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Dan's 150 Rebuild
- Thread starter Sobo's Reef
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That would put me at 4 tangs and 2 triggers. Lol little much isn't it?
Yeah let me just buy a $100+ tang and then give it to u Lol I want an Achilles tang I think k
I’m not sure how long those shrimp will last with the trigger. I have a blue throat, and use to have a very large coral banded. It use to be amusing watching the coral banded square off to the trigger. Those little claws would go way out, making him look big, as the trigger would come close. Well, I guess one night the shrimp wasn’t looking, and he was gone.
Yeah I assumed that, all seems to be well so far Lol.. The shrimp is an @$$ anyways lol
Stand is coming together so nicely!! Can't wait to set this tank up already lol
Some more updated shots of the stand
Slide out shelf for my doser
Slide out shelf for my doser
John when you did your manifold, which end is which? I can't grasp how the flow should run. Like should it go thru the sump, hit the return then go thru the manifold with the reactors and then into the DT? The way I have my GFO reactor now is I have it sucking up water from the first chamber and it spits it back out into the return chamber, skipping the fuge in the middle
Dan it looks like he has his return pump in the sump pushing water through the plastic hose through a hose barb adapter then goes through the three tees (the first two have closed valves and are open ended the third one is a feed to (presumably) a reactor of some sort the flow continues through the big main shutoff valve and another hose barb adapter and clear hose up into the DT. Once through the reactor it could either go back into the sump ( which I wouldn't do cause this water has been completely filtered) or back up to the DT. Either way works but sending it back into the sump would dilute the dirty water that is being filtered...
Sorry for stepping in john, I hope I got that right!
Sorry for stepping in john, I hope I got that right!
No that's exactly what I wanted to know. Like after it goes thru the reactor where does the feed line go? Obviously not back into the sump bc of what you said Doug. Maybe plumb it into the return to the DT?
Here's what I got so far
I was just on utube looking at homemade reactors. This guy has a pretty cool one that sits behind the tank at tank level. The manifold feeds the bottom of it and discharges at the top just over the top of the tank and goes directly into the tank from behind. He used 2 and 3 inch PVC for the whole thing with a couple of o rings and seals from a toilet/ tank connection. I think the title of the video was professional homemade carbon reactor but I am not sure. Should be pretty easy to find it was the second or third one on the list when I did my search. Looked like it might be difficult to pull the cartridge out to clean but I think only a slight mod would fix that. Damn thing looked 2 1/2' tall! Got my wheels spinning!
Hmm guess I'll wait til John chimes in and see how he has his reactor running
Other than the reactor going back into the return line I think it looks great! I am assuming the overflow dumps into the skimmer compartment. My setup is very similar except my overwork hits the refuge first, but only because the skimmer would not fit in the first chamber cause I botched the measurement!
Haha yeah its just a rough draft, gotta start planning now tho, less than 3 weeks away from moving day!!
From right to left: pump to manifold to DT.
First outlet is to my nano tank
Second was my biopellet reactor
Third is a GFO reactor
Last to the DT
All flow ends up back in my sump. The GFO effluent goes back to the return section, the nano and bio pellets go back to the skimmer section.
Before the manifold I did the same with the reactor. Grabbed from skimmer section returned to pump section. That was fine though with the manifold it kind of makes this impossible without using a second pump. Which kind of negates a big benefit of the manifold, less pumps.
I've got roughly 700gph to the DT and 300gph to the nano, the tiny bit of flow from the GFO getting recycled is really negligible.
So although you have it going return, reactor, return, its still doing its job with no problems at all? I dunno why I just feel that would never fully reach the DT bc its being constantly looped. I'm not saying yours doesn't work, I just can't wrap my head around it lol
Think of it this way. You have a 5 gal bucket full of water, fill it with 5 gal of your aquarium water. Take 3 gal and pour it into the aquarium, take 1.5 gal and pour it into the nano aquarium, and take 1/2 gal and run it through the GFO reactor. As you pour the water back where it belongs, it will be replaced with 4.5 gals of water from DT and nano via the skimmer section, and 1/2 gal from the GFO reactor. your back to 5 gal. Rinse, repeat. How much of that 1/2 gal is really getting recycled into the GFO. Does it even matter, as long as the water going into it has phosphate and the water coming out has none then it doing its job. That reactor should be cyclying several times your volume daily, and whether is gets dumped in the DT where it dilutes the dirty water or gets dumped in the return section where it dilutes the water doesn't matter.
For what its worth I have been runn ing this way for quite some time and I can't remember the last time I measured anything above .03 on the hanna meter.