Calcium Reactor Issues

[bvysochin]

Since ph is exponential, you'll be surprised how huge of a difference you'll see by going just a bit lower. 6.5 to 6.4 is a big difference. The lowest we ever ran was about 6.25, and that burned up about 40 lbs of media every 4 months.

 

[solitude127]

Also, don't use a CaRx to raise Alk or CA. A CaRx is meant to keep those parameters stable.

Sent from my SM-G996U using Tapatalk

 

[kidA]

I've lowered the flow rate to 50 mls/min which resulted in an effluent dKH of 11.5. I'm going to see if display alk starts rising. I've already got the ph set to 6.5 -- I'm wondering how much lower I'm able to go? I mean, do people have their reactors set to 6.2, 6.3? That seems too low?

BTW the corals I got from you a while back are all doing great!

Oh awesome!! Forgot I sold to ya, glad to hear it

Well you've seen how stocked my tank is then for reference - it hovers around 6.6 pH in CaRX to keep balanced, but I also have a kalkwasser reactor through the auto top off so that gives alk and calcium too. Otherwise if not for that then yeah I'm sure I'd be in that lower range.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk