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I have been posting about my beta version CPR reactor in another thread, where I've explained filling it with T.L.F. de-nitrating pellets, but now I'd like to share with y'all the story of the interaction of that reactor with the Tunze skimmer that had been my only filtration previously. (Except...

Latest on the beta version nano de-nitrator Wow. I'm staring at this little tank that looks like it's filled with sunlight. Never had a tank so clear. My Salifert nitrate reading was 1.5. I had to remove half the bio-pellets I had put in the little unit, because they were 'fluidizing' so...

How the nano de-nitrator is working in its first week I can't say whether the milkyness of the tank on the first day after turning on the reactor filled with Two Little Fishies biopellets was because of the levels of nitrate in the tank (we were warned this might happen) or because we had just...

continuing news of our CPR beta release nano reactor We set up the little thing loose in our tank, leaning against the back wall, so that we could get a pic of the thing in proportion to a 29 gal cube. We filled it half way with 2 Little Fishies denitrating biopellets and turned it on...

It came, very punctually from its EBay source. If you wish to know what it looks like running alone, check on Youtube.Many images available. It had decent documentation for a Beta unit, but in my LFS I could find only a Chemi-Pure medium for de-nitration which turned into a coal-dust mess...

water changes Hey Northstar - I never thought a de-nitrator would eliminate water changes. Right now we do between 20 -50% of change weekly. Having a 29 gallon tank makes it not too much trouble. But still, it's almost impossible to keep my nitrates consistantly below 10. No phosphates...

Bless you, Northstar. I have patience. Can continue with my huge weekly water changes until they hit the market. They look perfect.

Little_Fish, I am saying I want to BUY a working reactor, not set something up wrongly. I'm just asking people in the forum what is the smallest effective one for sale. That's all.

The Marineland Reef Capable I'm using a 18-24" reef capable LED resting on the glass of my cube 29 galloner. I have to move it back and forth during the day and keep folds of wax paper underneath because it seems to burn the corals - even the acro's. We've now made a little open canopy out of...

Hi all - I had this idea about turning the mid section of my tiiny built-in sump into a primitive reactor. The feedback was that this would be ineffective as there would be no spinning or pummelling of the pellets. Which leaves me to ask y'all: What is the smallest reactor container made. I...

Bertie is back with another strange idea. I have this much re-formed Biocube 29, which now has in its middle section back sump a Tunze skimmer and a few rocks. What if I were to make the half of the section, which is now nothing but an empty plastic rectangle, into its own de-nitrator, by...

I'm thinking of buying a little shelf of acrylic or pvc or some plastic which I can glue to the plastic back of my tank to make a small area of shadow, both to shelter the fish and so I can grow something which doesn't want the heavy LED canopy lights. I'm sure there must be something available...

One more late response to your article on the scrubber.. I am very interested in an algae scrubber, because it is such a perfectly elegant idea - like a bicycle, it is appropriate technology, simple and natural. But I am at a bit of a loss, having only a 6 month old, ripped apart and re-done...

I know most people live on a public drain system, and dump their residue from water changes down the drain, but we have a septic tank, and that is not a workable solution to us. We also live in the woods, and have been dumping our used salt water along our 1/8 mile driveway. But I don't want...

Seems Hanna doesn't make a nitrate test, but only a nitrite one. (Odd, that!) So I've ordered a Salfert and hope my poor critters survive the 40% water changes twice a week to bring me back down to the under 10% which is my goal. Thanks to everyone for all your help. It seems that one...

The kits I've been using are API. I'm on the third, as they seem to get contaminated or something, although I've done a fair amount of laboratory work and try not to let equipment touch or roll.API is the only brand offered by my LFS, but I will look up Hanna. We'd be willing to go in for the...

Three times this past year I've had a titrate-style nitrate measurement kit start giving wrong signals - not suddenly off, but slowly becoming less accurate so that I wound up with a tank reading of 40 on the nitrate scale when I bought a new kit to test the one that was placidly giving me 5 or...

Re: the 'ugly' seahorse. "He's dead, Jim!' * * Bones McCoy, Star Trek ship's doctor

Concerning the mandarin - I thought I'd put one in my 30 gal, because this one was tankraised - handraised, really - and would eat from an eyedropper in my hand. Despite all my rules about 'The tank is the pet, not any particular creature in it" and 'fish loss is inevitable' I got very...

Cheezer! Thank you! Don't say skimmers are relatively simple, because Tunze told us that twisting our impeller off by 1 mm would wreck it, but sometimes their problems are. We had the same problem you did, in a different form. We put our skimmer in the s'getti pot to see where the bubbles...