GFO Question

I'll post it. I spoke with Jon Warner for quite some time about it and read posts and reviews on it.

Just search for ecobak in 3reef's search. There is a lot here.

M

 

I actually wanna get some myself when the time calls....

Im cycling my tank now... and probably wont have a need for it for about another 6 months

glad your getting some.... powermans thread turned me onto it

 

Jon Warner said they received their labels today and would be updating the website very soon. Should be for sale in the very near term.

M

 

i to have the same setup of reactors. and i also experienced difficulties with flow. i used the calculater on their website for proper GFO amounts and found this to be to much for the reactor to handle. I dialed back the amount so that when my reactor is turned on for the first time after media change it has room for expansion. I am using a little giant pump (400 gph) i wanted to make sure i have enough head pressure) i only restrict the flow by about 1/4 turn. Also i received with mine what i assumed were the stock cannisters (i ordered an extra set). However, the original ones were different in that the foam pad located opposite the screw on end was a dense filter material. The other pads were a porous foam. my first attempt at setup i used these not noticing the dense end. Was way confused as to why i had no flow. could not understand why i had now water discoloration at enitial start-up. Thought i was plugged because of the amount of GFO suggested. So i changed out that canister only. went with a little less media and started it up again. but after only an hour or so my output was once again almost non-existant. if i remember correctly i figured it would have taken like 40 some hours to cycle through all of my water volume (140 gal). to make a long story short i changed out the carbon cannister with the extra one and "poof" i had water flow! So i use about 3/4 of a cannister of GFO and change it every two weeks. I'm not totally impressed with how good this reactors capability to do the job i need it to do is. I have algae issues which leads me to believe that this reactor is inadiquite for my volume of water. i'm hoping that as my macro-algae gets larger it will be able to a more efficiant job. well i hope this was helpful and best of luck

 

I never had an issue with fines building up on the sponge past the GFO. Then again, my sponges seem to be the lower density ones, so that foam may be the issue for you guys.

 

i no longer have the fines issue because i dont use the cannisters that came with the reactors. i set my flow to tumble the GFO slightly. The carbon cannister i use the extra pad from the other canister so i have to at the top to prevent accidental passage of carbon media. Seems to be working ok. would have been nice to know the capacity limits when i purchased these units. well i hope my fuge can catch up soon. Am thing to use use chem-pure bags for additional help with the layer of green film algae i have to scrape off my glass each day. not to mention the other algae's i have in my sandbed and on my LR. Growing pains of uprading to a bigger tank i suppose.