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Walter White

Walter White

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#122
sethsolomon;349584 said:
Thanks!




So measured my alk today and found it at 11 dkh so had to turn off the calcium reactor and now I think I need a more reliable way to feed the calcium reactor with water. the separate pump is giving varying results.
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Get a cole parmer paristaltic. No better way to feed a cal reactor
 
zombie

zombie

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No sense on spending the money on a Cole palmer. Just get one from apt instruments that is a quarter the price. I know several people on the neptune forums that have run those in excess of 8 years without anything but regular tubing replacements.
 
Walter White

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Keep an eye out on ebay you can get a nice Cole Parmer masterflex for about $300. By the way I don't see a single pump on the APT website that will hold a candle to cole parmer or that I would trust running 100% duty cycle for any real length of time.

If you want the real low down on running a calcium reactor on a cole parmer or any other parasitical on the market refer to this RC thread.

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2368618&highlight=cole+parmer+masterflex
 
zombie

zombie

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Walter White;349732 said:
By the way I don't see a single pump on the APT website that will hold a candle to cole parmer or that I would trust running 100% duty cycle for any real length of time.
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That's cause you are looking at the wrong ones. This is the one that lasts for fricking ever. You can order it with a PVC casing and either a pot controller or advanced controller with 0-5V input for about $300 and they are guaranteed to last 20,000 hours at continuous duty or they will replace it. Cole Palmers are definitely a better pump, but I would rather get one of these for $300 than spend $1500 on a comparable cole palmer that will last 40,000 hours.

http://aptinstruments.com/pdf/SP200VOBLPS.pdf
 
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Walter White

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zombie;349734 said:
That's cause you are looking at the wrong ones. This is the one that lasts for fricking ever. You can order it with a PVC casing and either a pot controller or advanced controller with 0-5V input for about $300 and they are guaranteed to last 20,000 hours at continuous duty or they will replace it. Cole Palmers are definitely a better pump, but I would rather get one of these for $300 than spend $1500 on a comparable cole palmer that will last 40,000 hours.

http://aptinstruments.com/pdf/SP200VOBLPS.pdf
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lol who said anything about spending $1500?.

a 10 second search turned up this. As I already stated if you keep an out of you can find one for around $300

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Cole-Parmer...195?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4195a39dd3
 
sethsolomon

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well currently both of those are out of my price range :) So I am going to just pipe off my return pump. On a better note my alk is down to 9.7 9.8 dkh ballpark. 1 more day and I should be able to turn my calcium reactor back on
 
sethsolomon

sethsolomon

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And replaced all my RO membrains in my ro/di system. I noticed my DI resin turning way faster than it should. This should solve my cyano problem in my 34.4g tank.
 
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ayaws

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Hey Seth, your pics are awesome! Care to share your settings? I'm on a Nikon D7000 and always fight getting my settings right.
 
Miah2bzy

Miah2bzy

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#136
Those mandarins looked great Seth! Hope I can get mine that nice!!!
 
Dr.DiSilicate

Dr.DiSilicate

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6.92? That's pretty high. What kind of media are you using. Mine is at about 6.45. It's obviously worked for you... Just curious.
 
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