How does a calcium reactor work?

[Zaphod]

How exactly do you hook one of these up? I know how the reaction works but how do you know how many drips and how what do you use for the water supply to the reactor?

 

[phishlet]

You could supply water to the reactor using a powerhead. A maxijet 900 or 1200 would work fine. I use 1200's on both of my reactors.

The amount of co2 bubbles/minute and effluent drips/minute depends on the load of your reef. In other words, depending on how demanding your corals/clams etc. are for buffer/calcium that will determine how fast you'll need to drip and, likewise, how much co2 will thus be need to break down the media sufficiently.

That's it in a nutshell. It takes a while to dial in your reactor and you'll need calk/alk tests to monitor how your water perameters are working out.

Hope this helps.