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Delphinus · #1 03-02-2009, 04:43 PM

Oh wow, you've gotten a nice long run with that probe. Uh .. don't listen to me then! Although that doesn't really surprise me. Generally speaking, doing whatever the opposite of what I do, is usually the better choice.

However, I would just say ix-nay on the RO/DI. I bought one of the first units and mine was defective from the get-go. Speaking with Lou Dell at American Marine, he suggested I soak the probe overnight in fresh water, try again the next day, and then call back and let him know if it worked. So I put the probe in RO/DI, followed through, and it still didn't work. (It turned out the problem was a bad solder in the controller unit, eventually I sent it in, Pinpoint fixed it and sent it back.) But when I called to say it didn't work, he asked "Did you use RO/DI? Tell me you didn't use RO/DI, because if you did, you just wrecked your probe." I said "But you just said freshwater, I just assumed RO/DI was the trick." So he said, "yeah OK, I should have warned you. I'll send you a new probe." That was nice of him to send a new probe. So anyhow, according to my conversation with Lou Dell, "don't use RO/DI to store these probes, use tapwater." For what it's worth.

Man I miss using mine. But it was something like $220 to order a new probe .. dang that stings.

Gizmo · #2 03-03-2009, 02:28 PM

I wonder why RO/DI would be bad for the probes, good thing i've been using tap water

Shipment of salt and sand came yesterday. Took 50 bags to give me a 3-4" sand bed

I'm thinking i'll be painting the back of the tank black to match.

Delphinus · #3 03-03-2009, 04:44 PM

I guess RO/DI has a strong affinity to strip out ions...

Black sand, black overflows .. seems a no-brainer to go black on the background.

I have that combo on a FW tank and it's really sharp. Only thing is in a reef, the rocks shed so much crud, you'll probably be doing a lot of vacuuming on your weekly chores. Hard to beat the look of a tank like that though!