RE: [APD] System 1 filter - not working?

["S. Hieber" <shieber at yahoo_com>]

I believe when you call "the company", you get the company
that bought the rights to the machine. I have talked with
them too and came away doubting that they understood the
machine as well as did Merril Cohen, who bought he machine
form it's inventor, iirc.

The way I remember this, and it was a few years ago, when I
returned a unit that was excessvely noisy they sent it back
saying they didn't notice any noise but didn't have any
test facilities -- they just hung it on a sink in the
bathroom.

Meanwhile, back on earth, it's a rather ingeniously
designed diatom filter, with the ingenuity aimed towards
user convenience. You can try checking for leaks (the media
holder is soundly seated in place) and if there are none
then try putting in a little more powder. Even if the
powder doesn't turn green from algae, it ought to darken
with other yuck it traps from the water.

sh


--- Rick Engstrom <rick703 at mts_net> wrote:
>  I have used the system 1 and it cleared up my green
> water pretty quick. I
> ordered a Vortex XL which uses 3 cups of diatom powder
> and my tank water is
> crystal clear in about an hour. I also have a 9x turbo
> twist U.V unit which
> also does as good a job, matter of fact I may sell my XL.
> Sounds to me like
> something is not working on the System 1. As far as the
> comment by the
> Company Rep. hmmm, gotta wonder about that.
> 
> Rick
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: aquatic-plants-bounces+rick703=mts_net at actwin.com
>
[mailto:aquatic-plants-bounces+rick703=mts_net at actwin.com]On
> Behalf Of
> sgreenville at provacom_com
> Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 1:15 PM
> To: aquatic-plants at actwin_com
> Subject: [APD] System 1 filter - not working?
> 
> 
> I just bought a System 1 diatom filter with the hope that
> I could use it to
> help fight a green water problem I am currently having. 
> But when I ran it
> (for two hours) the filter made absolutely no difference
> in the green water!
> The filter did not clog with algae as I was hoping - the
> DE powder never
> even turned green.  Can floating algae be too small to be
> filtered out by a
> diatom filter?  Should I have tried running it longer? 
> Could something be
> wrong with the filter? (It looked like it was running
> just fine.)  I talked
> to a guy at the company who makes the System 1 and he
> said not many people
> use a diatom filter for green water. . .but from what
> I've read in the
> archives here - people do use it successfully for this
> purpose. Any comments
> or suggestions would be appreciated.
> 
> Shirley
> 
> 
> 
> 
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