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Fascinating..........that's one side effect that I never would have guessed.....so when they fire up in reverse does it cause water to splash up and over the glass at all?

No, the back of the pump inhibits that. The reverse flow isn't all that great either, it's not like it's going to suck in a fish or something. What a bummer! For a day I thought I was like some kind of briliant modifier guy, but it turns out that I suck.

LOL......how about if you shortened the air line a bit, then added some kind of rubber washer or something on the other side of the impeller to cushion the clacking on start up?

In fact I think mine came with a rubber bushing that fit over the bottom of the impeller (I lost them down the drain wile cleaning)

Hmm, it might just work. I've since lost mine too, if it came with them at all but I think I might have something that would work.

The weekest link in my system up until now has been my piddly little refugium / joke of a frag tank. Well, no longer. I picked up an old hagen tank from the basement of the LFS and fixed it up. I took the top trim off and added glass bracing instead, then I drilled it to house a 1.5" bulk head. It's 30x12x15" and fits quite nice in the cabinet right beside my sump.

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Holy crap there were some serious micro bubbles floating through this tank. Solution: I have an old overflow box with built in baffles. I hung it on the inside back of the tank and ran the drain into it. The results were about 90% lesss bubble, which is tolerable for a frag tank.

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I still might mess around with the frag rack a bit to create more room for the abundance of frags I plan on making soon. I just hope that the 4 T5's I have over the tank will be enough to sustain my SPS frags.

Danny

Pretty innovative dude. Liking this tank more and more with each gadget add on:razz:

I know, when will it stop eh? I had to do this one though, the little bin I had before was a detritus trap and didn't have enough room in it.

Yah I just finished reading back on this thread, that new frag tank is alot better than the one that you had....kinda uses up alot more space underneath now so that may limit future toys but it looks alot more presentable and is much more functional.

nice looking frag tank man, one heck of a step up from the last one. Were did you move your macro algae to? it was in the old one wasn't it?

I don't think you should have any issue with SPS frags under thows 4 T-5's

The Cheato is still in there. Some is in the overflow box and some is to the right of it.

Koralia running backwards - mod fix

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Originally Posted by danny zubot (Post 470647)

Thanks everyone. I still have plans for a few more bar items, like one of those hanging glass holder things.

As for the Koralia mod; It's pretty simple. Normally there's about an inch gap between the impeller and the end of the berring shaft. So if your Koralia is facing down the impeller could slip out a bit, causing it to bounch around upon activation right. Well, just cut a piece of rigid water filter line 1" long and place it in there. As shown in the pic with the yellow piece of tubing.
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Hey Danny,
Here's the links to two pages that talk about modding a MaxiJet and how to keep it from starting up backwards.
On reefchili - simplebuild there is a questions page
Common Questions that has this description of the stopper:

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What is the stopper and how do I use it ?

Because the maxi jet runs on alternating current (AC) power it can spin both left or right and will do so randomly
when you first plug it in. if it starts going the right way then perfect but half the time it will start going the wrong
way and end up sucking water in the front and blowing it out the fins on the side. This is where the stopper
comes in. the stopper is simply a piece of acrylic rod shoved through the side of the housing. I drill a 3/16” hole
about a 1/8” below the top of the housing (just under the cap) and glue a ½”-1" piece of 3/16” acrylic rod. What
happens when the pump starts the wrong way is it pushes the whole impeller up towards the cap when this
happens the prop will slam into the stopper (acrylic bar) and bounce back the other way and start running in the
right direction. This is extremely easy to implement and works very well. Some people have found with the
octura props that you don’t need a stopper because the ends of the prop extend up and actually slam into the
centering cap itself. I personally always use the stopper bar because it works so well , costs almost nothing and
takes about 20 seconds to install . Mother always said “if it an’t broke don’t fix it” : )

Oh yeah, don;t try any of the links to www.mjmods.com, they don't work?!?

There is also dhnguyen's DIY build on ReefCentral The "Hitchhiker's Guide" to the Maxi-Stream mod that goes into a bunch of detail on the MaxiJet mod, but he has a different take on how to make a stopper and there's a bunch of pic's on these pages of how and where he puts the stopper.

I think maybe a mod of one or the other of these stoppers could work for Koralia's and let us use the wavemakers.

Vic

Bump, update to follow soon.

Well holy crap!!

Welcome back Danny......looking forward to seeing the update :biggrin:

That looks fantastic.... and I don't mean the calendar!!

Gives me ideas for my own bar downstairs. Might have to modify it for a possible Sea Horse tank.... when the wife is not looking :twised:

I've also added some Booze to the bar and the wife got me a calender to complete the "man" look.

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Bump ... is it soon yet?? :)

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Originally Posted by danny zubot (Post 575430)

Bump, update to follow soon.

Helloooooo? *knock knock knock* this thing on?

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Originally Posted by danny zubot (Post 469946)

I also added some Booze to the bar and the wife got me a calender to complete the "man" look.

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f3...t/IMGP3850.jpg

would be more of a "Man look" if it wasn't pink :mrgreen:

nice build though

Steve