High Tide Aquatics

3rd time's a charm 85g Rimless tank

2x JEBAO PP8 DC Controllable wave pumps

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Coming along nicely - you have been busy. What are you running with the 3 valves in the return line? Waiting to see where the dosing containers go - what are you dosing besides Ca, Alk, and I guess Mg?
 
MolaMola said:
Coming along nicely - you have been busy. What are you running with the 3 valves in the return line? Waiting to see where the dosing containers go - what are you dosing besides Ca, Alk, and I guess Mg?
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I will be dosing AQUAFOREST COMPONENT 1+2+3+ (Ca/MG/kH and trace+Strontium) then I will add on the next 2 bottles with the slave dozer (future) Aminoacids and some form of coral food COMPONENT A+B+C. all from AQUAFOREST recommended chart.

as for the 3 valves, 1 is for the UV Sterilizer, the 2nd is going to be for a Dual Carbon & GFO Mini Reactors I am making and the 3rd will be spare for future needs.


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ofzakaria said:
This manifold is scary lol.
Just make sure you are not compromising and end up having low return flow rate. Nothing kill a reef like a slow return flow.
Reeferwa under estimate it sometimes only to deal with high nutrients and low reef health regardless of how good their mechanical filtration in the sump is...

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That's why I choose the DCP -5000, it should have plenty of flow to keep up with the add-on UV and reactors

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jmcastaneda1974 said:
That's why I choose the DCP -5000, it should have plenty of flow to keep up with the add-on UV and reactors

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Well just watch out.
Yoi will be suprised how bad dc pumps behave under simple head pressure.
Do not refer to the spec only to decide what your flow is..
I have tested many pumps using accurate flow meter under the same setup..
Many results where shocking. As an example: vectra 3100gph pump, it was barely 900gph on 2 meter straight head pressure.
With dc pumps only abyzz and red dragon were good on their spec.
Ac pumps were mostly good especially syncra
Vectra, neptune pump were the worst in term of what is spec'ed on the box vs what you get with head preasure...


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ofzakaria said:
Well just watch out.
Yoi will be suprised how bad dc pumps behave under simple head pressure.
Do not refer to the spec only to decide what your flow is..
I have tested many pumps using accurate flow meter under the same setup..
Many results where shocking. As an example: vectra 3100gph pump, it was barely 900gph on 2 meter straight head pressure.
With dc pumps only abyzz and red dragon were good on their spec.
Ac pumps were mostly good especially syncra
Vectra, neptune pump were the worst in term of what is spec'ed on the box vs what you get with head preasure...


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I will keep an eye on the flow, I tried to keep it as simple return as possible to reduce as much turns as posible

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