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09-11-2011, 06:03 AM
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Water is in the tank!!! No leaks so far....now to figure out what to do with the wavey sea module, it works perfect when its apart but as soon as it goes back together it starts skipping...I think it is a lack of lube on the sealing surface between the two halfs unfortunately I do not know of a water safe lube.. oh yeah and I guess my snapper pump has the AO Smith motor so it sounds like I have a hot tub not a fish tank. Ah well I'll let it run for a couple of days, drain it and refill with salt water.
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09-14-2011, 04:56 AM
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So my reeflo snapper has developed another leak at the input shaft after only a couple days use so after talking with reflo today I will be shipping it to them to have the beaings in the motor replaced (if anything it should be silent as new), resealed and tested. The customer service at Reflo is great.
On a side note is there such thing as too much flow? I am tossing the idea around of having reeflo replace the impeller with dart impeller (since it will be there already) so instead of 2,200 gal/hr on the closed loop I could get 3,900 gal/hr, that would give me 47 turn overs per hour versus the current 33. Any thoughts this?
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09-14-2011, 01:40 PM
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Whats your flow?
http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/sho...highlight=flow 47x sounds good to me. I knew OA had seal kits but I had no idea about motor bearings and I don't see anything on their website. Bill, are you sure you're talking about the same thing?
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09-14-2011, 02:06 PM
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09-16-2011, 06:26 AM
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Thanks for the input guys unfortunately the pump is already in the mail. I will see about the impeller and wether or not it can just be replaced with the dart one to boost the performance.
I'm making a little more progress and tonight I started doing a little scaping now that the tank is full of salt water and up to temp. I will upload a couple photos tomorow. Last edited by 1eyedjyde; 09-16-2011 at 07:01 AM.
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09-16-2011, 07:47 PM
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Here are a couple shots of some preliminary rock work.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7697788...in/photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/7697788...in/photostream
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09-16-2011, 08:38 PM
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Speaking from experience here. You might want to try a peice of acrylic rather than the eggcrate. If you have alot of flow on the sandbed the eggcrate starts to get exposed. It sticks out like a sore thumb and looks really bad and if you suffer from even a little bit of OCD like most of us that have SW tanks it'll bug the crap out of you. I personally dont have anything other than sand on my tank bottom and have never had a problem and this is my 6th (i think) setup.
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09-17-2011, 03:46 AM
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Acrilic would be nice however the dollar figure on that stuff is pretty steep. I made my mind up about having something between the glass bottom and rock though a couple weeks ago when the bottom of the 29 gal tank blew out. I was also thinking of just trimming back the egg crate to the base of the rock so open areas, where sand might have a tendancy to get swept away, would be free from egg crate so it might not show up. Not too worried about having the rock fall on the glass, since the base rock is stable and any spindly stuff will eventually be epoxied in place, more just a percausion and to distribute the weight a little bit.
Ok and an update on the pump, so reflo is going to swap out the impeller for the Dart so my final flow numbers will be approximately 5600 gal/hr for 46 turn overs/hr. woo hoo. Any SPS will be happy there. Last edited by 1eyedjyde; 09-17-2011 at 03:50 AM.
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09-19-2011, 05:16 AM
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Here is a photo update of the scape.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7697788...n/photostream/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/7697788...in/photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/7697788...in/photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/7697788...in/photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/7697788...in/photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/7697788...in/photostream
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