Discussion of the week DIY

[mojoreef]

OK this should be a great topic for the week. Lets see your DIY projects. big one, little ones (that should include Spanky lets see them all




MIke

[Rick O]

I've got tons of them. Trouble is I don't always photograph them during the building stage. I'll get some pics together of the finished products.

[Rick O]

This is a cannister filter I made out of 2" PVC and some fittings. I use it to run carbon. One end unscrews to add a mesh bag with carbon. Hook a Maxi-Jet to the clear tubing and drop the whole thing in the sump. Cost just a few bucks and only took about ten minutes to make.

[MyReef]

Looks good RIck....does that also double as a shower head? hahahahaha

[Stang69]

Cool Idea Rick. I never thought of something like that heheh

[Calvinc4s]

very cool

[Spanky]

OH FUDGE

I'll get the camera out. Rick I have two of those things too. One is for the intake on the Beckets. Good idea to cut down on house pollutants entering the tank.

spanks

[alf2]

OK so anybody do the diy on dripping kalk? If so I would love to see some pics! I know there are some ways to make one but I cant seem to find the diagram to do it. Ive read about using a bottle but not sure how to do it. Thanks

[oregon_gorge]

Dear Spanky,

How real is the indoor polution injection? Also, is there a way to quiet the air intake into our skimmer? It always sounds like a jet taking off.

Thanks, Chris

[mojoreef]

Anne is that you as Alf2? here is a DIY project by one of our members Bill Esposito. It is a real simple kalk stirer/reactor.
http://www.mv.com/users/besposito/nilsen.html

Here is another one done by chris paris using the bottle (i think this was the one you were taking about.
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~cap/raid/to...hon/index.html

hope it helps


mike

[alf2]

yep thats the one I was looking for. And yes its Annie I got to use my initals on this board lol Was taken on the other one lolol

[Spanky]

Chris, depending on what going on in the house, it can be very real. I you think about it, beckets suck in a lot a air and it's injected right into the system.

Let me see if I can describe what we did to the becket. The valve on the becket has a female thread intake. I got a fitting at the hardware that has a male nipple on it and fitted it with clear vinyl hose to the air filter. That also made it totally quiet.

Did I make sense?
Spanks

[oregon_gorge]

It will make sense when I look up what a Becket is and how it relates to what I have.

Thanks! Back to the monster. I am going to slay it today and get my plumbing working. I never had this problem with the others


Looks like its going to be a beeeeutiful day outside anyway

[Geoff]

Here are my currents ones. These are going on the 125g that is right behind them. This will be a built in setup ontop of our gas fireplace. The plywood board that it is all sitting on is total amount of space I can use for all equipment. I have been working on these pieces for the past 5 months.

This is the Kalk Reactor. It will be fed directly from the Crawl Space Below (Basement) using a RO/DI plumbed into the house water system. This is also the top-off device for the tank.

G~

[Geoff]

Here is a pic. of the skimmer. It will get its water supply from an old HO wet/dry that is now doing duty on my 55. I will modify the wet/dry to act as a sump just in case of power failure. The skimmer will then dump into the refugium.

G~