Hey look it's day light out side & I'm sitting in front of the PC:)
I hate working Saturday mornings, just thought I'd mention that & get the facts out of the way before I start prattling on about stuff. First bitch of the day? Firefox wont load the reply box & I cant see the chat on the front page. Working OK in Opera tho. Another thing out of the way!
Kinda haven't been putting pics up as its usually late & still to much to do lol. Will throw some up now & hopefully catch up to the dribble from the last few posts.
So where did we get up to? skimmer plumbing? Oh yeah, found a place that has converting couplings that go from the Octopus grey PVC-U merican size to standard Ozzie size pipe. That makes it easier to keep some spare stuff about the place. Brought near everything they had in the metric size for future tho, just in case. Only took a couple of pics, so unlike me lol.
Do you know how hard it is trying to get a pic looking up under the tank! :mad:
Cleaned out the sump of live rock also. Kinda had to so we could get the pumps in for the reactor's.
So from right to left, DT into sump with I think about 20-30Kg of rubble. Then skimmer pumps 2x 5000Ltr units that haven't missed a beat in the year that they have been running, nothing else in here. Skimmer returns are in the next chamber, this is also the spare live rock holding area lol. Helps stop a bit of the splashing. Next chamber is where the reactor pumps are, 2x 4800Ltr units. Then there is the Melton Crab Hotel section. Cant say he's a little bugger either, how big do these blue swimmer crabs get again?? bastard has grown since he made himself at home. Have to watch your fingers when feeding him to! :rolleyes especially when you decide to tease him lol. Last chamber has the return pump in there. 8900Ltr jobbie. Got this with the tank so no idea how old it is. It's on the list to be replaced, has been for about a year, picked up a 1400Ltr pump to replace this one, but not sure if once again I got carried away & it will be to big.
Dropped 2Kg of Rowaphos in one of the reactors about two weeks ago. This stuff is the shit aint it! If there was a magic bullet then it would have to be this stuff. Within days the algae on the rear wall was getting lighter. Now you can hardly see it was there.
Why is it I can made something half decent with metal, but screw it all up when it comes to working with timer???
15Kg worth of magic ammunition.
Reactor running with 2Kg Rowaphos.
Reckon there is room for about another 13Kg. Once a year media change! I like that idea, now just have to work out something along the same lines for a once a year water change :eek
Picked up a Avast Marine Davey Jones Skimmate Locker. Has one of those flash relay things hooked up to a pressure switch that turns off the skimmer pumps so nothing over flows & stinks out the house! The smell of skimmate is worse then my bloody feet after being locked up in leather work boots in the middle of summer all day!
About the only thing left to show n tell is the hole left over for the RO tank.
Should be able to get a decent size tank in there. Anyone selling 2ft tank?? :)
Well I'm off to get water for the change, so if you two will excuse me, don't let the door hit your arse on the way out :p
Might put some more pics up later on this afternoon if I get time.
Hooroo.
