No I got the z9 $40.55 for a quart both parts free shipping you spend $100 or more. And it seems to be working fine so far. I would go back to running a sterile system before I would be 200 bucks a gallon for Hydrogaurd.
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5ml for 38 liters makes it go a long ways.
Stiltoed what didn't you like about the z7?
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Stltoed
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Z7 works, but its expensive and foams up like crazy in my rig.
The Phantom
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Ah that's right the foam, I forgot about that.
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Stltoed
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It was crazy, then dried and stuccoed the walls of my tubs. My res still has that shit cemented to the sides haha. An image of Jesus Christ showed up in the concrete left from my Z 7 experiment. Didn't do shit for my yield though. I guess God isn't a pot head. Z7 does work. But its not for me for a few reasons.
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I checked it out, a gallon of Hydroguard treats as much as the 1 quart of A&B Z7. For the prices we are able to get them for they break down to costing about the same. If the Z7 foamed up on me I wouldn't use it either. I just noticed more slim dying after adding in Z7 to my reservoir with Hydroguard already in it. It probably would have went the same way in the Z7 was in the reservoir already and I started adding in Hydroguard. Both worked for me, I just like the smell of Z7. Haha
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Stltoed
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My last res lasted about 12 days. I only had to add Hydroguard once.
I get some foam in the reservoir from z9 the first few days but it dissipates and it's not too bad.
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Stltoed
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When you get a man's air pump we'll see how it goes... haha! Just playing dude
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Haha care to enlighten us about these pumps for men?
Back in the day we used to run these Sweetwater air blower with the quarter horse motor they rated them at over 1,000 air stones something stupid like that.
Dankman_420
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I've worked on blower's built like that, year's ago. Shimming the impeller properly is a pain. At least on the larger ones
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I should show you the ones they have here for aerating the reclaim reservoirs. They usually run a few hundred feet of 6-8" diameter aeration piping sometimes 40'+ underwater. Some pretty loud diesel motors running those pumps, basically identical to what you posted but a little bigger, usually housed in a 15'x10' room in a building on site and always a spare pump for redundancy.
They work great on a large hydro system
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Yeah what did you say? 1000 air stones! Man Smokey what were you up to back then? Haha
That's what they rated them for but they work great on a 100 or more also one pump to run every thing is a bonus.
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Stltoed
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Oh yeah?! When I was a starship captain I grew tons of pot and this was my air pump
Talk about big buds...
Hubble Catches a Spiral in the Air Pump - NASA Science
Lying more than 110 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Antlia (The Air Pump) is the spiral galaxy IC 2560, shown here in an image from NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. At this distance it is a relatively nearby spiral galaxy, and is part of the Antlia cluster — a group...
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yes! oldie but still funny AF!
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Love that video, makes me laugh everytime. How's MV tonight?
