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Good point !
They stopped manufacturing the union on my geo along time ago! Tried numerous Dn15 unions with no luck! To bad the mating threads are different from brand to brand on unions.. This cr612 is a secondary chamber so only option is to buy a new $100 lid with the updated union unless I just use alota glue or silicone on another brand union to permanently attach..Heat gun won't work getting the old union off the lid looks like acrylic glue.
Geo sells your unions!
 
PjFish said:
Good point !
They stopped manufacturing the union on my geo along time ago! Tried numerous Dn15 unions with no luck! To bad the mating threads are different from brand to brand on unions.. This cr612 is a secondary chamber so only option is to buy a new $100 lid with the updated union unless I just use alota glue or silicone on another brand union to permanently attach..Heat gun won't work getting the old union off the lid looks like acrylic glue.
Geo sells your unions!
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Ive used this with pretty good success. I had to "drill" off the old pipes from the bushings of my uv. Just drill the pipe off your lid.

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150 Gallon

We have lights! Well one light so far. I was just gonna use RMS arms sitting on top of the side of the tank, but thought hanging would look better. Still need to plug in the two xr30 and get a couple of xr30 mounts from a buddy he has laying around the garage .

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I got lazy and used the garage door track rail.
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RandyC said:
150 Gallon

We have lights! Well one light so far. I was just gonna use RMS arms sitting on top of the side of the tank, but thought hanging would look better. Still need to plug in the two xr30 and get a couple of xr30 mounts from a buddy he has laying around the garage .

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I got lazy and used the garage door track rail.
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Let there be light! I got the other mounts and all the lights are up now. I've never been blamed for having too little lights.

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Seeing around 450 on the top of the rocks in the middle and between 225-300 on the sandbed depending how close you are to the glass.

I ran out of wire sleeves for my wire crimper and got those in today, so without any actually planning ahead with @derek_SR, I added eyelets to the end of the cables instead of the janky nuts I had holding it up the same day he fixed his the exact same way.
 
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Torch Tank

I've never "formally introduced" these tanks, but I have two IM30 tanks that share a sump that house all my torches. It's around 60-70 gallons of total water volume. And being that I was just using what was on hand (read: hoarding), I set this up to replenish the calcium carbonate in the tank.

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:p Yes, complete overkill, but hey, save money and use what you got right? Well, now that I need a calcium reactor for the 150 Gallon, I needed to repair my leaking Geo nano calcium reactor.

It had a leak where the connector locks the impeller in place. But to be honest, I hate sicce syncha silent pumps because they're typically anything but silent and I think the connector is really not great for a hanging design that Geo had.

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So I decided to hack up the recirculating manifold and refit it for a tiny brushless 24V DC pump. The pump was variable speed (5W-28.8W), but didn't come with a controller so I'm just using an adjustable power adapter.

So here's what it looks like now.

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This thing is pretty quiet at low speeds, but can be loud if running at the full 28.8W. I'm only running it around 5.2W and it's damn quiet. We'll see about longevity, but it's an inexpensive pump and threaded, so easily replaced should it fail.

So now the old school Geo 618 calcium reactor is freed up for the 150 gallon. Almost time to put some acros in that beast. :)

Here's the pump and power supply I got.



I'm sure though, y'all are more interested in what the tank looks like.

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