Update on my DND: boy do I suck at plumbing. Don't know how but every fitting leaks. Finished 3 days of seeding bacteria. Going to drain it and fix the fittings before hooking it up and dosing carbon. Finger's crossed.
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Good luck. I just finished reading the whole thread and believe I read in a post somewhere in the middle that Dr. Tim's did not work. The person had to switch to MB7 to get the DND working.Seeding the DND(RIP Donavan).small dosing pump circulating Dr. Tim’s can’t wait to get it in-line tok a while to get all the parts and then plug the leaks
Well, all of my Dr. Tims wound up on the floor due to a bad seal on one of the fittings. After all kinds of gluing and other attempts, I cut it apart and rebuilt it with elbows instead of a connecting pipe. Need to get more bacteria, so maybe I’ll try the MB7
Are you still dosing 4ml/day of the DIY nopox? Also what size was your tank?Update: had some air bubbling in the line, then a blockage which caused water to exit the John guest fitting. And, due to the ATO trying to compensate, dropped my salinity. So replumbed the fittings. Put on new caps and screwed them in tightly(didn’t realize that they should be recessed when fully tightened. Also got a tap set and made clean threads to put in the hose connections. Used plenty of pipe tape this time and the output is steady and hasn’t had an issue with leaking or flow.
Nitrates dropped from over 100 to 9.5 to 4.6. Tank was not happy. After a few days of heavy feeding and getting the salt back to 1.026, everyone is back to normal. GSP was closed for 4 days. I’ve had GSP survive being outside of water for a week but it surely doesn’t enjoy a rapid drop in nitrates.
I had cut the dt nopox in half and the nitrates went to 10, with all the frozen, reefroids, etc. going to start dosing phos soon as all of the stuff that cut nitrates seems to have made phosphate disappear.
in addition to the DND, I have a turf scrubber that is growing, a big export plate and the protein skimmer.
side note, I have never had such stinky, nasty sludge in the skimmer as I do now. Almost enough to make you vomit. Better out of the tank than in.
Off topic, but this is brilliant! So simple.Update: had some air bubbling in the line, then a blockage which caused water to exit the John guest fitting. And, due to the ATO trying to compensate, dropped my salinity. So replumbed the fittings. Put on new caps and screwed them in tightly(didn’t realize that they should be recessed when fully tightened. Also got a tap set and made clean threads to put in the hose connections. Used plenty of pipe tape this time and the output is steady and hasn’t had an issue with leaking or flow.
Nitrates dropped from over 100 to 9.5 to 4.6. Tank was not happy. After a few days of heavy feeding and getting the salt back to 1.026, everyone is back to normal. GSP was closed for 4 days. I’ve had GSP survive being outside of water for a week but it surely doesn’t enjoy a rapid drop in nitrates.
I had cut the dt nopox in half and the nitrates went to 10, with all the frozen, reefroids, etc. going to start dosing phos soon as all of the stuff that cut nitrates seems to have made phosphate disappear.
in addition to the DND, I have a turf scrubber that is growing, a big export plate and the protein skimmer.
side note, I have never had such stinky, nasty sludge in the skimmer as I do now. Almost enough to make you vomit. Better out of the tank than in.
Off topic, but this is brilliant! So simple.