Kensington Reefer
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They look like they will be inefficient and clog too easily thus requiring frequent maintenance
Please keep us posted
Please keep us posted
Patrick's 81G - the last dance
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finalphaze987
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I'm going to clean them out in a couple days then ill post my thoughts on here. Hopefully they don't clog up before then.
Yeabtheres slits at the top of the sump incase they totally clog up. It happened to me once with felt socks lol
finalphaze987
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Will do. I have high hopes it'll work. Throwing away socks every 3 weeks sucks.
finalphaze987
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First 24 hours in operation and it appears to be holding up well. No overflowing and visibility catching larger particles. I feed quite a bit...reef Jerky 4 timed a day, TDO pellets twice a day, Rods food once or twice a day, depending if I'm home.
finalphaze987
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The newest resident. Ive been going back and fourth between the blue and red haddoni for a while now. Just got done with a 10 day cipro treatment in QT. It didn't like it all that much plus the lack of lighting on the QT didn't help. The blue is a little subdued compared to when I got it, but im sure will return over time.
It's resident clown is still in QT. Ran a chloroquine treatment on it and not has a few more days in copper with some other additions.
Changed put the pump on the Ultrareef to the DC upgrade. I'm not sure how I feel about it...I was pulling some thick dark nog with the AC pump..this one is more of a dirty green tea. It is hell of a lot quieter tho. Can't hear a thing compared to the AC sicce. I'll give it a few more days and some tuning.
It's resident clown is still in QT. Ran a chloroquine treatment on it and not has a few more days in copper with some other additions.
Changed put the pump on the Ultrareef to the DC upgrade. I'm not sure how I feel about it...I was pulling some thick dark nog with the AC pump..this one is more of a dirty green tea. It is hell of a lot quieter tho. Can't hear a thing compared to the AC sicce. I'll give it a few more days and some tuning.
RandyC
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Sicce Synchra Silent pumped are anything but silent. I've been slowly replacing them on anything I have running on the tanks.
finalphaze987
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Are you running the DC ones? I'm finding the noise from the air silencer to be louder than the pump. But then again, it's encased inside the body of the skimmer so that maybe helps muffle the sound
RandyC
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The AC ones. I'm actually replacing all the ones that were on my calcium reactors and media reactors. I just find in general the seem to start rattling in the any of the synchra line of pumps. Not sure if the impellers swells or gets warped, but they all end up being noisy for me.
finalphaze987
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Yea...the AC one was the loudest thing on my system...couldn't stand the hum
finalphaze987
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Installed the disc filters on Thursday am and this is what they have collected up until now.
Keeping my cadence of cleaning after 3 days, I found that the filters amazingly held up. I expected them to clog up quick and overflow into itself but that wasn't the case. I doubt it would have lasted much longer than a couple more days, given the water levels pictured.
Washing them out was fairly simple but tedious. Loads of uneaten food, algae, and other detritus all spilled out as I flipped through the disk while rinsing, but that's the pain point. Having to flip through all of the disk to dislodge detritus takes a while. Cleaning these out took 3 times as long as flipping a couple socks inside out and rinsing all the loose crap away.
Both have been cleaned out and reinstalled, now waiting to see if the filters life is shortened or if ever 3-4 days is possible to get out of it. For those who change out their socks weekly or longer, I would advise against these.
Keeping my cadence of cleaning after 3 days, I found that the filters amazingly held up. I expected them to clog up quick and overflow into itself but that wasn't the case. I doubt it would have lasted much longer than a couple more days, given the water levels pictured.
Washing them out was fairly simple but tedious. Loads of uneaten food, algae, and other detritus all spilled out as I flipped through the disk while rinsing, but that's the pain point. Having to flip through all of the disk to dislodge detritus takes a while. Cleaning these out took 3 times as long as flipping a couple socks inside out and rinsing all the loose crap away.
Both have been cleaned out and reinstalled, now waiting to see if the filters life is shortened or if ever 3-4 days is possible to get out of it. For those who change out their socks weekly or longer, I would advise against these.