Absolutely beautiful!
What is the red fish?
What is the red fish?
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Absolutely beautiful!
What is the red fish?
AQbsolutely stunning tank with gorgeous colouration and some fantastic growth. Makes me want to go home and tear out my filtersocks and skimmer
An absolute credit to you sir.
Thank you.Wow your tank is so beautiful [emoji7]
Beautiful tank. Excellent example of using biology to achieve a natural balance for the system.
Like others, I find your construction of a DIY Dastaco reactor very interesting. I had been thinking about building my own version as well. Did you incorporate any venting cycles into your version to replace the CO2 on a daily basis? You might want to do a thread just on your DIY Dastaco reactor as I am sure that a lot of people would be interested.
Dennis
Thank you Dennis.
In my case I have PH probe to check ph inside reactor and I never had to vent reactor on daily basis.
If you have any query regarding reactor I am happy to answer.
The float switch on/off the feed?Ph probe is only for monitoring. This is the quickest way to check if reactor is working fine. Normally float switch keeps Ph around 6,0-6,2. If Ph is different, higher then usual, it means that something is wrong eg. empty CO2 bottle, issue with pump, you name it. Generally speaking reactor requires your attention. For example, recently Ph was not stable inside reactor and I had to vent my reactor every couple of days, despite that every thing was working fine. Then I realize that last time I cleaned ARM was one year ago, after cleaning reactor started working normally, lesson learned - clean your media at least ones a year.
Yes.The float switch on/off the feed?
Thank you .Congrats on such beautiful tank.
I find that your not running a skimmer interesting. I thought I recently saw some posts on people not running skimmers. Before upgrading my tank a few months ago, the skimmer on my old tank was more or less just aerating the water and my few SPS looked good. Now with my new tank the SPS are still settling in but they don't look as good but I'm running a skimmer. I wonder if there is something to skimmer free systems?
Yes.
749311B8-FE90-4EC1-A87A-0D5BD6B810C1 by Jacek Kowalski, on FlickrCan share briefly how the Dastaco system work? Cannot find any thread on this topic
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B8-FE90-4EC1-A87A-0D5BD6B810C1 by Jacek Kowalski, on Flickr
In chamber no1 there is a float switch, CO2 and water supply from peristaltic pump. When you turn on reactor all 3 chambers are full of water, float switch activate CO2 solenoid valve and chamber No1 is filled with CO2. When lelvel of CO2 reaches the float then float drops ( can’t swim in the gas ) and gas supply is cut off. CO2 dissolves in the water in the blink of the eye, creates more room for water. So floater can swim again and activates CO2 supply and again CO2 fills up chamber and again float drops cutting off CO2 supply. Imagine how your ATO device works. Instead pumping water is pumping CO2 to keep the same level of CO2 in chamber no1. That’s the dastaco secret .
Water supply is constant from peristaltic pump. The whole reactor is always full of water. Controlling the flow rate throughout of the reactor you control alk.level in the tank.Thank You Jacek for sharing. Only 2 more questions.
The No.1 chamber water supply when on and when off?
And CO2 is inject only when there is water in the NO.1 chamber?
Thank you.Simply breathtaking!!! Also looks very natural. Amazing job.
Thank You Jacek for the update and info.Water supply is constant from peristaltic pump. The whole reactor is always full of water. Controlling the flow rate throughout of the reactor you control alk.level in the tank.
Thank you.