Micah

7 minutes ago, Cobalt said:

Hah, I assume you were nudging me 🙂 So I have my reefer 525 setup at the new house, but it came with a skimmer, albeit a pretty basic one. The pump has is super loud so I just ordered a new impeller. If that doesn't fix the vibration issue, I just might take you up on this.

Hehe.  Was I that obvious?  Alrighty. :). I'll try and keep the dust off of it. 

This is still available!  Anybody done sitting on their hands? :)

Yay for a rebounding tank!!

Lots of messages.  I'll mark this as sold. Looks like a few of you were at the same time.  Gotta pick favorites!  Haha.

Cage match?

Some rock that I've treated with muriatic and bleach.  I didn't end up using all of it, so it's free!

Must take all. Bonus bin!

SW Portland, PM for deets

There is a tail spot pair at cuttlefish as of yesterday.  Super cute.  Call first. 

Woohoo!!  It's been a surprisingly lucky day/year, all things considered.

This light is in perfect working condition.  Like new.  Used for a short while (couple of months), then decided to get something a little bigger.  

Amazing little light with a lot of punch for tanks 10gal and smaller.

Asking 175 for the light and controller.  

Sounds like vermetids or spirobid snails.  If they are small and white, they are likely the latter and are fairly harmless.   Impossible to get rid of in my experience.  

This is still available! 

13 minutes ago, The ReefBox said:

Sniper program wins again

Pew pew!

I am a supporting member!   WOOT WOOT!

SOLD!  Gimme your paypal addy.

Hello folks! Got this skimmer with my build and realized I made a huge error and bought a skimmer that's a little too small for my needs.   I have since upgraded to the exact thing in a bigger model.  Needless to say, this thing has seen very little runtime and is clean as a whistle.    This is a crazy good deal for an essentially brand new skimmer.   Additionally, my tank is sterile - I'm using the full humblefish method for quarantine.  Corals, snails, shrimp, crabs, rocks, sand, and of course fish are all quarantined for months before going in.  There's zero disease anywhere.  So if you're worried about mean-nasties hiding in the recesses of this pump, there's almost no possible way that could happen. 

Anyways, I'm asking 420 or best offer.  I'm somewhat flexible, but please be respectful.  here's the original product page if you need info about the skimmer:

https://www.coralvue.com/elite-150int-super-cone-protein-skimmer

Let me know,

Micah

Carbon will remove it, but not entirely and very slowly.  A better method is to empty the tank entirely and clean fully.  I clean my quarantine tanks between cycles with bleach and rinse them super good.  

What is your quarantine process going to look like?

I had to turn mine off because nitrates were too low.... So, if you have high nitrate issues, this is a great way to pull them out along with phosphates at a fairly predictable, tunable, and natural rate. 

Probably not a must have, but for the cost, they are pretty [language filter] simple to set up... 

That didn't last long....

Out of curiosity, what rock are you using?

Is the sound just your waste line blasting water?  Because it should be.   That's the sound I hear when I open my manual flush valve.

You have a flir camera?  First of all, WHY... second of all, lets chat... I have drones... 

Is the algae the only issue with the duncan?    If it was me, I'd get a small dish of H2o2 and use a toothbrush to get to the affected areas.  Any dipping of an LPS I tend to keep to iodine/lugols or revive.  Bayer if I don't trust the source.  

This is just my experience... Not sure if others differ

I found another picture of your roller mat in the wild.

ZERO VOLTS!!!

8 minutes ago, pdxmonkeyboy said:

First off... don't insult my voltage.  😀

The retrieval spool is a 1" piece of PVC.  It is simply riding on a U shaped piece of plastic on side and hanging on the motor shaft on the other.  I think I need to build some kind of inlet and outlet rollers as right now the paper is rolling at an angle over the edge of the acrylic.  Also, I just used acrylic rod as guides on the bottom.  I thought this would be fine.. but there is a LOT of force on them.  I used my hand to crank it and I popped the far one out of place.  

That is a nice motor and gear box Micah.. twice the torque of the one I am using.   I really don't want to pull it out of the sump to work on it but it seems that will be inevitable. You would not believe how hard it was to get this beast into place. LOL.  It is comically large. 

Hmmmmm, maybe we should just get drunk and stare at it?  

 

 

 

 

Oh, does Mr Millivolt need a good cry?  Hehe. j/k

You may want to do something like the Klir's and Clariseas do.  They have a solid acrylic/nylon rod with an acrylic tube over the outside of it to act as a roller for the fleece guides.  

For the spools themselves, you may want to scale down the actual pivot point.  The friction from 1" PVC on another plastic surface (other than PTFE or even HDPE) will only get higher and higher as the spool fills up.    It's a hard thing to calculate though, so in my opinion, brute force is probably a better method.   

I like the get drunk and stare at it approach too.  It may not get fixed, but it will get forgotten.

Also, when I was planning to make my own (which would be dwarfed by yours 5x over...) I was planning to use this motor:  https://www.amazon.com/BRINGSMART-70kg-cm-Electric-Self-locking-Reversed/dp/B07F8QZYS4/ref=sr_1_13?dchild=1&keywords=Geared%2BDC%2Bmotor&qid=1600803467&sr=8-13&th=1

I kept reading that motors would stall out and it was a huge issue.  The Klir Di-7 in fact, had to stop giving full size rolls of fleece and instead now sells two half sized ones.   So now I have to change it twice as often, which is stupid.  But, I guess too many people were experiencing motor stalls when the spool got full.  So, that's why I chose the big motor.    Also, 24v is a more common adapter in aquaria nowadays it seems... and is more efficient.