Thanks for doing all the grunt work Chin!

I won't be back to Vancouver until the evening of February 1st. Are you ok with me waiting that long to come by to pick up and pay?

Cool Chin thanks man let us know when to pay ya

Shipment Received
 

I've received the shipment and I will be spending a portion of my weekend spliting it up.

I will be in and around my place this weekend - I live in Surrey in the vicinity of 144 Street and 72 Avenue. Please call me to make appointment and I will send all the locals a PM with my two phone numbers and address information.
Although I am a very social person and I would love to show you my tanks, my wife is in the midst of doing report cards for her classes. Due to the high number of people I will be expecting to come over, I will respectfully ask that locals just come and pick it up. I will TRY to have change but please bring exact change otherwise I will gladly accept the implied commission fees.

Another option is I will be working in Richmond in the vicinity of Richmond Center Mall (Richmond City Hall) next week from Tuesday to Friday between the hours of 12-10 pm. If you want to pick it up in Richmond, please let me know via PM.


Everyone who required shipping, please send me a PM with your shipping address and shipping preference - your options are Greyhound or Canada Post.
Greyhound will be from station to station and I will give you the option to pay for delivery fees upon picking it up from the station.

Canada Post will be to your door and I will give you the final price after I've shipped it. All shipments will be standard mail delivery with insurance for tracking purposes.

Thanks
Chin Lee

Paid, I got my tracking number already.

Thanks a bunch!

ps: I sent you a little bit extra for all your hard work, I think others might want to do the same as Chin_Lee in reality actually lost money on all this if you consider his time and misc shipping expenses.

your a brown noser Ben :mrgreen: or you can be like me and send him the wrong amount :lol:

No I'm not.

You know how much work it is to package a whole bunch of stuff up, then ship it all?

You gotta find boxes, make sure everything is packaged up well for delivery, either input all the details on line, or spend an hour at the post office.

Crap, now I feel bad for not giving him even more.

Chin, I just sent a few more dollars your way.

Ben I was joking man, I think you took me serious there. :smile:

Picked mine up today. Thanks for doing all the running around & organizing for this group order. And yes, I think it is a GREAT idea to throw in a few extra $$ for all the work & time Chin put into saving all of US big bucks.

Anthony

Thanks all
 

hey thanks all. Extra $$ is greatly appreciated and really not expected.
I knew what I was getting myself into but I will restate my beliefs in that:
"Group buys are rewarding but not fun to organize" :lol:

thanks again Chin, appreciate all the extra work and effort on your part :)

WOW is Canada post fast.
chin sent out the stuff on the 28th and i just recieved the package in my mailbox today.
stuff looks good, i'll be changing out my media soon

thanks again Chin

ditto on that, I got mine today too!

thanks Chin!! YOU ROCK!!:mrgreen:

Dang...I just live across the river and I cant get to him......

Scott

wow that was fast. it just went out yesterday at noon!

scotty - wait for the snow melt and then come over. no worries

Got mine today! Thanks so much for doing this Chin.

Looks like Canada Post is good for something!

Seems so! :biggrin:

How can you tell when someone has little ones. When your package comes in a Hungry Hippo box. :lol:

Although we had a laugh over that and the names on the box, Mike Asmodeus & Doug Waterfield, the packaging and shipping of the phosphate remover is much appreciated.

Thank-you Chin. :mrgreen:

No problem
 

well thanks to you guys, my kids Hungry Hippos have lost all their marbles :)

Random bump for happiness! My reef is now almost algae free! It has taken quite a lot of the GFO to do it, the algae tried to return twice, but is now on the run!

All praise to GFO and Two Little Fishies!!!

I shoulda hopped on this wagon...anyone order more than they really wanted?? I'll buy a pound or two off someone.

No eh? Haha! I didn't think so...

Update To Phosban
 

I just wanted to post my own experience with this material.
EQUIPMENT:
I am using a modified phosban reactor
http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=37940
which is using a Mag7 for flow through the chamber. The flow through the chamber is dependent on the amount of media I put into the chamber as the resistance increases therefore decreasing the flow.

REFUGIUM:
Around the same time, I also plumbed in a 40g refugium with a lot of chaeto, caleurpa taxiflora, and gracillaria. At the bottom of the refugium, I placed 1" of Mineral Mud and .5" of sand.

PREVIOUS MEDIA:
Before the group buy I had purchase a 1200g of TLF Phosban (for $90 which translate to 2.6 lbs at $34/lb.......... :surprise:)
I put in about 1 lb of TLF Phosban into my reactor and I rinsed it out with fresh water. I then let it run for about 3-4 days, and the red dust did not stop. I was not able to get the red dust to stop and a good amount of this red dust began to show up on my rocks. I was lazy and didnt' do anything about it.
Hair algae growth slowed but still quite abundant.

GROUP BUY MEDIA:
Soon after the group buy, I changed out the media and placed a sponge filter on the output inside the chamber. Media was rinsed and put inline. The sponge trapped a lot of bigger particles but not the smaller particles. I have now placed a fliter sock on the output hose of the reactor and this sock needs to be rinsed out weekly. THE DUST DOES NOT STOP coming out.
Hair algae had died off drastically by this point.

A month later, I changed the media again and hair algae is GONE!

RESULTS:
The combination of this media and refugium has definitely snuffed out my hair algae problem. It also helped to have so much of this media and being able to use it liberally.
Since I started putting a filter sock on the output of the reactor, the red dust is no longer visible on my rocks - so no harm done.

WHY DUST:
I believe my reactor design is the cause of the red dust but I cannot confirm this until I modify it. Unlike the phosban reactors, my reactor design does not elevate the media off the bottom and disperse the flow through a diffuser plate. Currently my media sits at the bottom of the chamber and the velocity and pressure of the water flow to keep the media fluidized is very direct. I believe that this causes the media to collide with each other too much force causing the red dust to form.
I believe if I were to put a diffuser plate at the bottom and let the diffused flow through the plate (similar to the Phosban reactors), I will have less red dust.

I should note that the red dust started with the TLF Phosban and continued with the Group Buy Phosban.

Does anybody else run into any "red dust" problems?

chin i had the same problem my aglae that i have been fighting since dec06 is finally going away . and i do get some red dust i dont rinse i fill and run about a gallon of water through thereactor and then it goes away.

I run the output of my phosban reactor directly into a filter sock. Before running the output into the sump I run about a gallon or two into a bucket to get out the major particulates and then turn the reactor off to let everything settle, then carefully ramp up the flow to where I want it. Anything that makes it through the sock is likely to settle in the sump. I've never had issues with any red dust in the main tank. Theres so much algae and particulates that build up on the inside of the sock it makes it hard to determine just how much red dust is making it into the sock. I would say it settles down after the first couple of hours.

My skimmer and my sump has a nice layer of red scum on it, and my clear tubing has turned a strange shade of crimson. I attribute this to putting far too much flow into my reactor at first. I as well run the output into a sock - which catches the big stuff.

I haven't had success with my hair algae yet, am trying a few methods (livestock, GFO, refugium, plucking). I will be ramping up my GFO output and hopefully this will disappear soon - I want to stock with corals!