FreakonaReef
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Does anyone use the Nilsen Reactor for saltwater reef aquarium? and if you do , do you have it inline with your auto fill line to the sump?
Nilsen Reactor (kalkwasser)
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FreakonaReef
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any problem clogging valves or ?
Oh, yes. Exactly: float switch in sump to autotopoff switch to topoff pump in 32g ro/di reservoir---to reactor, via a check valve, [a BAS reactor with Hanna stirrer] and so on to the drip line, set above my skimmer intake in the sump.
I run a 54g reef with a 30g sump/refugium. The thing's been a tad cranky, but I think I've ironed out its problems. [The stirrer seemed to have been magnetizing the bottom plate of the reactor: a timer and giving it a rest has solved the problem.]
So far this totally supplies my alk/cal requirement for the 54g. I supplement mg now and again, and have wild coralline growth. It's saved me a lot of work. I was hand-dosing.
I use Mrs. Wages Pickling Lime [5.00 a can] for the medium.
On your 55 it ought to do great, maybe ditto for your 135. For your 180, I'd suspect a calcium reactor might serve you better.
Somebody in the diy section was making their own reactor out of a Rubbermaid bread storage box and some locline.
HTH
I run a 54g reef with a 30g sump/refugium. The thing's been a tad cranky, but I think I've ironed out its problems. [The stirrer seemed to have been magnetizing the bottom plate of the reactor: a timer and giving it a rest has solved the problem.]
So far this totally supplies my alk/cal requirement for the 54g. I supplement mg now and again, and have wild coralline growth. It's saved me a lot of work. I was hand-dosing.
I use Mrs. Wages Pickling Lime [5.00 a can] for the medium.
On your 55 it ought to do great, maybe ditto for your 135. For your 180, I'd suspect a calcium reactor might serve you better.
Somebody in the diy section was making their own reactor out of a Rubbermaid bread storage box and some locline.
HTH
FreakonaReef
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Also, I have a calcium reactor running on my 180 gal tank of mostly softies and LPS. Would the kalkwasser be of a great benifit
No valves, except the check valve. It's controlled by the float switch. I use the one from autotopoff. com, cheap, basic, and for the last 2 years infallible.
WIth my reactor, pressure from the topoff pump forces water into the reactor---which mixes with the kalk. MORE water has nowhere to go but out the locline connector and on to the drip line, which drips whenever water is shoved on out there. The float switch simply supplies water as per evaporation in the sump.
WIth my reactor, pressure from the topoff pump forces water into the reactor---which mixes with the kalk. MORE water has nowhere to go but out the locline connector and on to the drip line, which drips whenever water is shoved on out there. The float switch simply supplies water as per evaporation in the sump.
Many reefers use both, the kalkwasser I believe to help correct the ph, against the action of the calcium reactor. If you have a huge coral load, I believe this is said to help a lot to keep things steady-state. But others know far more about that than I do. I just run kalk.
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