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That's what sensors, alarms, fallbacks and fallsafes are for
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Horace, as you move forward, assuming you will, please keep us informed as to what you find. I saw where you were asking about motorized valves and that looks to be at least one expensive part, especially if you need 2 or 3.
I haven't seriously looked at the idea yet as I have my hands full doing a couple of projects already (bathroom shower stall complete rebuild and hot rod car suspension mods!). But I like this filter idea a lot and once I get caught up, I'll be working on one. shifty, it's just fresh water running through the valve, not salt water. And all that water (except for a tiny amount caught in the sand) is drained from the system. The amount of copper picked up in the tanks would be absolutely miniscule! Now it wouldn't be a big deal to swap it out, but I wouldn't worry about it for a second. I had salt water running through 2 small brass elbows at the siphon breaks in my return from the sump for years. A) I never had any issues in the tank B) the brass never showed any signs of corrosion. I've since changed them out for plastic John Guest fittings.
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So after googling alternatives to filter socks, I found this:
http://www.bulkreefsupply.com/automa...-theiling.html While it is pretty spendy, this may just be what im looking for. Its got automation built in....and it removes the garbage before it has a chance to break down. While this is going to have an on going, more expensive cost, it may just be the ticket for those of you like me looking for a way to ditch the socks!
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I know from experience that the sand filter catches finer material than my filter socks used to. I'm not even running a skimmer anymore at all now and my water is crystal clear. Something I only used to see when the filter sock was nearly plugged and with flow turned way down so it wasn't bypassing. I kinda wonder how fine that roll thing will catch.
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I don't like to filter fine particles. I consider that to be starving the tank of planktonic life.
It's a personal philosophy, but I'll give up absolute clarity in exchange for rapid growth.
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I have the same problem. I can't sell my frags fast enough and have accepted that some will die due to inter-coral aggression.
I'm creating a table of combat outcomes. The particles in the water are constabtly being captured by the extended polyp tentacles.
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Yeah they sell a conversion kit...I bought that too. Because I have a fish room, space is simply not an issue, so this was a no brainer
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CM, is everything still working to your expectations?
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This is a very cool idea and gives me some ideas on how to filter the future FOWLR. The choice of pool sand makes me a little worried due to silica... but that is easily changed out. And you could always pump RO/DI water from a reservoir instead of tap water and that eliminates the problems Horace brought up. I think that may actually be easier to set up that way to be honest. Very cool, once again. And sweet tank!
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It looks very cool indeed
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Did you post the particle size? I may have missed it?
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i would bet that using some reefflakes would work just fine...they are fairly large in size, and obviously reef safe and not silica based.
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I guess I was really asking the OP.
cabinetman?
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And this is a message board so don't ask a question and not expect people to jump in....that is the entire purpose if a forum... community input
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I'm good with that. I just want the feedback from the OP too... more is always better.
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I did a vid showing it a page or 2 back
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