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Just installed a brand new pure-flow II RO unit by coralife and having some serious lack of flow going through the unit. Tested the system and for every 8 cups of bad water, im producing 1 cup of clean water. Talked to a rep that works for the company and he told me that my pressure to my house...

the calcium chloride, is that just the liquid kent marine you can get anywhere

Originally Posted by Bang Guy What's the unit of measure? milliequivalents per liter [hr] (mEq/L)

just picked up a pure flowII by coralife, this is the 50 gal/day system. I tested the unit today and im getting 1 cup of RO water to every 8 cups of waste water. Is this typical for this brand or is somthing wrong with the unit. All the prefilters are brand new right out of the box. I understand...

Tested calcium and alkalinity today, calcium reads 380 and alkalinity is at 4 im mixing up a batch of kalk as we speak, will this also raise the alk in the tank. pH is at 8.2

definitly use the blue, mimics a full moon

its hard to say on what skimmer is correct for a tank, General idea of a skimmer is the more contact time with air bubbles the better the skimming. So with that being said, then I would indeed get a bigger skimmer if your planning on stocking up with corals (esp. SPS) If you want a better...

Originally Posted by Ryancw01 All those things seem like so much work. I have a Kent Marine float valve in my sump hooked right up to the RO/DI unit. Everyone always talks on here about flooding and failure with this set-up, but I have never had an issue with it at all and am going on 3 years...

i guess im the only one out there practicing this technique with you, my tank is near the kitchen area, my tank doesnt see too much light after the tank shuts down for the night but if im having a get together or know that its going to be a long night i will also drape the front and sides of my...

i was just thinking also, if you kept this fish well fed, would it still graze the tank looking for food or is this just one of those things where you have one or the other

hmmm. thats not too bad, i guess i can just take my chances and start coverting over to more sps. Would this fish mess with some xenias, i just got a great looking piece that is a really nice frost blue

Originally Posted by Mr.clownfish they are pretty nice... im a risk taker. i would give it a shot. if it dosent work u can turn it in for credit... thats very true, the store does take back fish where i would be purchasing it but its only 40%. I just cant decide if i want to throw the dice or not.

so i was in sacramento last week and this aquarium store once again had a majestic angelfish that i just cant seem to keep my eyes off of. I keep reading that you either get lucky with these fish in a reef and they leave your sps alone or they mow them down like a kid in a candy store. My tank...

Originally Posted by Eric B 125 well, if you scour the pvc, then coralline will eventually grow on it, thus producing your desired purple color. this solution will be a natural one, but would take some patience on your part. this is very true but im not really into the coraline walls, my last...

Originally Posted by Eric B 125 well, either way, i still wouldnt recommend using any kind of paint for inside of the aquarium. that's just me, though, and my over-cautious self. what color are you going to paint the plumbing anyways? i was going to go with a very dark blue/purple as this is...

been reading post here for some time now and remembering reading about spray painting your pvc plumbing. If i recall correctly, krylon is the type of paint used that is reef safe? i just painted the background of my 210 a dark blue and my pvc is sticking out like a sore thumb. Anyway, if anyone...

Originally Posted by Bang Guy The test for cavitation is to restrict the waterflow on the output side. If the bubbles go away when you reduce the flow 10% or so then it's a good chance it's just cavitation. ok, so i just read a link to cavitation and i am completly lost, can you put it in...

thanks i will reglue the inlet side of the pipes, hopefully that will do the trick

i have the same problem, i used a filter sock on the end of the piping that goes into the sump, cuts out a lot of the micro bubbles going into the sump, it hasnt cut it out completly but it did help out a bunch, im still trying to solve this problem myself, i will be tagging along with this one.

i just did the exact thing you are planning, i had a 75 gal and went to the 210 set up. On my old setup i had two filter socks, bio balls, and some cheato. what i did was put the cheato in a zip lock bag and poked some holes in it to allow some water to flow through it. I then put my bio balls...