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hey bro! how r u man! so long no see still as hamsup as ever? hahaha KIDDING La ok i took a video of the fluidising of the rowalith media. u need quicktime to view this. sorry ah but i filmed it with the camera held up so u haf to turn your head to see the CR upright in any case, when i used the ian's CR also got the same fluidising leh. then bro, i know u r using CR...lol, so yours no fluidising? wat CR u using? but wat i wan to sae is i think it also depends on the media u use? i'm not sure on this but i suppose if the media is heavier it doesn't fluidise. i only used rowalith before so... 100_1986.MOV

hey man your pump feeding to the chiller is waaaay too slow esp after reaching the top nothing flowing leaw cl650 needs sth like 2000L/hr, so maybe u wanna consider eheim 1260 which does 2400l per hr, oh u use 1260 for your return and use the 2800l/hr pump for the chiller IMO, 2 return pumps is good incase 1 fails there's alwaes another to back up. trust me, happen to me twice leaw....i feel the extra investment in another pump is worth it u should aim for minimum 6times turnover rate for the 2 return pumps combined hope this helps!!!

DSB good skimmer reduce feeding denitrator my personal preferences, good skimmer and reduce feeding

here's another shot for an alternative view

ok tigger, here's a view of the smart thingee that AM came up with on the left is a hole where the water output tubing goes and on the right is a while where the ph probe sits in nicely. water from the CR willl collect in this device and will flow out via another hole hence ensuring that your ph probe is always immersed in the effluent. what i like most is that it seats nicely on the sump's glass wall

yo tigger, 1) the CR doesn't come with a ph probe mount BUT AM very smart, they've come up with a neat device to do that. lemme take a photo and post it later on. 2)the CR is fluidising, made possible with the eheim 1250 pump which only draws a low low 28W 3)this CR features co2 recirculation but in the event that excess co2 really builds up, unfortunately, this is one of the drawbacks i mentioned earlier. it doesn't have this co2 bleeding feature. but i figured out a simple method. somewhere in between tube which brings the co2 back for recirculation, a Y or T valve can be added in and turned on to release the excess co2. i haven't tried this method personally la but maybe i will pay the fish shop a visit later and try to see if this method works and maybe post it up here 4)pmed you!

lastly, regarding its internal capacity, i filled the CR about 1/2 full and that contains slightly more than 3kg of rowalith. this guy according to what i know should be able to support up to 4feet sps tank. this remains to be seen as i proceed on with sps-ing my tank. but for now, i hope this review has helped those who are pondering whether its good. any problems feel free to voice it here, i will try my best to answer. also i hope to do further reviews as i start to tune it tomorrow, currently its still under ovenight leak test

pros: very simple design, plug and play, much attention paid to nitty gritty stuff, craftsmanship is good, relatively small, light, large base offers hugh stability, extremely simple to use cons: there were some things i thought could be improved on. 1: lack of air bleeding. meaning when u first fill up the CR with water, there's bound to be bubbles trapped in the media and sponge. when the eheim kicks in, these bubbles start to collect at the top. but there's no air bleeding port to get rid of them. such air bleeding features are found in some other CR solution: actually this isn't a very big prob as a valve can be installed at the top where the blue tube for recirculation of co2 is at and the air can be drained off. but if it can be incooperated into the design then save trouble la of manual bleeding la 2: recirculation pump is abit hard to dismantle for regular cleaning or even to clear the pump incase it gets choked from fine media particles. i faced this problem with both previous 2 CR i used so i thought this is quite an important point to note. solution: u'd either haf to be very good with eheim pump design and know wat to do or else prevention must be taken. if using media that has small particles like rowalith, care must be taken not to fill it up too much, i filled the CR to about 1/2 full and no problems there! if using media with larger particles then no problems there!

the base is large and everything is mounted on it, namely the 6" reaction chamber and the eheim 1250 recirculation pump craftmanship is excellent. the bottom pic shows 2 strips of soft i beleive some kind of polymer on which the eheim 1250 is mounted on. i believe its for vibration absorption to keep the pump running quietly. 2 thumbs up for such attention to nitty gritty stuff

here u see some features of the CR (top left)my personal favourite: needlevalve output for precise contrl of effluent drip rate top right: the co2 counter, notice that the colour of the inlet is yellow instead of blue. i believe this was part of the design to let the user easily distinguish between gaseous and fluid in/outlets. bottom left and right:the left photo shows the gap between the acrylic flanges being filled up by another piece of acrylic. i dunno what this improvement was for but perhaps its to make the reactor look nicer? i do not know. the right shows the gap in a beckett to accomodate for the similar o-ring design.

just acquired a new Skimz CR1500 by chipson from aquamarin i like chipson, i like janet and steve and i like the CR, and hence my motivation to write the review (just kidding) i hope as i write this review i can show the pros and cons along the way personally, i like simple equipments, i had tried the korallin CR and ian's i-aquatic before but didn't like them much. NOT TO MEAN that they are not good, its just that i am a simple person who prefers simple equipment. the previoius 2 were abit too cheem for me pls forgive me for the messy bakground

nope not really hard to keep just feed it occasionally, leave it in a place where u see its tentacles sway ard i.e. moderate current or even low current and place it on sandbed and viola, it'll open up nice nice. frankly, its one of the least effort taking corals i've ever kept and of course, keep your water parameters in check

learnt sth new today! perhaps i can go get seafans to decorate my tank bro/sis, do u place the seafan in areas of high flow?

blue hues? r u refering to the blue t5? actually i'm using blue pro, not actinic. maybe that's y u saw blue hues

do anyone of u haf problems with tomini tang trying to steal food from corals when u feed corals? if not i think i can get it

lol bro so your mg wasn't so low afterall!!! false alarm...lol...moral of story is get good test kits alrite? prob 1: ph and kh low, u can try the seachem powder form chemical that boost ph to 8.3 one. can't remembe rthe name, it will boost ph and kh. every 3g/100L will boost ph by 0.9 and kh by 1.26 according to the instructions. so jus give your tank ph a boost to 8.2 is good 2:no3 super high. change water. and perhaps salt mix too. and if you're feeding alot cut that down. tune skimmer to wet skimmate and if possible get a bigger skimmer.i wouldn't recommend getting equip for no3 control cos its just more expenses...unless u rich la...lol. and personally i prefer solving the root of the problem 3:po4 way too high. get FR and po4 media and suck them out. your lr can actually absorb po4 and in the future leech them out giving u problems 4: mg high ca high nevermind. will drop one so dun worry bout them hope this helps u bro!

becos of the inadequate cycling, from now on u must stock up slow at most 2 fishes a week in my opinion or else u gonna get bad repercusions

i also pmed u before ice cold did. pls check thanks

upz for u bro here's to help specs : pressure rated, 120W, 4320L/hr good silent pump, using one myself

i 2nd that bro seafan, sea squirt, sea apple, sponge, all i stay clear

sun coral for $5/- wah which shop? the sun coral how big? hey ivor, i got some zoos to give if u wan to try its only a small bunch of about 3 polyps. you can haf it FOC to try try see if they can survive. if they can then u can try other softies if u interested pls pm me

nowadays salifert alot out of stock po4 i also seraching for also out of stock pisses me off cos i got algae bloom. dunno wat supplier doing lets hope they bring in the stocks soon

hmmm cauliflower is filter feeder. it needs loads of plankton to survive. sad to say i don't know anyone who has succeeded with it...simply cos its too tough to provide the supply of plankton without comprising water quality

bro, no offense la but i've personally had problems with kh and Ca dropping very fast everyweek and i didn't knwo the problems. i quick search on the net revealed that Mg has a close connection with such a problem and when i tested, sure enough my Mg (which i had neglected for several months) was at 700ppm. you can try as best to fix your kh and ph but without the proper ionic balance of 3:1 ratio of Mg:Ca, your kh and ph problem will simply resurface faster than u can sae "problem fixed" it is my believe tat Mg is a major source of his problems since we see that he has problems with ph, kh, both of which are closely tied to Mg ATlantis: i agree with loster, get a reliable test kit to test for your mg, although i believe its low, i dun think its THAT low...lol...275ppm is so low i would tihnk sth wrong with the test kit

yeah u can get henry to test for u and tok to him