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12-03-2005, 08:12 PM
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When I saw the one you are building on Reef central I made one. It does work well....but the one problem I found is on the down draft side , after a few months the substrate will compact and you will get a reduced flow. There was enuf reduction for an air bubble to form and I could see the water just dripping through.
So I built a new one with these plans, also from reef central http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh...hreadid=587186 It works well 
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12-20-2005, 05:48 PM
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Its all finished and running. I still have to tune it in, that will take a couple of days or more of monitoring to get it just right. It appears to be working fine though. I ended up going with the Eheim 1048 pump. I got the tank from J&L as it was way cheaper than anything I found locally, plus I was ordering the rest of the equipment from them anyway. The gasket material is a silicone baking sheet from Canadian Tire I bought for $9.95 (nice green colour too). It is very pliable and seals perfectly and there is enough left to make 2 more gaskets.
 You can see in this picture the space constrainst I had which dictated the smaller size of the reactor.  A couple of detail shots of the plumbing. The water is fed from a valve tapped into my return line form the sump. The return goes into the refugium. 
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I retired and got a fixed income but it's broke. Ed _______________________________________ 50 gallon FOWLR, 10 gallon sump. 130 gallon reef, 20 gallon sump, 10 gallon refugium. 10 gallon quarantine. 60 gallon winter tank for pond fish. 300 gallon pond with waterfall.
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