Vance164

a pest troy just let me dispose of that for you so you dont have to deal with it 🤣🤣🤣

32 minutes ago, Salted_Waffles said:

Harrisburg is only like 25mins from me so I could probably make it out there sometime. Would be awesome if we could meet in Junction City as well. 

Which one were you looking 

either or I don't live there but I do get down to Harrisburg to play paintball on occasion 

I am interested in the real hammer do you ever get near harrisburg

I dont get home until 4:30 if you need to swing by earlier I'm sure my wife could bag them up for you. text me @5092502653

I have a 2 different kinds I can spare free of charge I'm in banks oregon 

11 minutes ago, ocboat said:

Something like this? Barely used and retired it when I got a great deal on a GHL doser 2. Seems to work fine. How’s $40.00 sound. Right here in the OC.


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if randall passes this up I may be interested

7 hours ago, Higher Thinking said:

That's interesting. Especially because some mixes, like Red Sea Pro I believe, advise not to mix longer than 4 hours. I believe it can cause undesirable precipitation.

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yes and from the 3 week storage video brs just posted the raised alk drops almost 2 points after 48 hours. 

25 minutes ago, The rad reefer said:

I’d love to snag one up as well


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this thread is almost a year and half old

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plc programming isnt too bad takes some time but with those basic on off commands it should be pretty simple. I also think you could do this with a breakout box and apex though? 

put me down for a frag of the red please

I just had this happen to a clown and blue spot wrasse not sure what caused it. unfortunately neither made it. 

12 hours ago, The rad reefer said:

The acros are anywhere for 10 to 30 a frag and same with the zoas for the most part


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I am interested in the blue zoas in the center what's the price and your location?

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krylon fusion is what is reef safe I used it on some frag racks I made. you want to let it cure for about a week. 

good to know Jeff thanks mods please delete the post!

holds 16 frag plugs super strong magnet will work on 3/4 thick glass. looking to get 20 bucks or will trade for a frag. 

After some interest from @PowderBlue and @albertareef I have decided to do a quick write up on my macro reactor. Please bare with me as this is my first ever write up.

Material list:

Media reactor (I chose a two little fishes 550 since I had it laying around)

Means to provide flow ( I used a 130gph pump due to the small size to fit my aio)  

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072JC4XTT?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

Led light strip to light the macro algae. This is what I used.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01NAC7ZOC?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

1/2 vinyl tubing 

2x 1/2" barbed ball valves

Tie wraps and rubber bands

Chaeto

This is pretty basic unfortunately I did not take any pictures when I did this so will try and recreate it. 

After unpacking everything the first thing to do is remove the phosban sticker and wrap the lights

I secured the power cord to the holding arm with a tie wrap and then began to wrap the lights around as tightly as I could. The lights have a silicone cover that somewhat adheres to the plastic so it will keep them wrapped tightly.

After wrapping all the lights I evenly spaced the strips out to reach the bottom of the reactor. I used a rubber band to hold the bottom in place. (the 3m clips the light came with didn't seem to adhere well) they have kind of moved around since harvesting.

The next step would be plumbing it into your system this is dependant on how you feed it. With my aio I used the small pump listed and 1/2 vinyl tubing with two ball valves for the inflow and outflow so you can easily remove the reactor for harvest and not make a mess!!

The last step is to add the chaeto. I removed the sponges on my reactor to help increase flow through the chaeto and then spread the chaeto out thinly around the inlet tube to maximize the use of the light. 

I have been using this reactor for 2 weeks to the day. I have notice a drop in my phosphates from 0.1 to undetectable on my hanna checker. my nitrates have also dropped from about 20ppm to between 5-10 ppm. I run the lights 12 hours a day starting 1 hour before the tank lights shut off. one other benefit is I added about 1 gallon of water to my total volume which is substantial to the about 15 gallon volume I have. 

here is my just shy of two week harvest and I started with about a baseball sized clump

39 minutes ago, albertareef said:

Hey Vance = you got a pic of that setup?

Randall - you had me for a second there...

I will message you dont want to clutter Randall's build thread. 

I actually used a 2lf 550 media reactor I bought from you years ago and used a 20 dollar grow strip led from amazon and a super small 160gph pump to feed it out of the return chamber. Picture is from today hasn't even been running for 2 weeks yet. Started with about a loose baseball sized piece.

looks good excited to see this build! I just did a DIY chaeto reactor on my 25 lagoon and after a 2 week harvest I was super impressed. 

great frag tank this was my old one!

17 minutes ago, kjlife said:

Do you have to buy special megnets for this like ones that wont rust or whatever or where do you get them this looks like a good idea

I bought some waterproof magnets from amazon that had a few reef safe reviews. they are encased in some type of plastic. 

I just made one out of egg crate and some magnets. nice and cheap pictures aren't the best 

looking to buy one if someone has one before I order new thank you!