New 50gal Ultra Reef Build

[the hit man]

Well do to the lack of space the Nilsen reactor had to be a custom job that lays on a shelf. It has a spray bar a Blue Line 10 and an MRC controller. Another advantage to this is I can hook this one directly to the R/O and save the valuable real-estate that I need for all the other crap…

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[jmaneyapanda]

thats cheating

 

[the hit man]

jmaneyapanda;405239 wrote: thats cheating

 

[son of adam]

Wow. Like an Architect and Interior Designer is involved. If it doesn't fit custom build it. Hats off to you for the trick guts of this thing. I am not sure how something can be "hooked up" and "off the chain", but this is.

 

[oldschool52]

Looks great! Being a retired Engineer I can really appreciate what you're doing. I've seen some nice installations (mine is functional but not anywhere that neat) and yours has to be right up there with the best of them. Hope when it's all complete it functions as planned. I can see a lot of thought and design has gone into your build. The fun part will be tweeking the system when it's fired up. Just toooo coool!

 

[the hit man]

Thx guys...

 

[the hit man]

BTW: Here is a shot of my 400 gal fish only tank its down stairs in my den.

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[jmaneyapanda]

How the heck are you going yto squeeze a calcium reactor into that?

 

[william1]

My only problem with the cube build I did was the ballast for the 400 watt reflux I was running doubled the heat in my stand and started heavy condensation. But otherwise very impressive Hit Man.

 

[the hit man]

jmaneyapanda;405361 wrote: How the heck are you going yto squeeze a calcium reactor into that?

You will see soon young grasshopper....

 

[weaglereefer]

Wait, so will there be air in your nilsen reactor? I thought they had to be air/water tight?

And I wouldn't hook it up directly to an RO system.

Not worried about kalk clogging up that water inlet/float?

 

[jmaneyapanda]

au01st;405390 wrote: Wait, so will there be air in your nilsen reactor? I thought they had to be air/water tight?

And I wouldn't hook it up directly to an RO system.

Not worried about kalk clogging up that water inlet/float?

Nah, thats not how neilsens have to work. Since the outlet fitting is on the side wall, there can be air above. And the kalk shouldnt be getting that high ever in a neilsen. Its should just mix at the bottom./ The spray bar will do just that. Its actually very ingenious for a Cro-Mag.

 

[weaglereefer]

Oh. I thought the calcium hydroxide would precipitate out if the chamber had "atmosphere" in it.

 

[the hit man]

au01st;405390 wrote:
And I wouldn't hook it up directly to an RO system.

Not worried about kalk clogging up that water inlet/float?

All my top off systems have a solenoid and are hooked up to a timer. So it will only be on 4 times a day for about 15 min. at a time…

 

[jmaneyapanda]

au01st;405399 wrote: Oh. I thought the calcium hydroxide would precipitate out if the chamber had "atmosphere" in it.

Not at all. "Primitive" kalk supplementation used a plastic bottle with a little drip line., where the suspension is shook, and then slowly dripped into the system.

When adding kalkwasser, you DO NOT want to add the white sludge. Too many people think this is what you want to do. You want to add the supersaturated water, which resides above the slurry.

 

[weaglereefer]

jmaneyapanda;405408 wrote: Not at all. "Primitive" kalk supplementation used a plastic bottle with a little drip line., where the suspension is shook, and then slowly dripped into the system.

Yeah, I used to have one, and was told I needed to replace the kalk every night. That is when I got a kalk reactor...


I have no doubt you know what you're doing, just trying to get some understanding.

 

[grouper therapy]

au01st;405409 wrote: Yeah, I used to have one, and was told I needed to replace the kalk every night. That is when I got a kalk reactor...


I have no doubt you know what you're doing, just trying to get some understanding.

try this link http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2003-05/rhf/feature/index.php">http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2003-05/rhf/feature/index.php</a>
I don't want to hijack Tim's thread

 

[the hit man]

This is the tank 26X26X18 1" Acrylic rimless.

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[eric b]

Nice build!

 

[the hit man]

Okay It took a bit of work and scratching of my head but here it is a horizontal Calcium reactor

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With it being horizontal and having a single square lid I did two o-rings for each chamber and pads at the top also large media so the affluent valve didn’t get clogged...

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Hope it works