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    Julius' CDA 150 Build

    My 7 year old daughter will be devastated. Eggs are attached to class. What options do I have?
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    Julius' CDA 150 Build

    Wow saw clown fish eggs in the tank. what do I need to do to prepare? Where to buy baby food (rotifers)?
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    Julius' CDA 150 Build

    My H380 died. I am using a 12w PAR38 LED bulb as a short term fix. Saw ebay has those hanging rectangle shaped grow light ranging from 45w-1000w+. What wattage will be right for me? Will 200w be too much? If dimmible, will power consumption be lower when dimmed? Refugium is 17”x13”, light will...
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    Julius' CDA 150 Build

    Turns out the network connection via Dlink wireless bridge was not stable. Purchase TP-link ethernet over power-line devices, never missed a beat in 4 months!
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    What's the quietest return pump available these days?

    I love reef octopus dc pumps. I ran the previous generation (3500 and 5500), and plan to buy a varios 8 when funds avail. Cleaning every 8-10 months, no issue.
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    Julius' CDA 150 Build

    Adding some charts from Apex to help with diagnostics. There were two of the same events this morning, first happened 6:36am, and second about 3 hours later. Let's focus on the first one only. The question is why I did not receive an alarm email when the return pump turned to OFF. 1st photo...
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    Julius' CDA 150 Build

    Help me root cause pls. I got following messages every few days. It states the Apex warning is now turned off and all equipment good? But there was no earlier alarm about which equipment had issue. I have an UPS providing DC power to Apex. Status: OFF Statement: Set OFF Date: 2019-12-08...
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    What would be your dream tank?

    Then plumbed to the backyard, where the tides come in daily for an auto water change.
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    Julius' CDA 150 Build

    So my very first Triton test result came back. Here is the link you can see the report: https://www.triton-lab.de/en/showroom/aquarium/auswertung-b/icp-oes/71624/ It shows two elements too high in the red zone. I'd love to hear any of you had these issues before and what caused them in your...
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    Julius' CDA 150 Build

    I saw some good varieties of see weeds washed up at beach. Would u add them to refugium? I collected some and add sea water to a bucket. Noticed many pods little critters, just tad larger and darker in color.
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    Julius' CDA 150 Build

    Correct. Bubbles kept growing over a day or two, then pump gets noisier. Pump lost priming in one case.
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    Julius' CDA 150 Build

    Geo 612 After purging co2, I did 30ml/min with 20 bubbles/min overnight. No excess bubbles this morning (yet) but effluent’s ph is high at 6.50. It needs to go down to 6.2-6.3.
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    Julius' CDA 150 Build

    Have a strange problem - too many air bubbles in co2 reactor. Do not think there is a leak of air. Increase effluent flow rate from 20ml/min to 30ml/min will help but reactor’s ph goes to 6.50+. The ARM media I use seems to need as low as 6.2 to dissolve well. At 6.50, effluent’s alk is below...
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    Julius' CDA 150 Build

    I have Synergy sump, which is also "euro braced" and both fuge and return chamber have acrylic lid. The skimmer chamber has no screen, so I could mount a small fan there. But I wonder if adding fan to top of display tank will be more effective. Attached is a photo of the top of display tank. I...
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    Julius' CDA 150 Build

    Any recommendation of how to mount a cooling fan that look clean on top of euro braced rimless tank? There is a DIY screen top. It is my CDA 150 gallon.
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    GFCI Reminder (and current monitors, and redundancy)

    Jccaclimber, By “over and under current protection”, do u mean an apex outlet can be coded to shutoff based on current drawn? What will the codes be like?
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    Julius' CDA 150 Build

    I am probably over thinking, which sometimes is the fun part of the hobby :) Yeah, I will try to get the effluent dhk right before considering adding 2nd chamber.
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    Julius' CDA 150 Build

    Turns out the effluent's alk is only 8.1 dhk. Ph probe in ca reactor reads ~6.50, 18 bubbles/min, and flow rate was 60ml/min. I think my ph probe reading is probably not correct. Plan to keep co2 on 24x7 regardless ph probe reading, and reduce flow rate down gradually until alk for effluent...
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    Julius' CDA 150 Build

    How to measure cal reactor effluent with dhk ~25 with Hanna whose range is up to 20dhk max?
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    Julius' CDA 150 Build

    I did remove the head and just let the main unit run. Noise was still present.
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