Is a calcium reactor really necessary to fire up the tank tough ? I'm not say you shouldn't get one, I'm just saying, do you need one right away, as a precursor to starting up the tank ?

Oh gosh no! haha. It will be up and wet this week. Just have to plumb the rest (which I will be starting tonight). And if everything goes to plan, the next thing I will be buying all the frikin bags of sand for the DSB.

I'm actually planning on cycling the fuge's before even adding livestock, so calcium reactor won't actually be required for a while.

I will add, that when you don't have the $$$ to buy everything new, everything else takes 3 times as long to do lol. I also have to acid bath all of the used LR i've been collecting for ages haha. Finding the time for all of this is just crazy.

Agree 1000 X's

Looking good so far, keep up the good work :)

Hey Kien, question for you...

When you had those two sumps under your 131 FOWLR add on, did the 3 bulkheads without valves work well to transfer water into the sump below? I was playing around with ideas last night, and I think that I would like to just have them all open and flowing with no valves.

Yes, they actually worked perfectly. Plus it wasn't that noisy at all. I think because the water flowed out of the bulkhead horizontally, then elbowed at 45 down into the next tank.

Question for you: Do you live in Erin Woods or were you working there yesterday around noon? I ran past a truck that had that Lucky-13 logo on the back. I thought of you.

Sorry, I just realized how awkward that sounds..

HAHAHAHAHAHA

No, I live in Douglasdale. Don't frequent Erin Woods at all. And Although I do love the brand, I don't rock it on either of my vehicles :wink:

BUT... thanks for thinking of me!

That's what I thought. I've never ever seen that logo other than in your avatar so I thought maybe it was yours. I didn't know it was a brand.

Mocked up the return pump plumbing. Do you think that I should keep the ball valves? I figured they would be handy to cut off water flow if I need to service the check valves.

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Also plumbed up the manifold pump and mocked up the fuge tank/frag tank plumbing

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