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  1. revnull

    "Giant Mini Fridge" - Red Sea E-170

    The plumbing mod is working great. I'm just having a hell of a time keeping my chaeto alive. I seeded the reactor with algae barn clean chaeto, but it seemed brittle at the time. Not sure if it's the light or just a "bad" batch of chaeto. I'm thinking of scrubbing out the reactor and starting...
  2. revnull

    "Giant Mini Fridge" - Red Sea E-170

    Yes, I gained ~0.10 pH. The tube is still loosely fit to the intake so I assume it's still drawing in air for inside. Once I fix it to the venturi, I expect to see even more improvement.
  3. revnull

    "Giant Mini Fridge" - Red Sea E-170

    It's been a busy month. I've been preoccupied with my other money pit of a hobby, 3D printing. I finally decided to try my hand at 3D modeling. After some reading and having no experience, I found the Fusion 360 was a good place to start. There are tons of tutorials online to guide you through...
  4. revnull

    "Giant Mini Fridge" - Red Sea E-170

    I ended up finding a great deal on a used DOS. Having a few loyalty points saved up at an online reef gear retailer, I also picked up a 1Link cable to power/data the DOS directly form my EB832. I have it mounted in place of the BRS doser and everything fits better than I could have hoped. :D...
  5. revnull

    "Giant Mini Fridge" - Red Sea E-170

    Yeah, I used to only dose kalkwasser on my old tank so a single headed BRS doser was good enough. Since switching to 2 part, I've been manually dosing. I figured I'd manually dose calcium during the day and auto dose Alkalinity at night until I buy a multi-head doser. As for your unused DOS...
  6. revnull

    "Giant Mini Fridge" - Red Sea E-170

    I tested it and the water level just barely touched the tip of the dosing line. I could have made an adjustment, but opted to relocate instead. I'm thinking of finally biting the bullet and buying a DOS. Anyone have one for sale? :)
  7. revnull

    "Giant Mini Fridge" - Red Sea E-170

    I finally got around to mounting my fresh air pipe to the wall. It's been raining off and on and it seems to be working as designed. :) I also hooked up my old BRS 1.1ml doser (actually 2ml) until I decide on a final dosing setup. My only concern with this mounting point is what happens...
  8. revnull

    "Giant Mini Fridge" - Red Sea E-170

    Today's project was to "fix" my ongoing low pH problem. I know a lot of people say not to chase pH and I agree to a certain extent, but if you are going to do it, I think doing it naturally when possible is better than chemically. For that reason, I chose to run a fresh air line outside. Part...
  9. revnull

    "Giant Mini Fridge" - Red Sea E-170

    Today I added a new optical level sensor to my top off reservoir. I used an old magnetic single probe holder that seems very similar to the one that ships with the other version of the stand alone sensor saving me $10. (I probably paid more than $10 for that probe holder years ago. :) )...
  10. revnull

    "Giant Mini Fridge" - Red Sea E-170

    Years ago I kept a mandarin that was a very healthy eater. He would even eat frozen brine. I made the massive mistake of buying a flame angel from a very questionable shop (long since out of business). Being early in hobby, I didn't QT and the flame angel had flukes. Before I realized what was...
  11. revnull

    "Giant Mini Fridge" - Red Sea E-170

    Possibly, but I think I'm going to lay off the phyto for a few weeks just in case. Then start dosing 1/2 the recommended. I'm hoping my chaeto reactor will keep the pod population happy until then.
  12. revnull

    "Giant Mini Fridge" - Red Sea E-170

    So about 60hrs after adding UV, my water is near crystal clear. :) Skimming has been extra wet for the past couple of days. I assume its been picking up the die off of whatever was clouding the water. Next step is a full set of parameter tests to see if my water chemistry was adversely...
  13. revnull

    "Giant Mini Fridge" - Red Sea E-170

    To feed the new pod population. I probably overdosed and put myself in this pickle.
  14. revnull

    "Giant Mini Fridge" - Red Sea E-170

    Just a few days after I added my cheato, pods and started dosing live phyto, I start getting hazy/green water with TONS of film algae on the glass. It was so bad that about an hour after cleaning my glass, is was covered once again. All of my water params are good, but I performed a 20% water...
  15. revnull

    "Giant Mini Fridge" - Red Sea E-170

    This evening I spent some time preparing my BRS space saver containers for the day I finally decide on a doser (I'm open to suggestions based on personal experience). I picked up a length of 1/4-in ridged acrylic tubing from Tap Plastics and cut a 13.5-in section with a small pipe cuter...
  16. revnull

    "Giant Mini Fridge" - Red Sea E-170

    Current livestock list: A mated pair of clowns (they were my first livestock purchase 12+ years ago; older than my children) 2 Turbo Snails 4 Scarlet Hermit Crabs 1 Blood Shrimp Current tank shots: Yes, Chia Homer made it into the scape. :) I drilled out a 2" hole in the back of his...
  17. revnull

    "Giant Mini Fridge" - Red Sea E-170

    My Algae Barn order showed up this week. The chaeto from Algea Barn lived up to it's name, it was very clean, but I do not recall my old chaeto ball being this brittle in my last tank. At night with the lights out, I dosed 1 bag of pods to the display and the other directly to the...
  18. revnull

    "Giant Mini Fridge" - Red Sea E-170

    Cool, how is it working for you?
  19. revnull

    "Giant Mini Fridge" - Red Sea E-170

    I recently picked up a Skimz MBR127 algae reactor. Out of the box it runs a Skimz Quietpro 1.2 DC pump. I wanted to see what it would take to run this reactor from my manifold and started to take things apart. Based on the size of the pump hole a 1/2-in close nipple and 90 degree female...
  20. revnull

    "Giant Mini Fridge" - Red Sea E-170

    Thanks for the offer Edgar. I can wait, but not a bad idea to have another on hand. I think I'll order 2 instead.
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