Award Winning DVD!!!

Award Winning DVD!!!

The Reef Aquarium DVD, A Set Up & Maintenance Guide has just won another award! The highly regarded Communicator Award chose to honor us with their Award of Distinction for 2008. The Communicator Awards is an international awards competition that recognizes outstanding work in the communication field. Entries were judged by industry professionals who look for companies and individuals whose talent exceeds a high standard of excellence and whose work serves as a benchmark for the industry. The highly respected judges commented that “The Reef Aquarium DVD, A Set Up & Maintenance Guide was beautifully shot and extremely well written. There is a tremendous wealth of knowledge that was easily presented so even people with almost no experience in fish keeping could succeed in keeping a marine reef aquarium. Congratulations on your well deserved Communicator Award of Distinction!”

Maintenance on your ozonator

Nitric Acid build up in ozonator

Be careful to have dry air go to your ozonator! If you don’t, it can cause a build up of Nitric acid, a sticky brown substance that will make a mess all over your plumbing and cause your ozonator to stop working. This was a mistake on our part, not attaching a dryer right away. This allowed the Nitric acid to build up over time and damage the ozonator. Here is our Ozotech ozonator with the top open and the bulb out. We cleaned off most of the Nitric acid which was on the bulb and the inside. Next we tested the unit to make sure the bulb still lit (it did).

dryer mounted

We hung the unit back in place with a toggle bolt and hung our new air dryer nearby, attaching it with clear hose to the air intake of the ozonator.

Crystals rurn from blue to pink

The crystals that Ozotech supplies with the dryer start off as blue then turn to pink as they acquire moisture. Once they gels turn all pink, you can either microwave or bake (recommended) the gels until they turn blue again. This can be repeated several times, but not indefinitely, as the gels eventually loose their moisture holding capability. Here you see the crystals that have turned to pink, so we put them in the toaster oven, turning them over every few minutes, and in about 40 minutes they were ready to go back to work. This 8” pie pan worked alright, but next time I would use a large cookie sheet to increase the surface area and decrease the cooking time.

dry crystals to blue

We just put the crystals back in the dryer, screwed it in, and we were in business!