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check the expiry date on your test kit?

no. the circulation pump ontop of the unit draws water into the reactor. doesnt need to be gravity fed (although certainly helps) who said anything about compressing a liquid? compressing liquid is different than placing it under pressure. just like if i were to put your arm in a vice and twist it, your bones might not break straight away but they will be under pressure as i originally said, water is not being restricted in, its being restricted out. there is a greater force being exerted from water being sucked in by the pump quicker than the water can be pushed out creating pressure within the reactor. as you state, you cant compress a liquid so there will be back pressure on the pump - however it will still be creating pressure (albeit small) within the reactor. it could be that the design of the korallin is different than others? heres a guide for you to how calcium reactors work: http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2002- ... /index.php and just as a side note, you can compress liquid: http://www.physlink.com/Education/AskExperts/ae15.cfm

downloaded it, watched it. very nice, tank looking great. the file size of the video is considerably large for its duration. it is quite a large res - you could easily have had it at 50% of the size and still been able to see it easily enough. this would approximately half the file size. also not sure what compression you were using it was reasonably good clarity so possibly not enough compression - you could have got it substantially smaller!!! i bet it still doesnt do the tank justice though, some of your photos of acro's show awesome colouring, yet in the video the same acro's look washed out. clearly the difference in quality between the still and video camera (or if the same camera, the settings when in video mode) btw the documentary you have on sky on the tv below the tank is AWESOME i watched that a while ago - those guys are insanely fit!

static ip usually costs and most of the time is only available to business accounts. its also not needed, get a dynamic ip from no-ip.com or dyndns similar!

change 150 litres (15%) every 2-3 weeks, use NSW

???? on the contrary, INCREASE the number of corals. more corals the better as they compete for nutrients against bad algaes. if anything reduce the number of fish. very likely if you overfeed, feed as much as fish consume within 2 minutes, no more. make sure no food goes uneaten. turn off powerheads when feeding. VERY likely to be a source. i use filter wool once every 2 months for only a few days at a time, simply to remove crap floating in the water column or when i stir up the sandbed.

are you going to have your return pump hooked up to a UPS? if so factor this in - you will need to have switch wired up on ups output, not input.

my turn to download,.... now that im at work

if they did synchronous dsl here we'd get nice upload speeds im hearing ya! :lol: howz about burning it to cd and mail it to me? seriously. i'll video edit it, cut out the crap and make it 1/4 the size!

you wont get too many people downloading at that size! even with dsl

at 80ppm of nitrates, i dont think they will come down quick enough to worry!!!

thats high but still on outside range (from memory) for fishies. how long has your tank been running? what was your reading last time?

another update! Mon night: Mg 1050 (added 1 cup of Mg) kH 5.2 (added 3 heaped tblspoons baking soda diluted in 1 liter water) Ca 380 (increased bubble rate from 1 every 2-3 seconds to 1 per second) Tues night: Mg 1110 (added 1.5 cups of Mg) kH 6.2 (added another 3 heaped tblspoons baking soda diluted in 1 litre water) Ca 380 (nothing) Weds night: Mg 1170 (added 1.5 cups of Mg) kH 6.7 (nothing) Ca 370 (nothing) Thurs night: Mg 1200 (added 1.5 cups Mg) kH 6.1 (nothing) Ca 350 (nothing) Fri night: Stablised reactor bubble rate at 1 per sec, drip rate 1 per second 15% water change (tested 5 hours later) Mg 1140 (nothing) kH 6.4 (added 3 heaped tblspoons baking soda diluted in 1 liter water) Ca 370 (nothing) Sat night: no test (added 'Salifert kH+pH buffer') Sun night: Mg 1170 kH 8.5 Ca 370 Now just got to get Mg chips from Brendan, Mag chloride (going halves with puttputt, using as a backup) and optimise Calcium Reactor

get kH down to f all???

yup, one for you one for jimmy, $50 a piece. problem is getting them out

they usually take the computer too

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crap bore water in whangaparoa. tastes like sh!@# too!!!

a calcium reactor 'drips' at about 1 per second, whereas the water into the reactor is not restricted. the pump "sucks" the water into the reactor faster than it drips out creating more pressure. simple.

of course it will, the pump lph and size of its outlet is greater than the effluent outlet lph and size. how about you send an email to the manufacturers and argue that with them... http://www.marinedepot.com/cr_korallin.htm http://www.korallin.de/limeng.htm

i agree with reef, the idea is to let your tank go through these stages so you get the right levels of nitrifying and denitrifying bacteria growing in your tank. they will build up slowly - dont try and rush this process too much by putting in additives yet. also your rock will go through various stages of unwanted algae over the next 6 months, and even beyond that! just let everything settle in first naturally! would not bother with a TDS meter if you have a new RODI unit, i almost guarantee the water is pure, a TDS meter is more important to know when to replace the filters. my TDS meter still shows 75 in, 0 out - and i havent changed filters for over a year!

4:24am???!!!

Update Mon night: Mg 1050 (added 1 cup of Mg) kH 5.2 (added 3 heaped tblspoons baking soda diluted in 1 liter water) Ca 380 (increased bubble rate from 1 every 2-3 seconds to 1 per second) Tues night: Mg 1110 (added 1.5 cups of Mg) kH 6.2 (added another 3 heaped tblspoons baking soda diluted in 1 litre water) Ca 380 (nothing) Weds night: Mg 1170 (added 1.5 cups of Mg) kH 6.7 (nothing) Ca 370 (nothing) Thurs night: Mg 1200 (added 1.5 cups Mg) kH 6.1 (nothing) Ca 350 (nothing) Fri night: Stablised reactor bubble rate at 1 per sec, drip rate 1 per second 15% water change (tested 5 hours later) Mg 1140 (nothing) kH 6.4 (added 3 heaped tblspoons baking soda diluted in 1 liter water) Ca 370 (nothing)

water in same as usual, however effluent out the top. circulation pump creates the higher internal pressure