Great stuff man. Do you get discounts for sponsorships ? I notice you have a lot of the new equipment in the hobby, and the expensive ones at that. I’m just curious how things work behind the scenes. Anyway I subscribed to your channel. I like your info please keep posting educational videos for the reefing hobbyists
Are you using the ecotech peristaltic to push water through your reactor? The reason I ask is we had a member in our local reef club, Bayou Reefkeeping, years ago using a peristaltic to push water through his GEO carx. The effluent clogged, and the pressure from the peristaltic cracked the lid on his GEO reactor flooding his floor and partially draining his tank. Just something you might want to clarify and warn your viewers about if they are pushing water through a reactor with a peristaltic. It will build pressure if the line clogs. Thanks and great video! 👍🏻
@@ReefDudes Sorry, I failed to mention in my comment that pulling the water through with a peristaltic on the effluent side of the reactor instead of pushing through the reactor would be the safer option, but figured that was implied...
Waterbox has a carbondoser. My other one is a generic one I borrowed of a buddy. If you use a aquarium controller one with a solenoid is the main thing. If you don’t have a ph controller then I would spend more on the carbon doser
Does your WCs support trace elements needs with CA reactor or you dose them. If you dose trace elements can you tell us more about your system. Is it according to ICP one time correction or dosing according to CA consumption or weekly additives . Great video thank you
My water changes are not large enough to fully dose trace elements, i do dose a bunch of the Brightwell trace elements daily along with some of the individual elements form the reef moonshine. ill do a video on trace elements in the near future.
Great vid as always! Here's a challenging Calcium Reactor tech question for 'ya.... I bought a Skimz Monzter CM157 Internal Calcium Reactor. This reactor is unique in that the pump is dual purpose (feed & recirculating) with a standard needle valve outlet. My question is can I ditch the needle valve and use a dosing pump instead with this sort of calcium reactor pump design?
What is your PH inside the reactor set at? I had to change over to the large rock style media and had to lower the PH down to 6.2 to get the media to melt. I'm running the same GEO reactor.
Its depends of media. Corals skelletons give good enfluent in 6.7-6.4 pH range. Bellow 6.4 starts to melt down. When u use ARM media with is pure Calcite (CaCO3) it needs to lower pH to achive good enfluent KH. Arm starts to melt down at 5.9-5.8 pH level
Hey Devin so what happens when the water level from the calcium reactor drops? Do you have to open the lid and top off? Or do you have a line that is auto filling it? I assume you are using saltwater from the tank?
Nope. I did not use any. If you want to check for leaks use some soapy water with a paint brush and brush the joints. If there is any leak you will see bubbles.
Gr8. How do u silent Gas Churning inside Reactor everynow and then and then Media melting... despite pH is 6.8 Co2 On to 6.6 Co2 off. For pH Drop i drop effulent on Cheto after Degas. But really sick of Small media melting amd milky water in Reactor.
Have a question i run a geo reactor and a carbon doser with a kamoer pump.my question is my co2 psi will not open the check valve to allow co2 into the reactor Can i just remove the check valve and run it straight into the reactor?
I wouldn't. There's a chance that the water in the reactor could back syphon into the regulator ruining it during a power failure. You could have a defective check valve.
You dont need to. pH probe makes it Simpler. But as far as you can handle with pH in your calcium reactor ( not melting media) you can do it without it
I'm using a milwaukee ph controller with the probe in the reactor and a Carbondoser regulator. If the regulator malfunctioned somehow, the set points on the controller would turn off the regulator as a fail safe.
Hey dev I’m about to switch the sps system to the reactor. It’s been many years since I ran a reactor things are different now. I was wondering if you have a video or could share apex code/programming. I’m setting up the same reactor/regulator/ but using kamoer on the reactor
You can prob ignore the last line as that’s the reading from my alkatronic but - Fallback OFF If PH_CRX > 6.70 Then ON If PH_CRX < 6.60 Then OFF If Alk > 8.70 Then OFF
