Recent content by billwann

When I ran lanthium I saw a a big decline in the growth of Coraline algae and pretty much all my SPS died with in a week . I started with a very small does and filtered through a fine micron filter to trap the bound PO4 . I know the corals see it just like calcium and try to use it but it made a...

One of the large reactors I built had a capacity of 300 gallons of media and was mounted on load cells so we could see each day how much media was being dissolved . Its a great way to tune a reactor to a given flow and PH . who is building it for you ? I will see if I can find any pictures of...

I have modified the rk2s quite a bit . There are a few thing that can be done to make them work better . The first thing is to reduce the turbulence in the skimmer body . the way that they have the injector blowing in is horrible . I have put diffuser plates in the larger one and that works well...

Way before volcano skimmers , Scott used my idea . I built the first one back in 2006 , I run hplc every day , I should have been more specific , Ion chromatography is what I want to do . Ion specific electrodes pretty much suck , not what I would call very accurate and you could lot leave them...

I see you are running rk2 skimmers , How do you like them ? I have had a few of them over the years , a bit too power hungry for me now . I knew Bob very well , it sucks he died , great guy . How are the Schuran calcium reactors working for you ? Schuran makes the best ones out there if your...

A lot of my softies just deteriorated in a few days . Iam just getting over that . I run about 10 pounds X 2 in bag filters with mesh bags with a flow rate of 55 GPM . I too saw weird reactions to the Lanthium in my last tank . I have found that the sulfur filter really eats the Po4s . I tried...

What do you run your PH at ? Do you use calcium hydroxide ? If so do you have trouble with it clouding the tank ? I don't run GFO , just not a big fan of it and I have not had any detectable phosphate in a few months . I do run a sulfur denitrifier . I did run ozone for awhile but found my orp...

Thanks . I have been building it for four years , It takes awhile when you do everything yourself . I have had fish in it for 7 months now . Still getting things figured out , my last tank was 1500 gallons so there is a bit of a learning curve . What temp do you run your system at ? Do you have...

Here are a few of teh tank being built and setting the windows . They are 6 x10 feet and three inches thick .

These are the sumps that are below the tank . you can see the bottom of the tank in the picture .

Right now the lighting is 10 1000 watt aqualine buske . The six inch butter fly valve is for the surge . It has a 300 gallon tank located in the second floor of the house , then it has six three inch valve that open randomly to make different waves in the tank .Here is current picture of the...