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Build is looking good Jim!

Thanks! I made a 5G bucket of weak kalkwasser and forgot to close the tube on the peristaltic pump. I went to the movies and managed to siphon 5G of kalk into the tank. Yay! Pretty cloudy, mostly just undissolved calcium, and the skimmer is going nuts pulling it out. The fish and corals I can...

I added a new shrimp goby from AO to the biocube to replace the one that died a while back. The new one is a large pink spotted goby and the obnoxious watchman goby has given him no guff! He immediately moved into one of the existing holes. The goby-less candy cane pistol has been trying to get...

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Ca Reactor is online. Took a few moments to remove about a half gallon of hair algae mats from the substrate. All the tangs and urchins will not ever get through that; some manual removal is required. Added a crown conch from Pet Safari yesterday. The price was right and I figure he'll be happy...

The bubble counter from ebay seller Spankyaquatics was a success. It's not the same size or design, but because the threads are the same it screwed right onto my regulator. The reactor is running, just need to get it dialed in. I'm using the micro ball valve to regulate the drip for now, if it...

Bubble counter on the CO2 regulator is cracked and leaks under pressure. Attempt to repair with weldon unsuccessful. ordered replacement bubble counter.

The calcium reactor repair was successful. I glued a new fitting into the drilled out hole with Weldon16. I recreated all the plumbing in schedule 80 so it should actually be stronger. I was quite jazzed to find I could locate my 1/8" tap and matching 11/32 drillbit, last used four years ago...

I'm linking this thread into my thread so I can find it again. It's going to be time soon to redesign my kalk reactor. Going to add a quick realease to the top, and drill and tap the sides for a small external pimp to replace the magnetic stirrer...

The 1000W heater with the Ranco controller is definitely kicking butt now. Easily maintaining 78°F during this cold snap (for those who don't want to read the whole thread, my sump and backend are in an unheated built in garage, which runs about 50° on days like this. I got the Weldon16 glue I...

Ryan I'll take the lot, swing by the next time you're around or give me a call.

I bought one from PA that had the cords already wired. It had a long grey cable with a darker grey tip kind of badly silliconed on there. The instructions had the warning about not getting it wet and mentioned that chillers have a kind of a dry probe chamber you could stick it in.

Set up my new Ranco heater controller with the 1000W heater. It started to get cold in tha garage and the tank dropped to 76F. The big heater works fast. One thing that held me up was the instructions with the controller stated to not get the temperature probe wet! For an aquarium! So rather...

Is that what happens when you bang your head on the keyboard? Oh wait, google is my friend. HAH!!

Well I snapped the pvc lower spout off my calcium reactor. I dremeled the remains out of the hole and tapped it to 3/4", have some revised plumbing parts and Weldon 16 on the way. Pooh. The new skimmer is skimming away. It's interesting. The new (Beckett) skimmer is better at removing...

Large nice one. I don't need a tank or regulator, anyone have a good one kicking around you want to sell?

I had bought a JBJ True-Temp 1000W heater/controller package before. The controller has turned out to be a real piece of crap. The temperature probe failed once, and having replaced it the controller can't maintain a temperature. One hint that it's a bad product is that the 1000W heater has a...

Added a Kole tang from AO to work on algae. He was initially hassled by the purple tang in there (slight chasing, not the world-class abuse a PBT can dish out) but the old mirror trick distracted the purple for a while and now they are mostly getting along. Kole is doing his Kole thing, kissing...

Thanks guys, I just got done with the shop-vac in the garage, adjusted it just a little too high after I started getting skimmate. Greedy I guess. ! I think the tank is looking much better already. Thinking about a few pounds of fresh live rock to get the microfauna cranked up. The wife is...