Recent content by richiev

If you pump water though two in series at 600gph, that's the same amount of dwell time as water going through two in parallel at 300gph. There's two roads that are 30 miles long running parallel to each other. The speed limit is 30mph. I send a car down each road. The cars will dwell on the...

I'm not completely sure that makes sense to me. There's likely some exposure curve to this, but if going slower doesn't matter that much, then generally there'd seem to be no reason to slow down flow either. Eg taken to the extreme, you might as well run full speed through the UV at max flow...

If you were running two, I would think in parallel is better. 600gph running through two in parallel is 300gph each. Less gph means longer dwell time. Longer dwell time means kill more stuff. If something gets through the first UV at 600gph why would it get killed by the second one?

I usually bring in a soft cooler. Will be a bummer if I start having to do the whole "leave it at the door" thing. That being said, this seems like a best case scenario for how this could've happened. Dude on 4k looking quality camera, obviously stealing. If anyone can get caught after a 1...

Zoas are pretty hardy. You can always do a high strength peroxide dip to clean em off. Either if you wanted to sell, or the next person who picks them up free, or getting em ready to try and sell to Neptune.

Future hack: if you have a gas stove or gas water heater you can float bags of hot water in the tank to try and boost the temp. Similar to floating bags/bottles of frozen water to cool it. A secondary electric source of course is an ideal, eg an ecoflow or a generator or just a neighbor you...

My experience is the inkbird probes. It starts as a little and then quickly tends to get out of control. One of mine I replaced the probe with another equivalent one bought from Amazon or AliExpress and it went back to normal. I am a big fan of frugality, but these inkbirds kill me. The Wi-Fi...

Can I get the chiller?

Do you own a multimeter? The most direct way to debug would be unplug both ends, connect the multimeter to both ends of the cable, and start wiggling things. When set to resistance mode, you should see it register 0 when the multimeter is connected to both ends. If the connection breaks, it'll...

Made some hexagon lights for my kids' desire to have a gamer room. Pretty stoked with how these turned out. 3d printed black outlines, white covers. Individually addressable LED light strips that I cut into 19 LED sections and soldered connectors to so it can be reshaped and pieces...

I'd take the drums. I might make one into a giant kalk reservoir.

such a pretty fish. I hope it works out!

If you're comfortable answering, how much did that AL for the stand cost? I assume it's cheaper than buying an equivalent, but that the raw material isn't cheap. My only comparison point is trying to buy t-slot AL which is crazy expensive.

From my experience, I'd toss another one under. Minimal to zero cost to do and can't hurt. If however it was to have sagging and weird seam pressure, who knows the implications. Even just a basic 2x4 standing vertically in the middle, though obviously harder with the sump in place. However, if...

Super cool stand work! I'm a little confused though. Super cool stand work then your tank is filled with rock and sand sitting on 2 sawhorses? I assume that's starboard underneath, but no concerns about the presumably temporary setup sagging and causing tank issues? I did a temporary setup with...