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    Questions about plywood only stand

    in Do It Yourself

    when you make the sides of the stand out of plywood, go and make a frame out of 2x4 for the top and screw them to the plywood and glue them as well, then put your plywood top on and no need to worry abour plywood bowing as the weight is now distrubted to the plywood sides hope this helps

    Worst day as an aquarist ever...

    in General Discussion

    so sorry to hear this....I like you did not qt until I got a fish from a so called clean supplier and killed alot of my fish like you....I now do a qt on new fish just in case....let us know when you start looking for new fish and I am sure we as members will be able to come up with something

    Build Advice on Aquarium Stand

    in General Discussion

    per engineering specs you will have around 1280 pounds total in weight with the tank give or take several pounds..with a 2x4 on edge of a span of 3 foot its limits are around 1200pounds with them being on 16 inch centers...If it were mine I would go with 2x6 to be safe...you are only talking about aniother 2 inches of height if you need to keep your height right under the stand for plumbing...

     

    Also in your picture with the tank sitting on the stand you will need to run a brace down under the 2x6 where the tank ends and run a header just like the front is...if you want to get away from any supports in the middle from left to right just place 2 2x6 together on the front and back side...hard to explain without showing you....

    Who sells Calcium Chloride Flakes and Magnesium Flakes locally?

    in Do It Yourself

    Ok my supplier called me back and according to him the big difference between prestone and food grade is the food grade is more pure calcium than the prestone is...he said the prestone can contain as much as 100 different impurities that they will only list if there is a certain number of them detected when the batch is run...food grade filters these out as such you get pure calcium with very little to no impurties in it

    Who sells Calcium Chloride Flakes and Magnesium Flakes locally?

    in Do It Yourself

    ok according to the msds sheets on prestone drive way heat it is only 90 -92% calcium chloride with other additives included in it...calcium chloride food grade msds sheet shows only calcium chloride and no other additives...I have a call into my calcium supplier to find out the difference in food grade and prestone drive way heat calcium...will pass info on when I get it...

    Who sells Calcium Chloride Flakes and Magnesium Flakes locally?

    in Do It Yourself

    I have checked in my area for dow flakes with no luck at all...the dow flakes are food grade which is different from any other calcium you find for sale...I can get 50 pounds of cailcuim chloride for 10. buck a bag but will not work as it is not food grade....I have only been able to find on the internet for sale nothing local in my area...let me know if you find any in your area

    Mag Problems

    in General Discussion

    Ok here is the system

     

    180 gallon reef ready with 55 sump

    running gfo in reactor, carbon in bag in high flow in sump,

     

    I have been dosing alk with the two part diy from on line....

     

    tested my mag and it was low so I started dosing the mag for the 2 part, well my mag has gone from 900 down to not reading on the test kit from red sea. I have tested the kit with my other tank and it is ok, tested my fresh saltwater and it is 1100

     

    cal-470

    ph-7.9-8.01

    nitrate-0

    nitrite-0

    pho-0

     

    I have no idea what is causing my mag to drop in my system so any help please

    Plumber with a plumbing question...

    in General Discussion

    you are getting air locked inside the line....from the cavation going on as long as that keeps happening you will keep the air bubbles no matter how much you throttle it down....that is why I stayed away from hooking anything to my return lines or intake lines for that reason alone alot of people had problems with it in the beggining and I did not want to fool with getting it just right....you can do it, it will just take some adjusting on your part like stopping the water from sucking air back into the lines....

    PH Dropping

    in General Discussion

    Ok checked Mag and it is under 840 so it is very low....I have the mixture ready for the mag to dose I will need to raise this slowly like everything else right....over several days

    PH Dropping

    in General Discussion

    Will check my mag in a few...

     

    I have tested my ph with my apex and a new red sea test kit to make sure my apex was right....all other tests are only a few months old....

    tank has been up for over a year now

    not running a calcium reactor

    dosing the 2 part DIY using baking soda and dow flakes for the cal....

    PH Dropping

    in General Discussion

    Ok I have been fighting my PH for some time now....

     

    My parms

    Sal:1.025

    Cal:460

    Alk:2.0

    PH:7.89 to 8.01

     

    so I have been dosing Alk to bring it up to 2.8 but have been unsuccessfull in doing so....I am dosing 4 oz a day and it is still dropping back to 7.9....

    I have a gfo running and carbon in sock in high flow area of sump...

    My new saltwater checks at Cal 460, Alk 2.8....did a water change today and checked my Alk and it is still on the low side....

    I guess I need to start dosing Kalk to help bring my ph up where I want it to be of 8.2 to 8.3....

     

    any suggestion

    DIY Leak Detector for Apex

    in Do It Yourself

    Anything that has good conductivity between the two leads would work.

     

    thanks alot....I am going to be working on some of these this weekend....how many can u put in a series.... I would like to do 4 of them for my skimmer, sump and ato.....

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