jolt
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Welcome to Austin. Recognize your handle from R2R, it will be great to have you on ARC!
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Dang, I was thinking that was some concentrated super sauce you were dripping into your tank Ty!
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Hah, Isaac. I might have guessed you would be all over that! I'm impressed
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Yeah, I thought that was pretty slow, but you know how cautious I am. I will crank everything up slowly as I get the feel for it. Those graduated beakers are very cool. I'm getting one! Will make me feel like a scientist at work!
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I turned on the CO2 and opened the needle valve on the frag tank CaRx a couple of days ago. I measured 5ml per minute effluent rate and set around 3 seconds between bubbles. Set the max and min at 7.70 and 7.65. My alk consumption is pretty low. The previous week I used .06 dkh. It seems that the CaRx is keeping up with it at this point, but I could just be fooling myself. This is what the behavior has been on the CaRx pH for the last few days. If anyone spots concerns here PLEASE SPEAK UP, I'm a newb ...
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I think the idea of my credits cards holding up the tank is hilarious. Perhaps because, in a way, it's absolutely already the case ...
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It will require leveling a little bit, but I have not done it yet
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I think it's a nuclear event Jeff
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Aaaaand LIGHTS! Gonna punch a little hole in the wall to run the cables through ....
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Nobody has any thoughts on my CaRx Ph drifting lower? (see question in previous post) Marathon day yesterday with the pvc gluing. It's ready for a leak test!
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So with the needle valve on my calcium reactor closed, and the solenoid also closed the Ph has drifted down from 7.88 to 7.66 Should the Ph get lower even without C02 bubbles going in? I do have the manifold open to the reactor, the circulation pump on, and the effluent dripping about 60 drops per minute ....
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You might consider a blastomussa if you want some red color
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Looks very good to me!
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I also like version 2
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For the next glacial update, the new frag tank has its first fish resident. A red head solon wrasse: And, no pictures, but there are now about a dozen ACTUAL FRAGS in the frag tank ... Yesterdays parameters in the frag tank: Calcium 410 Alk 8.12 Mag: 1275 (will be dosing it up a bit) Nitrate 0.5 (been dosing small amounts of Seachem Flourish) Phosphate 0.02 Calcium reactor is not dialed down below 7.9 Ph right now, I'm just kind of watching it's behavior and my Apex programming for it, so I've just been manually topping off with BRS 2 part ...
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I have a 36" BML 14K. It's in great shape. Not sure what it should sell for. PM me an offer if interested.
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Good luck, it's the unexplainable stuff that drives me nuts!
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Ok, looks like I ought to rinse next time. Basically there is a lot of dust settled on the bottom of the chamber, so don't really want to let that build up too much over time. Pressure gauges did not budge over night during the leak test. I'm pretty happy about that, so now it's on to programming the Apex!
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Ok, here it is outside the stand in 'test mode'
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Ok, question for the experienced CaRx folks out there. I am using the reborn media and neo-mag. I mixed it in the reactor 9:1 as directed. But the water in the chamber looks really cloudy. Do you guys rinse your media before loading the reactor chamber?
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There is *some* progress, but not as much as I had hoped. I have the drains and most of the return dry fit now. Waiting on my return pump to come in (hopefully today!) to finish the return plumbing. At this point I'm planning to run a manifold off a dedicated pump rather than my return pump, but I haven't sorted out which pump to run the manifold. The plan is to finish the drain and return lines and leak test them, then later deal with the manifold. This one is overexposed, but you get the idea ...
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Thanks Gig 'em !
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Haha - my sump should arrive friday , I got a ton of stuff over black friday, and I am planning to have a "light rack hanging" and "plumbing fest" over the christmas break. I've pretty much finished the electrical area, but my cell phone takes really crappy pictures! I got this SS Matheson regulator for the CaRx: And I have 8 fish in quarantine for my frag tank, and I have 5 test frags in the frag tank now. I'll do a big photo loaded update by new years! Thanks for asking Jimbo
