ckalaca
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Think you can show me where you hooked those ice cap scrubbers to? I’ve got the same skimmer and I’m looking to raise my pHRemoving the filter socks and refugium section was a major pain in the butt. Dental floss worked well on the parts I could reach and get at. I ended up braking some of the glass but in the end I was able to get it out without any damage to the sump.
Everything installed and my knees are killing my. The fleece roller was installed using a 1 1/4 rubber/flex coupler. I used some rubber/water proof tape on the 1" pvc to make it snug and clamped it down. The metric drain already fit pretty snug so I didn't even clamp it. I will be replacing the clamp with a plastic one. I can't get my sump water level any lower than 8.25 inches, no matter how much I adjusted the float valve. The valve only seems to change the water level in the return section of the sump so maybe the flow is restricted in the media section? I ended up picking up some ceramic tiles from the hardware store and placed the roller on top, making it sit at just under 8 inches of water.
I also have the skimmer sitting on three tiles so it's sitting at about 7 inches of water. Need to readjust the skimmer now, it's running a bit wet. My skimmer has two air intake tubes so I picked up two medium sized Icecap CO2 Scrubbers. Wow, they work much better than I could have ever hoped for. Previously my PH would bottom out at 7.8 at night and hit 8.0 during the day. Let it run all night and at 11:00 a.m. the PH was 8.2. That's 2 hours before my lights turn on. At the same time for the past two days my PH was 7.8.
For the PaxBellum I just purchased a 350gph pump. I couldn't find any clean Cheato so I'm using Red Ogo algae for now. @AlgaeBarn, hook it up with some Cheato stock! Someday I'll plumb it off the return manifold but I didn't want to bother with the 1/2" to 3/4" adaptor and mess with the overall flow. I'd have to adjust the valve each time I turn it off to harvest the algae and figure out the flow setting again. I want to add a flow meter to the apex so maybe after I do that I'll use the manifold. The flow meter is a ways off, this metric plumbing is just too hard to work in imperial plumbing.
Apex is mostly moved over. Probes and Trident are up and running, still need to set up the power bar, DOS, and auto feeder. Final light is mounted, need to cit the lid to fit the last light. Also need to clean up the cords and glass before I take video/pictures.
