Hiatt filtration system

[CoryDude]

Richard, are you and Boomer on RC still going at it?

All I was asking Snake is if one of his vendors was still in business. I made the mistake of giving him an update on my tank in the same email. That was my downfall I guess.

[Europhyllia]

interesting about the pod population declining. I am sort of fond of them. I wonder if my solid vodka dosing will have the same effect?

[CoryDude]

I haven't had that kind of problem in my tank. In fact, with the increased feedings, the pods seem even more abundant. I'm not even going to guess why my case is different from Bill's and Richard's experiences. Maybe flowrate, age of liverock, amount of carbon I'm using, who knows.

[Elijaher]

It's good to hear somebody else using this systems beside me. With success.

[CoryDude]

Elijaher,

I think I saw your posts on RC on the recent Hiatt discussion. Welcome to Maast and thanks for commenting. Yeah, I've been very happy with this system.

I wish more people would give it a try. But, I think part of the problem is the marketing for this method.

[Elijaher]

I find the thread at RC. Yep it the way it was market. When talking about replacing protein skimmer, calcium, nitrate, phosphate, etc reactor. Reefer will not like that. But those equipment works fine. Those systems still holds most beautiful reef tank so far. Bacteria drivens system's is growing fast and popular.

[CaptainGreg]

I don't remember doing anything on RC about these.

After I got about 10 X flow like you discussed things went very well. Here are a few pics of the plumbing under the tank. Sorry for the poor pics.

The first is the air line quick disconnect and the water hose inlet that is located at the exit of the carbon tube.

The second photo is the water hose exit that is on the inlet side of the carbon tube.

The third is all three tubes, flow was from RT to LT starting with carbon and then the useless calcium rock tubes.

The fourth is before intalling them and the fifth is after with a view of both the flushing valves with their ball valves isolating the system.

I have a whole ton of pics and could share how I built them if there is any interest. It was fun and the best part was that they worked.

WoWwWW Those tubes look heavy duty. I have a more simple design and it take about 1 hour to assemble and I made it out of light weight of 6 or 8 or 10 inch PVC tubes. Visit my profile and see if you can see the pictures. How do you attach pictures in these post?

[CaptainGreg]

I am wondering if I get the flow more than 10X does the Hiatt system still work or it just kick the RN out of the carbon tube? I use to have the carbon pack in the tube design like that described on Stan and Deb post on the about web page and it just does not work. I redesign the tube and make it similar to the red torpedo and fill the tank only 2/3 full and it work and pack flush is great without using the high pressure air or larger pump. I got the advice from the local Home water filter tech to fill the tank 2/3 full so that the back flush to work.

[Elijaher]

That's a good question about more then 10x I had problem getting 10x, using a pump rated at close 5000gmp to have return at 1250gpm on my 125gal tank.

[CaptainGreg]

That's a good question about more then 10x I had problem getting 10x, using a pump rated at close 5000gmp to have return at 1250gpm on my 125gal tank.

did you check out my profile. I have pictures of the carbon tube design. I have two Baracuda pumps in series and it should kick out at least 8000 gal/h.... on a 250 gal tank with 50 gal of water in the sump. I measure the max output of 6000 gal/h the system with one large carbon tube and three large caclite tubes. The over flow is barely keeping up with it. I have problem with the water staying cloudy for two days now. It seem to be kicking out lot of dust from the calcite or maybe the RN.

If it does not clear up soon, I have to turn off my second pump.