Sam's Oceanic 120 - DIY solutions

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The before and after photos of my algae-scrub session are nuts... It was no short order but after neglecting my family for longer then I should have I feel accomplished.
My Phyto had all gotten contaminated so I sterilized everything and restarted a batch.
Dealt with my reactors too... changed the carbon, removed a ton of the GFO and restarted... Flushed it into a bucket before connecting it to the sump even...
I'll be turning it off in a bit when I dose ChemiClean tonight.
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The filter sock holder hooked me up...
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I wish I spent the extra few bucks on better wood for the stand... this pine wasn't very accurate dimensionally so I have a big filling & sanding step...
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Started seeing my DI resin being used now so at least the issue with TDS != 0 is solved.
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Agree that pine sucks, totally good for rough work or objects that don't require perfection, like random furniture and such, but hardwood would have been much closer to spec. I hate buying wood right now, so darn expensive. I literally live in dense Idaho forests, where there are more logging trucks on the road than regular cars, there's a mill in every town and sometimes two, but I can't buy any project wood for decent prices. Grrrr. Makes me a Grinch.
 
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Did the 20% water change after 48hrs of ChemiClean last night. Cleaned the sump a little and got rid of my old filter floss. smells a lot better... 30 gallons of water didnt change any levels significantly. GFO'd my PO4 to .25 again and will leave there for a bit before lowering.
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The sweet Kenya tree I got from WWC that Timmy doesn't eat just bud! I found the small one inmy MP40. The larger one just popped off the tree when I messed with it a little.
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I have them restrained by loose loops of fishing string crazy glued to the rock. will cut away the string once they've attached.
 
Looks like I'll be getting a third bud! (the big fat arm up front will eventually float free.)
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Clam gunna do what clam gunna do. HOpe I'm not killing it...
He vacated his disk and left this behind:
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it was in a bad spot so I put it on another throne... and it moved again:
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less light more light? I dunno...
have been keeping everything pretty stable except PO4...
 
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New Product almost complete! CO2 scrubbing for the masses!

It'll be up on ParlAquatics soon:

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just a cap that instead of CArbon, you put co2 scrubbing media... airline just compression fits into hole in lid of cap and goes to skimmer air intake...
Now most folks can find the space to do recirculating CO2 scrubbing.
 
Projects with Sam said:
New Product almost complete! CO2 scrubbing for the masses!

It'll be up on ParlAquatics soon:

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SkimmerCO2CapSmall_03.png
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just a cap that instead of CArbon, you put co2 scrubbing media... airline just compression fits into hole in lid of cap and goes to skimmer air intake...
Now most folks can find the space to do recirculating CO2 scrubbing.
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@Gtinnel , interested?
 
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Gtinnel said:
I found the perfect way to have room for my scrubber, I have mine outside my house.
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I'd try that except for the polar vortexes!
 
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