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Originally Posted by Witfull pretty,,,what is it...lol |
Hey Witful, they perform the following:
In a nut shell, you can choose how much water you want to dialize a day up to I think its 60gpd. I will probably do about 5 gpd on my new setup which will be like 140g per month. Essentially the dializer will strip the water of any impurities including most of the salt and return it to DI water and return it back to the tank. Then it injects ro di water into a bucket of salt which has an overflow at the time. The salt water over flows into the tank to make sure that the tank water is always at the preset salinity. It will also dose calcium to keep your levels up if need be, auto top off and monitor/control just about every parameter on your tank. Most of the chemicals are controlled by the daily salt supplementation.
The CADS has the tank water over flow into this chamber where there is a very fine mesh screen (maybe 150u i think don't quote me) and as it clogs up, the water level builds in the chamber causing a float switch to trigger and a electronic ball valve diverts water around the screen. The screen then rotates as it gets vacuumed clean, then the process repeats. They said its so sensitive that if I just stir the sand bed it comes on almost immediately.
You can get better details on both systems here:
http://www.seavisions.com/dialyseas...sis%20Equipment http://www.seavisions.com/CADS%20PAGE.htm Quote:
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Originally Posted by livingreef2004 im intrigued but like wit said ,What is it? |
See above =)
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Originally Posted by rckmtl is it like, an artificial kidney for your reef? I could find the webpage about it, but I am too lazy |
Yep =) Looks like LR did the tough work for ya hehe.
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Originally Posted by livingreef2004 |
Thanks, I hope it is as impresive as I have read/heard.
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Originally Posted by Jendub cool piece of equipment Chris. I want to know how you like it in a couple weeks. If you can see a difference and if it is worth the money. Also, if something breaks on it, do they fix it or have parts to replace? You were saying, no manual which is dumb but it does look easy to use. Keep us updated!!!=) |
Thanks Jen! I will probably not have it hooked up till the new tank is here and all the hard stuff is done (still a little ways away been very busy =(). I am sure I will see a difference! I am not up on water changes as I should be and sometimes I see the effect of that. This will change the water for me every 30 minutes 24 hours a day up to 60g a day. I will probably have it change about 150g a month on my large tank. They are pretty good with customer service and Gerry, the president assured me any issue that may arise will be handled promptly. This is backed up by a customer I met and talked with about it that uses his dialyseas on his reef tank.
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Originally Posted by Witfull looking at their pics i was getting a bit worried when all i saw was fake corals. but there were finally a few true reef tanks.
im not sold on it and if i was,,,its kinda ouota my price range. |
Yeah, not many ppl have pics of them on reef tanks as not many ppl spring for the money for the equipment. You see mostly pics of what they do, and they don't really provide reefs but fish only tanks for the rich =)...so you see these units plumbed to them tanks. Not many ppl have them on their reef tank.
It was kind of out of my range as well, but its better for me to have this and feel at ease when I am traveling then coming home to a tank full of coral dead for some crazy reason, not that it cant happen, but after this tank is set up it will take a tree crashing through my house for it to =).