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schooleyosis · Dec 3, 2012

I'll be curious to see if it helps or not. Take a video of your reactor before and after please.

bknapp · Dec 3, 2012

Here is the Atomic Reef reactor mod with an Avast bio-pellet mixing nozzle. I was getting good tumble with the Ecoplus 396 and a stock Atomic Reef TMR-200P but I saw this nozzle and thought it would allow me to fine tune the flow a little better.

This is the standard base plate in the Atomic Reef reactor after I cut it off:

Here is what the Avast nozzle looks like:

Here is the down pipe with the Avast nozzle:

Here is a video (hopefully) of the flow through the reactor:

I have turned the flow down some from where it was before and a tad less from what is seen in the video (sorry no before video Ryan I had already chopped it up before I saw your post) I am pretty happy with it. To any other ecoBAK users how does the tumble seem?

Thanks.

schooleyosis · Dec 4, 2012

Wow, that is a lot better tumble than what I remember seeing when I was over there on Saturday. Not sure about the tumble rate so I'm no help to ya there. Did you increase the flow from where you had it set before adding the nozzle?

Dowtish · Dec 4, 2012

That's some great tumbling action. Good job on the mod.

bknapp · Dec 4, 2012

schooleyosis said:
Wow, that is a lot better tumble than what I remember seeing when I was over there on Saturday. Not sure about the tumble rate so I'm no help to ya there. Did you increase the flow from where you had it set before adding the nozzle?

The flow to the reactor is actually a little bit lower than before the mod.

bknapp · Dec 4, 2012

Dowtish said:
That's some great tumbling action. Good job on the mod.

Thanks.

schooleyosis · Dec 4, 2012

bknapp said:
The flow to the reactor is actually a little bit lower than before the mod.

That tells me the mod really does help! Will definitely consider adding mine when it comes time to add more pellets. Thanks for posting!

bknapp · Dec 17, 2012

Here are a couple of quick FTS I took tonight after a five gallon water change:

gmoney243 · Dec 17, 2012

rock work would be cool without the phallus :tape:

bknapp · Dec 17, 2012

gmoney243 said:
rock work would be cool without the phallus :tape:

Na man, it's a middle finger. LOL

palvyre · Dec 18, 2012

schooleyosis · Dec 18, 2012

Lookin' good. I see you are moving your PH's around. Working on some random flow are ya?

angrycubano · Dec 18, 2012

scape looks good bro

bknapp · Dec 18, 2012

schooleyosis said:
Lookin' good. I see you are moving your PH's around. Working on some random flow are ya?

Just trying to find the right placement.

bknapp · Dec 18, 2012

angrycubano said:
scape looks good bro

Thanks Mitch.

bknapp · Dec 20, 2012

Small fish update, I've added two permanent residents to the tank in the past few weeks. A small "Christmas Wrasse" and a "Carpenter's Flasher Wrasse", just wish I could get a good picture of these two fish as they are quickly becoming favorites of mine.