Anyone have an RO/DI canister explode?

[Salty Cracker]

Coralife RO/DI... one of the prefilter canisters split nearly in two...made one hell of a mess in the furnace room.  Anyone every have this happen??

Time ot order a couple of replacements from BRS....yeesh, glad this wasn't upstairs in the laundry area, makes me thing I should be moving that setup too (or replacing the canisters as a preventative measure). 


YIKES! 

 

[Salty Cracker]

Glad I didn't leave it too long... it was starting to get wild in there. 

 

[theyangman]

 

[Salty Cracker]

Oh boy let me tell you, that explosion was real. 

 

[theyangman]

Your GFO idea sucks btw. No matter how I work it, my phosphates are not really going down.

I keep reading 0.28 ppm.

 

[Salty Cracker]

Your GFO idea sucks btw. No matter how I work it, my phosphates are not really going down.

I keep reading 0.28 ppm.

stop adding new coral every 10 minutes and let it adjust!!

Kidding aside, where did you get your base rock??  There's a GOOD chance you are pulling phosphate out of the rock.  Otherwise you have to go around and test all the things that store your water, like those awesome looking poly tanks.  pull a sample from there and test the phosphate.  I had a rubbermaid tub that read something insane like 2ppm (yes, 2ppm not .2ppm).  If it's not the rock, then it's being introduced somewhere.  I can't remember, do you use the hanna phosphate kits??

 

[theyangman]

I use hannnananannanaa checkers for phosphate

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[theyangman]

Base rock was marco dry rock from bill and the live rock was his as well from who knows where. He said it was good.

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[theyangman]

Ive only added 8 sps' over the last two weeks dude. I've slowed down a lot

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[Salty Cracker]

yep, grab a new box of reagents and start testing everything.  I couldn't get the phosphates to drop until I found that water tub issue. 

You can also try the hi-cap GFO.  I found it ripped the phosphate down really quick, and had to run that for probably 6 months before the rock stopped leeching it out into the water.  Then I went to the regular granular, and it's been .00 forever. 

 

[theyangman]

I do need to figure out my issues though, many of my sps are not nearly as vibrant as they were when I bought em.

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[Salty Cracker]

Base rock was marco dry rock from bill and the live rock was his as well from who knows where. He said it was good.

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We all know bill would never lie to make a sale, so it's got to be something else.  Mysis shrimp can be high in phosphate if you don't rinse.  You shouldn't be able to get .28 on a new tank with "good" rock unless it's coming from somewhere. 

 

[unibob]

haha at comment above. Yea I would assume something is leeching, even feeding Mysis on a big tank like yours you shouldn't be getting readings like that. I don't rise my food, and my phosphates are rarely above 0.08 in 57 gallons of water with 12 fish and more coral then you can count.

We got a leecher!

 

[pulpfiction1]

my experience is they dont come down quick,how much you using in what size tank?how much flow is going through the gfo?

 

[theyangman]

I have a mag 18 pushing through my TLF 550 reactor. Not a ton of GFO in there right now.

It also daisy chains into my carbon reactor which is also a TLF 550.

The GFO doesn't really boil as much as some of the others I have seen online and I cannot for the live of me figure out why. There is PLENTY of flow with a mag 18.

 

[reeffreak]

Base rock was marco dry rock from bill and the live rock was his as well from who knows where. He said it was good.

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Listening to the wrong person

 

[reeffreak]

I run 2 tlf 150 reactors of my mag 18 and have no problems getting it to "boil" , but I had bought 4 extra valves and placed one on each input and output of the reactor,  it definitely helped me control the flow threw the reactors way more efficiently.

 

[reeffreak]

I also use the Hanna checkers  and double check the readings and then test with another brand of tests just to be sure, I don't  t use the calcuim checker anymore it's a paper weight POS.

 

[pulpfiction1]

I have a mag 18 pushing through my TLF 550 reactor. Not a ton of GFO in there right now.

It also daisy chains into my carbon reactor which is also a TLF 550.

The GFO doesn't really boil as much as some of the others I have seen online and I cannot for the live of me figure out why. There is PLENTY of flow with a mag 18.

i would think a mag 18 would pin all your gfo to the top of the reactor

 

[theyangman]

You'd think. I have no idea what the fuark is wrong with the reactors or how I set it up. I am considering scrapping the entire set up.