Well the Vectra l1 just didn't have enough strength to power my biopellet reactor properly and return water to the tank. A recirculating reactor would allow me to lower the flow rate and take some pressure off the vectra. All the recirculating ones for a tank 300 gallons or moerllre I could find were $500 dollars plus. Which honestly I find to be grossly overpriced. Not opting to pay that , I built my own . At full retail in all the items I needed to build one I have $179 in parts. Note the most expensive items were the 5*18 inch bubble magus 2nd chamber for a calcium reactor $64 from Billy's reef connection, and the sicce 1.5 pump $72 from BRS. With that being said I got a little over $10 back from the items from BRS in points . So figure $169 is the cost. I could have went cheap on the pump and came in under a hundred , but I opted to copy Geo's version and use a quality pump. To keep the cost down I used white PVC like the rest of my build. The mods were all done fairly easily, drilled and tapped the reactor to accept push connect also added two to the skimmer to feed the biopellets directly and the calcium reactor effluent. All in all, very easy and I saved a little over $350!
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