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02-13-2010, 08:10 PM
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i saw a healthy selection of orings at Lordco if you have one nearby
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02-13-2010, 10:20 PM
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Large and difficult sized o-rings are sometimes expensive and hard to find. In the past I purchased the required OD o-ring material off the roll and cut/glued the size to fit.
Not sure if this method helps but it worked great for what I was doing.
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#193
02-14-2010, 03:41 AM
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Just to give you guys a heads up.
using pellets since Dec 30. the cheato colony totally collapsed yesterday, looks like there is some nutrient depletion going on. Also noticing hair algae collapsing as well (noticeably easier to grab and dispose of the hair algae). jmtcw
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02-14-2010, 07:59 AM
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My one day update. I emptied my skimmer cup yesterday and now i notice the color is dark brown instead of dark green that i used to get. My nitrate is reading at 15, will update the reading after one week.
So to solve the leaking problem i have to tilt the reactor a bit so any leaking will go into the sump. The same thing happens to my other reactor :-( I use both reactors for pellets now, 500ml on each. For carbon, I just put in a bag and put it into my filter sock.
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02-16-2010, 02:23 AM
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I am seeing some real changes now... Algae on glass is dead and just hanging on, I am not touching it, as I don't want to pollute water anymore, letting the fish and cleaning crew clean things up. Some areas of rock that had fine algae do not anymore, the algae is dead and is brownish and just hanging on. Again letting the fish and cleaning crew clean things up.
The skimmers are going crazy, lots of skimmate and the days of green tinged skimmate is also gone. The color is brown to dark brown, again an indication of no live algae. So, today I took one step further, since I am using a large Deltec Fluidizer with MJ 1200, I had room left inside. So I now am running approx. 1.5L of NP BioPellets along with my current 1.5L of Zeolites. I still have new Zeolites in bags, so will keep running them, but once I have used them up, I am considering the next step to be removing the ZeoRX. On a sad note: I have had a mandarin since pretty well the beginning of my tank setup, it has been about 5 days now and I have not seen him. So after about 1.5 years I think he fell victim to a crab, mantis or maybe is in my right side overflow (however I am unable to check it as it is against the wall). He was beautiful, rest in peace if you are gone.
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02-16-2010, 03:32 AM
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02-16-2010, 03:46 AM
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Backorder status....
New order of Biopellets arriving later this week; however, we have very few 500ml bags so anyone looking to order will have to go with the 1000ml instead. Better value anyway. Cheers!
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