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UV sterilizer did fix my issue. I was losing without it.
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Happy it helped you. Fingers crossed it will help me too.
BTW, I finally got sodium metasilicate. I will dose 1ppm of SiO2 today to spark diatoms. But I need silica tester, doesn't sound right to dose without measuring.
Edit: I just bought Hanna Silica Low Range HI705.
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A few reasons:
- Wanted all the return water to be treated.
- Don't exactly like the idea of treating return water and spitting it back upstream from the return pump.
- The unit was not plumbed at all, and as I am to rebuild the whole return piping, I was not inclined to make a permanent installation. I don't like how CADE designed all the plumbing. But I have OCD.
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You need to be able to adjust the flow thru the UV via ball/gate valve or a separate pump, the flow thru the UV is minimal compared to your return flow. I can't see how this can work, but I have seen others who have plumbed the UV output water directly back into their displays.
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This is a Jebao DCP-10000 pump with a controller. The flow is set to circa about 2,000 L/h. I probably should take the effort and measure it properly.
Water movement in the tank is done by 2 Jebao GMP-40 wavemakers working at about 50-60% power.
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