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    Pressure booster pump

    in General Discussion

    Now that I have very good water pressure (85 psi).  I made about 160g water so far and I can see all the DI color is already changed.... The TDS going in is range from 250-450.    What should I do?  just keep changing my DI? 

    That's a big range of TDS out of your membrane, how old is the membrane?  I am not on well water but I get 1 TDS out of my membrane consistently after I flush it.

    Store Front!? We Want YOUR Feedback!!!

    in Exotic Reef Creations

    I would come visit occasionally if you had a storefront, would be more likely to visit in Frederick than Gaithersburg.  I've looked at your corals and prices online and at meetings and been interested but just don't want to bother you at home to buy a couple of corals so I've never been by.  Storefronts are tough though, both of the decent stores in Gaithersburg closed in the last few years but they were both mainly freshwater with a little saltwater.

    Not crying wolf but help.

    in New to the Hobby

    Don't trust the setting on the heater, they are usually bad.  If your thermometers both read the same temperature trust the thermometers and keep lowering the setting on the heater until the thermometers gets down around 78 or so.

    Biopellets-who's running them?

    in General Discussion

    So how come if you cut the pipe square with the bottom you need to take out the media plate? How do you prevent back siphoning of the pellets then?

    Taking out the media plate sends the flow in all directions, my water in comes from a manifold which is higher than the reactor, maybe some backsiphon but they don't get to the manifold because I haven't seen any appear anywhere else

    Biopellets-who's running them?

    in General Discussion

    If you just cut off the tube square to the bottom with no lower media plate, then no need for a biopellet nozzle.  The nozzle is mainly to prevent back siphoning the pellets into the pump if the power goes out.  I doubt the nozzle is the reason for the tubeworms, more likely due to the amount of growth from the pellets.  I have a lot of fish, so I have to add a considerable amount of mysis, cyclopeeze and SA pellets (4x/day).

     

    That's what I did, I cut it off about 1" above the bottom and took out the lower media plate, I have the screen in the top of the reactor to keep any floaters in the reactor.  Have a nice even rolling of the pellets in the reactor.  Always seeing pods and tubeworms in my reactor.

    Biopellets-who's running them?

    in General Discussion

    I have mostly BRS biopellets, probably some ATB and Warner pellets still in there somewhere, in a Avast Marine MR5-18 reactor, at least that's what I seem to remember it to be, don't see it on the site anymore was a taller model of their MR5.  I just shortened the tube a little like instructed by Dan for the biopellets and they move well.  I get some tubeworms in my reactor but nothing like the concentration in Justins.  Does the biopellet nozzle make that much of a difference?

    Crystal Sea Bio-Assay Salt Question

    in General Discussion

    Thanks Origami, I'm going to try and dig up some old discussion threads if I can. 

     

     

     

     

    Would you ever go back to Crystal Sea bioassay? When using the CSB, did you have to use addition supplements to bring up cal,mag,etc.

    I don't remember adding anything to it to adjust the levels but I don't remember what the salt mixed up at.  I'm not sure what I'm going to do when I run out of the red sea salt, I've been very happy with the way it mixes and it's levels but it's a pain to get, I might give Crystal Sea Bio-Assay another chance but I will be very careful to read the box, if I remember correctly it's a yellow box and the regular is a blue box.

    Crystal Sea Bio-Assay Salt Question

    in General Discussion

    Big Country, thanks for your experience! What kind of setup did you have at the time fish only/reef?

    Looking for more people with experience or opinions on this salt. I like the fact that there's no dechlorinator, caking agents,

    and some of the metals found in salt mixes.

     

    Reef tank

    Crystal Sea Bio-Assay Salt Question

    in General Discussion

    · Edited by Big Country

    I used the Crystal Sea Bio-Assay for awhile and didn't have any problems with it, my tank did pretty good in fact.  My LFS sold me a box of the regular Crystal Sea, I noticed the box didn't say bio-assay but they assured me it was, don't know what happened but my tank had a reaction.  If you are looking for the scientific paper it used to be posted on Roozens website since they push Crystal Sea Bio-Assay.  There for awhile the Bio-Assay was just too difficult to find locally.

     

      I switched back to IO after that, am currently using Red Sea Salt but it's a PITA to find locally and I'm tired of UPS destroying salt buckets so going back to IO after my last buckets gone.

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