Taking the plunge...

[ldzielak]

Dez,

I was thinking about the up flow design and I can't wait to see your pictures. I was thinking of using a bunch of bioballs at the top as a filter to keep the media from entering the intake (they would need to be glued together).

So the real question is does it work.

Lee

[Delphinus]

Lee:

Great looking setup.

Where'd you find the flowmeter? Hey you know what, I work at a company that supplies pipelines with .... oh wait never mind about that :P

Seriously though, some more questions. How much time elapsed from your first picture up there to these more recent pictures? Your media has disappeared (or did you take some out)?

What size acrylic did you use for the flanges?

What's the plumbing in the background? The T with two P-traps or something. Skimmer?

[ldzielak]

Tony

The flowmeter is for CL02 service, no metal parts at all on it. I had a 316SS one before, but I had a rust like deposit building up on it.

Original pictures are from about 1 year ago (Maybe 10 months). I changed the media, because I did not have enough flow through it even with the MAG7. It took me 1 hour to rinse the milk out of the media, but I have not put it back it. So I guess if you don't have enough flow, it could work when the media is fresh, but later down the road it will only get worse. I had a sponge in the bottom that cause all the problems. But in 6 months, I did use 4 inches of media.

I purchased the large flanges from Titus. The seals he sent never worked to my satisfaction, so I went with the O-rings. I real fat one on the big chamber. The acrylic is 3/8" but I find the large flange should have been 1/4" to work better with my big O-ring.

Yes that is the back side of my ETSS 800 Skimmer you can see.
Skimmer from back, before CA reator
Front of Skimmer (Day 1)
In the other pictures you can see the Iwaki 55RLT I use on the skimmer.

Lee