My New Toy

[Jason McK]

Originally Posted by niloc16

good job jason. i've been seriously contemplating upgrading to a BK. what is you model rated for? has anyone heard them running. my H&S is quiet but it is still the loudest part of the system and if the BK's are quieter then it is a good selling pitch for the wife

It's rated for 317G to 793G but that is from a retailers site not Royal. I have yet to fire it up but it does have a air silencer on it

J

[Tom R]

Hi Jason

I can not wait to see that puppy in action. If hooked up to the GVRD water system we would probably have cleaner water all the way out here in Cloverdale.

Tom R

[seanoman]

Jason, Have you contacted Hidden Reef about the PVC piece, just ask for Marc and he should be able to do something for you instead of having to do an order from ontario.

Yeah Jason I can't wait to get this all setup and running too. All the threads I have ever read on these all have amazing reviews. And it's nice that the price finally came down to something reasonable aswell.

If anybody needs one contact HR and he will hook you up!

[Reefer Rob]

I made an adaptor for the metric PVC on my H&S skimmer to our standard PVC. Just take a piece of PVC pipe slightly larger than the metric size and heat it to 200 degrees in the oven. While it's still hot push it into the metric fitting. When it cools you have an adaptor.

[Jason McK]

Hey Seanoman,
I actually ordered the metric fittings from Ontario. Call me a loon but I like the idea of metric to metric. Of course I paid a lot more for a solution but....

[Joe Reefer]

Loon

[seanoman]

Hey sounds good Jason, just thought I would let you know so that you knew that there was another option. But yeah post some pics when you get it all setup I would love to see it running.

I wont have mine up for about a month or two, because I am just starting my tank build next week. But I am going to be doing a tank journal, so I will have lots of pics there.

As far as I know, we are the first in Canada to have received these units, so as much info that we can post will help others aswell.

Good luck with the setup!!

[Jason McK]

I know Ruth has had one or two now for some time. but don't know of anyone else. I'll try and get it up and running next week end. I opted for the cheapest shipping of the metric bits. so I'm not getting them until next week.
I have a lot of other tank projects under way.
1) new floor in the tank room
2) redo all the electrical
3) vent the entire fish room
all are under way and I havn't even got the honney do list for this week end yet

J

[seanoman]

Uh oh you better be on your best behaviour, so that the list doesn't continue to get bigger and bigger.