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12-07-2004, 12:45 AM
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Reactor keeps plugging up!
Those of you who have calcium reactors, do you have any sort of a filter for your gravity feed line? My reactor keeps plugging up, and I'm assuming it's being plugged from the suction in the tank. how can I fix this?
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12-07-2004, 06:56 AM
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you can maybe use a darker colored host for your gravity feed ? ? ?
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12-07-2004, 09:15 PM
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Just goto a plumbing supply store that carries John Guest fittings or similar and mess around with the fittings that convert sizes from one side to the other ... I had to do the same thing as I had 1/4" tube on one side going to the reactor and 3/8 on the other going to the pump ... ended up with JG slip fit on one side and filed down the 3/8 mpt thread on the other side for the fitting to the small pump.
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12-07-2004, 10:31 PM
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late last night I took off my second chamber, and just had my main chamber going, and it started to syphon right away. Obviously there is a leak, but where would it be? I tried the soapy water and found no bubbles. Could packed media in the chamber stop a syphon?
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12-08-2004, 06:05 AM
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problem I run into with my gravity fed 1/4" tube is I sometimes get snails going into it. So I just take the pliers and give them the CRUSH treatment and all is fixed. I try to suspend my intake hose so it's floating in never never land so hopefully the wandering snails can't get onto it.
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