We're still using Tunze Turbelle. Great pumps!! To bad they are not making spare parts anymore(the motor will never give up but the plastic parts will unfortunately).
Find someone to 3D print them for you.
Who's still Reefing Ol' School?
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Find someone to 3D print them for you.
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Not SPS dominant but Two large Monti Caps, Red Planet Acro, Cats Paw and a large birds nest. Tap water treated with Start Right. Black Box LED's.
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How did you set up that constant drip for kalk?
TexasTodd
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I used something that isn't available anymore. Champion Light Supply used to sell a Reef Filler pump, which was a chemical pump either 1-3 or 1-7 gallon per day adjustable. It hooked to fridge ice/water line tubing and would pump 200' in any direction. I want one badly but called and he can't get them anymore. The kalk was then adjusted up in concentration as needed...it was more of a slurry, in a 90 gallon can with Ehiem 1260 stirring constantly. Looking at doing similar with paristalic but it won't be nearly as durable and they can't pump very far.
Reef Filler pump was just an industrial peristaltic pump. I would pick up a Stenner model if you wanted to get one.
The come in single and dual heal models I use them at my work and used them for water changes when I use to do that.
http://stenner.com/products/pumps
The come in single and dual heal models I use them at my work and used them for water changes when I use to do that.
http://stenner.com/products/pumps
TexasTodd
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Fantastic Ed, thank you!!! So was there a piece of soft tubing inside the pumps? The tubing used was ridged and only connect to the in / out ports on outside of the pump. I will say the pump would easily go 2 years between pumping kalk but the tubing would eventually clog.
Okay, so I looked and those I see the paristaltic part, the Reef Filler did not have this. It had a cycling up and down type noise it made, not like a paristaltic pump
Okay, so I looked and those I see the paristaltic part, the Reef Filler did not have this. It had a cycling up and down type noise it made, not like a paristaltic pump
Not SPS dominant but Two large Monti Caps, Red Planet Acro, Cats Paw and a large birds nest. Tap water treated with Start Right. Black Box LED's.
I knew someone would finally post their tap water tank...good for you.
The reef filler performs similar to this design.
I use the Stenner pumps in water treatment and it’s not the greatest environment. [emoji3]
But it will pump fluid quite a ways
The reef filler squeezed the line inside the pump and preforms the same as the Stenner. I used that style of pump before switched to Stenner for bullet proof operation.
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MENTAL REEF DISORDER!
Now and days it seems everyone is trying to one-up everyone else. Crazy plumbing schemes with matching sumps. Every kind of automation gadget. Custom LED backlit controller displays.
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Who still uses GSM Skimmers?
fish farmer
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Do you mean ASM? I just replaced mine with a Reef Octopus last fall, but still have it operating on a 120 gallon FOWLR, the Odell tank I mention earlier in this thread.
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Yes, it was supposed to be "G3 ASM" skimmer!
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Best tank I had till this day was a used 120gal oceanic with the glass brace in the middle. I was a broke college student and everything was DIY and budget equipment. When I went to meet up with the seller it was sitting in the back of a liquor store in Houston collecting dust. There’s no telling how old it was by then. For some reason everything I put in that tank thrived. Fish and softies no QT for either. It’s not that I don't think QT is a great idea I was just so ignorant about all that back then and somehow it all still worked. Unfortunately when I was overseas the structural integrity became compromised and my family had to take it down.
Spoiler alert. My lack of QT procedures on other builds finally caught up to me and it wasn't pretty, but I’ve been changing my ways and I think it’s gonna work out!
Belgian Anthias
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"Old school" in the context of " methods which have proven its value " or " using things or and methods of which one does not know what the outcome will be exactly." ?
some of the best tanks I saw in the early 80's had trickle filters ,bio balls,dead coral skeletons as the reef base and caulerpa IN the display tank as a means of nitrate control...where did we go wrong ? lolhere’s my 75 build. next build I’m going UGF.
Belgian Anthias
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Probably it started with the banning of the biofilter ( blamed to produce a safely stored nitrogen reserve) which forced reefers to passive nutrient management and a low, not controllable carrying capacity. The following "live rock" hype, a big business, changed nothing.
Notwithstanding modern technology and computers take over from humans and in the last decades a lot of knowledge has been acquired about who and what is responsible for what happens and how it happens, the questions asked remain the same. Suggested solutions live there own life on the internet.
Dieter Brockman, one of the driving forces behind the Berlin method, said in an interview with Roger Vitko in 2004: “The Internet is as much a curse to hobbyists as it is a blessing.” "It contains many false statements and badly thought out hobbyist experiments accepted as fact."
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