Ca Reactor built tonight
 

well I did a wet run tonight and eveerything held. I think my feed pump might be a little small but I will play with that when i install it.

http://members.shaw.ca/stircrazy/ca/flow.jpg
http://members.shaw.ca/stircrazy/ca/all.jpg

the pics are befor I had it filled all the way.

Steve

What to use to seal the flange on the top of my reactor?
 

I know this is a litte old but, Steve,
What did you use to seal the flange at the top of the reactor.

Tony(Delphinius) and I just finished our copy's of Dj88's design, but bigger!
I tried thin pond liner that was smooth on one side and kinda textured on the other but it did not work!

Please fill us in!
Thanks

Jonathan, Steve's not around tonight, but I believe he has an O ring on the reactor. I use O rings on all my stuff and it works great. And unlike a gasket, you don't need to pry the flanges apart to fill/clean it.

yup, "O" ring.. its the only way to go. just get it sized so it barly fits on the inside of your bolts so they will act as a guide to prevent it from disforming.

Steve

Steve,

How is the reactor working? I have been having problems with my recirc flow. I had to loose the floss I had in above my screen at the bottom, just get too much silt and it would plug right up. I'm using an Ehiem and it's clean as can be.

Lee

seams to be working good. I have a open cell sponge at the bottom andit hasn't been plugging up at all.. I can see whare filter floss would be way to fine though..

Steve

Steve,

I think I'm having the same problem (Low Recirc flow) with no floss only a "screen". My best guess, is I have lots of fine sediment mixed in the media. Thats what I found last time when I had to remove the floss. Now maybe I need to remove all the media and give it a rinse to keep only the large particles.

Or need a MAG5 pump to power through all this. I think an up flow would be much better than this design, but how to keep the pump primed??

Lee