Purigen

[Totenkampf]

i just installed a reactor reactor. i have a couple of the the twolittlefishies units full of purigen floating around inside a 16" piece of pipe which is connected a hurricane that i have trapped inside it via my use of liger magic. now thats balla. seriously tho EK this is pretty cool and the reactors are not as pricey as i expected. almost not worth modding a canister filter.

[sunkenmetal]

you guys are to baller for me

[eklikewhoa]

That's how I have mine.

The HOT is set up with a spray bar over the drip tray and the reactor feeds into it as well, this keeps my wet/dry filter "alive" while I drain my tank during water changes without drying out the bio-balls, also keeps build up in the sump to a min. I set up all my wet/dry filters with some sort of continuous pump.

[nightster]

A reactor is a good idea. I think I may get my 2 little fishies hob reactor back from my step dad (he's not using it) fill it with purigen and hang it on my wet/dry. May even put the return pointing back into the drip tray...

[eklikewhoa]

nice! notice a difference in water clarity?

How often do you think you will need to change out the purigen (since you don't regenerate )?

After a few hours it was an incredible difference! The tank has been going though a cloudy stage since I nuked the tank with cyanide. But since then I cleaned everything and haven't stopped feeding my fish, added the MBU and he eats like a mofo and before I added the reactor it was a bit hazy, left the house for like 4-5hrs and came back to a clear tank!

Once the tank settles I imagine it will be like fish floating in air!

I got a liter in there and normally change it out about a month to 2months, I think I can go longer with the reactor since it's more efficient cause I've noticed with the old bagged purigen when I take it out there are clumps of white which haven't exhausted.

[eklikewhoa]

Stuff it in your sump

The way the new wet/dry I have on there is set up there's not much room for it, plus I have the Magnum HOT on there to polish the water ever more.

[tbui1178]

nice! notice a difference in water clarity?

How often do you think you will need to change out the purigen (since you don't regenerate )?

[ssrprelude]

Stuff it in your sump

[eklikewhoa]

I wanted to get the eheim mini pump when I was at FG yesterday and hard plumb this sucker but I'm running out of room under the stand.

[ssrprelude]

Lol pimping mine out with ehiem quick disconnects.

[eklikewhoa]

yeah it is, the purigen is super light and the SMR1 I got isn't that much shorter but when I run the miniJet404 full blast all the purgen is plastered up top.

[ssrprelude]

My reactor is pretty tall, we'll see. I'll put a valve on it just in case.

[eklikewhoa]

if you can dial it down.

I thought the 404 was gonna be too weak but I had to almost valve this thing completely off to get the nice tumble.

[ssrprelude]

Im working on mine today. Ehiem 1048 pump should work huh?

[eklikewhoa]

Gottcha. Thats way more pimp than the bag method.

Yeah, you can't bag it with the reactor, the whole point of the reactor is for it to fluidize.


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