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I noticed right away, that there is going to be a color difference. The Blue tort has a purple hue to it under these lights, it actually looked like a magenta color if I turned the blue off on the old fixture. Since there is no optics or lenses on the LED's, there is a good blend of the colors...

In your case I'd go with the single reactor. It would probably be best to mix your GAC and GFO together in a ratio of about 2 parts GAC to 1 part GFO, this way the GFO won't need to tumble, and you'll get better use from it. I also think you'd be better off in the future with individual...

They stack very nicely.

You might look into the Seaside Aquatics skimmers, basically a BM using a Sicce pump.

^^bump^^ I'll be attending this month's meeting, so I can bring anything along.

Thanks Kyle. I really hope my "trial and error" period has come to an end.

I've always had to mount the fixtures into my canopy lid, so they are no more than ~ 5" off the surface of the water. The first set of LED's I installed were 120 degree lenses, and were fine. I think you may get a better blend of light if you're using a full spectrum fixture without any optics...

No optics or even lenses on these. The previous set had 32 90's and 16 60's on each fixture. What size tank?

Latest installment, as George mentioned is an Aquabeauty 105W from eshine (G5), the previous was the eshine G4 mould 2 series. The T-5 was a 6 lamp TEK fixture, supplemented with some Ecoxotic stunners and Panorama's. The first LED's were Blueline 120W supplemented with a couple Ecoxotic...

Thanks George. I haven't programmed these lights yet, so what you're seeing is the default setting right out of the box(everything is at 100%). It has a built in controller, so I still have to set everything, including the ramping times.

I just installed my 5th set of lights on this tank(since 2005). Here is a pictorial sequence, starting with the latest fixtures: These are good lights, but the optics were too tightly focused for the height I had to work with. My attempt at T-5's. My first LED's. These were good...

This sounds backwards to me, I would think off would be closed.

Not to be critical of ESV, I'm sure it's a fine product, and works well. Here is an analysis I did using the pharmaceutical grade chemicals from BRS: 1 gallon of dry Calcium Chloride is $17.09 @ BRS. Using recipe #1 it yields about 7 gallons of solution which works out to $2.40 per gallon...

By "off" do you mean your gate valve is closed? I don't have a RO, but I believe they all work the same, the more I close my water discharge (gate valve), the higher the water gets in my reaction chamber, and if too high it will begin to overflow into the cup.

Looks good Dan, have you ever considered doing your own two part? Saves a lot of $$$.

Lights are sold, please close. Thank you.

I don't see any significant difference in the tank, but my meter show a higher pH, by about .2, i.e. instead of 7.8 to 8.1 it's about 8 in the AM to 8.3 in the PM.

It appears I'm getting about a week out of a full cartridge. According to the BRS web site, you're supposed to get 7 refills out of 9 lbs. of the media. Using these numbers, I should get about 29 refills out of a bucket of the media from Wayfair. The cost works out to around $4.00 per week, in...

It might be prudent to remove some of the water from your sump to make room for the additional water. Are you using socks on your overflows?

I make about 25 gal. per week, for top off and WC's on a 180. I replace my sediment about every 3 month's, my carbon block about every 6 month's, and my DI resin about once a year. My current unit is about 3 years old, and I have yet to replace the membrane. The quality of your raw water will...