Recent content by ShooterRick

I am working so many hours I just could not wrap my head around a DIY project now and wanted to get this done. Setting down today I wrote the following requirements: Available stand space under 72 bowfront, room for in sump skimmer, solid design, maximized fuge space for available size sump...

Yes part one and part 2. I also read several forum reviews out there on the net. Seems to be just some minor easy corrections with the one gate baffle for the most part. Simple fix. No expense to fix. What interested me was the sump 2 version seems to be built for the 72 bow front stand...

I was in the process of thinking out upgrading my old repurposed wet dry to a custom sump build and was intrigued by the Aqeon Proflex sumps. The design was close to what I had in my head for my custom build. Has anyone had any experience with these?? Any thoughts?

Got my email this afternoon at work. Just ordered. Great deal!

My Math and Plan For Kalk Dosing ATO My last post to this thread: I believe I have got it covered for now. My tank is a 72 gal bowfront with 20 gal sump. I would estimate with rock and sand I actually have about 75 gal max, maybe 70. For the last week I have ran kalk made with pickeling lime...

I have a Maxima HIS 4 stage RO system. Do you know if their are replacement filters available for this other than the Kent cartridges? Are RO cartridges standard sized or must I buy Kent product? Thanks.

This morning I checked my RO unit and it is reading 1.0 TDS. Time to change the resin filter I think. I decided to go ahead with it regardless and mixed Mg, Ca, Ak, and 10 gal Kalk for beginning my ATO dosing program. I will let the kalk mix set 12 hrs before adding to the ATO. The others will...

I think I sent you mine. I do neeed a couple things.

Update: The ATO has been online for 5 days now. I made a small change to the RKL overide and the sump has held steady at ideal depth since. Should have done this from the beginning! LOL

Because I assume, I have been dosing with Red Sea ABC+ on a weekly basis, my numbers look pretty good I believe without making adjustments prior to implementing Kalk in my ATO. Tonight: Kh, 12.3 dkh, Mg, 1400 ppm, Ca, 400 ppm. Red Sea ABC+ is dosed based on Ca uptake either daily or weekly...

Besides the obvious benefit of not hauling water everyday from my RO, I wanted to dose Kalk to help stabilize Calcium and Ph in my 72 BowFront. After looking at several ATO systems I decided on a simple single float system with failsafes based on my Controllers Software. I have a RKL that I just...

I have my simple ato built and will take pictures later tonight to post the thread but first check my reasoning please. The ATO is 18 gal of which 15 gal will be filled. The pump is 4 inches off the bottom of the ATO sump. I mixed 5 gal of Kalk at 1/2 teaspoon per quart for the 5 gal bucket...

Thanks for the update. How quite are the koralia pumps now. Mine is very noisy at start up and not suitable for a timer. The sicce pumps work fine on a timer and no bumpers to raddle.

Flow rate vs Intensity Something I noticed this morning and can be easily misunderstood or overlooked. It has to do with flow volume versus intensity of the flow. These pumps move alot of water but it is done without a great deal of intensity or force so to speak. I noticed some sand shifting...

I installed 2 Sicce Voyager 4 wave pumps in my 72 bowfront tonight. These are my initial thoughts on the product and I will add any meaningfull info to this post in the future. Pics were taken from various online sources. My first impression out of the box was that these are bigger than the...