well I got board today and had to build something

[StirCrazy]

well like it said I needed something to do.. sooo... I guess I got a refuge to hook up now.

all togeather it cost me about 65.00 and that is including a maxidrive 600 to put the water through it.

http://members.shaw.ca/stircrazy/refuge/rubbermaid4.jpg
http://members.shaw.ca/stircrazy/refuge/rubbermaid5.jpg
http://members.shaw.ca/stircrazy/refuge/rubbermaid6.jpg

Steve

[afss]

looks nice. Your going to have to get a bigger place soon with all the DIY stuff you do :D

[StirCrazy]

well all done with 25 lbs of rock in it now.


http://www.islandaquatics.ca/pictures/refuge/refugedone.jpg

Oh I forgot to mention that while I was doing the "fuge" I also decided to increase my top off water container to 18 gal from 4 gal.

http://www.islandaquatics.ca/pictures/refuge/topoff.jpg

Steve

[Chrismo]

Nice work...! you;ve inspired me to make an auto top off too.

I'm using rubbermaid for my sump. Do you know how the plastic holds up over the years? does it weaken from the salt at all?

I dont imagine it does. but I worry.

:)

[ajx22]

The salt shouldn't be a real problem...I would worry more about the effects of UV light weakening the plastic. This shouldn't be an issue for quite some time though.

Just make sure that you are using "Food-Grade" plastics in your system to ensure no leaching of chemicals into your water. We recently witnessed one of our wholesalers who were using non-food-grade containers for their water storage. We measured the water at three stages:
TDS @ the tap was about 150ppm after the RO/DI unit was 0.00ppm and the filtered RO/DI water (that had been filtered to 0.00ppm TDS) sitting in the storage containers was measured at 350ppm!!!

Just food for thought!

Cheers,