New 225 Setup with Aquascaping Focus

[andrewsk]

Originally Posted by albert_dao

That thing looks rough!

I am setting it up this week. You should come over with your buddy when it is done so you can check it out.

I also have beer.....

[albert_dao]

Originally Posted by andrewsk

I am setting it up this week. You should come over with your buddy when it is done so you can check it out.

I also have beer.....

I don't drink, but I'll take you up on your "give all my stuff to Albert" offer.

[andrewsk]

Originally Posted by albert_dao

I don't drink, but I'll take you up on your "give all my stuff to Albert" offer.

You'll drink after I show you the bill for all this crap

[danny zubot]

Looking really good. Once you get some corals on those rocks it will fill out the tank nicely. Perhaps you'll be hosting the next frag swap?

[fishmanty]

Saw this tank today... wow, thats a setup I'll only dream about. I love it, nothing I'd changed about it.

Cept add a lion

It looks even better in person, a must see for sure.

Good work!


Ty

[andrewsk]

Thanks Ty,

Feel free to drop by anytime.

I am thinking about that lion

[SuperFudge]

Very Nice Andrew.

I am interested in using an ozone reactor myself, Ozone is hittin my skimmer pretty hard.

A few Questions for you,

What is the Media in the reactor ? Looks like vinyl or pvc chips of some sort.
Is the carbon chamber for the air intake to the ozonizer ? or is it to feed product water after the main reactor..removing residual ozone ?

I seen the other chambers you said the were for return water and return air, could you elaborate a little for me?

What is the third chamber you have there for ?

Thanks, Marc.

[andrewsk]

Fudge,

I REALLY like the reactor now that it is hooked up. Very good workmanship as well.



The way this works is that the reactor is kept at a constant pressure of 2 to 5 PSI and is basically dripped down the media which appears to be a shaved plastic of some sort. Could be PVC for sure. Here is a closeup. You can see the Ozone being injected into the top chamber where all the bubbles are.



What happens is the water starts to run into the container and the Ozone is pumped in until it reaches about 5 PSI, then the water is flushed out and through a chamber (the larger on on the far left of the pics in my previous post) that holds carbon and back into the tank. The air then gets jetted out into the Carbon Air filter (The thin one in the middle of the pictures in my previous post). I am sure you know this but you have to run the air through carbon to remove the ozone from getting into our breathing air

Not only does the pressure increase the efficency of the Ozone but the contact time is MUCH longer than a standard skimmer.

I was listening to an article on Talking Reef about contact time of ozone to be REALLY effective and they said it needed to be much longer that what a standard skimmer gives you. This reactor solves the problem.

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Originally Posted by Fudge

Very Nice Andrew.

I am interested in using an ozone reactor myself, Ozone is hittin my skimmer pretty hard.

A few Questions for you,

What is the Media in the reactor ? Looks like vinyl or pvc chips of some sort.
Is the carbon chamber for the air intake to the ozonizer ? or is it to feed product water after the main reactor..removing residual ozone ?

I seen the other chambers you said the were for return water and return air, could you elaborate a little for me?

What is the third chamber you have there for ?

Thanks, Marc.

[RobbAdams]

No updates in the lat two months?

Come on keith!

[andrewsk]

Finally an update.

Here are some completed aquascape shots. Now it's just waiting for the corals to grow in.











I just switched to ZeoVit and am seriously considering moving to a solaris LED system.

Ill try to give more frequent updates from now on .