What is CO2 for?

[CiroFuentes22]

wut is it for?How it works?Why do it?

 

[Travis L. Stevens]

Carbon Dioxide is used to run through a Calcium Reactor. The lower pH of the CO2ed water will dissolve the Calcium Bicarbonate media placed within to realease Calcium and Carbonate back into the aquarium.

 

[CiroFuentes22]

thats like chines to me bro. remeber one year. im still a noob.

 

[jessp]

ciro you have a pm

 

[chrisaggie]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8245310#post8245310 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Travis L. Stevens
Carbon Dioxide is used to run through a Calcium Reactor. The lower pH of the CO2ed water will dissolve the Calcium Bicarbonate media placed within to realease Calcium and Carbonate back into the aquarium.

Calcium carbonate (CaCO3), not Calcium Bicarbonate (Ca(HCO3)2)

 

[Rogger Castells]

Ciro, CO2 is a gas that is acid like the lemon, calcium will dissolve with the acid, remember the experiments at school with the eggs shells dissolving in the acid bath.
when co2 is use in a reactor (long acrylic tube full of calcium) it dissolves the calcium and dose it to the tank, SPS corals use the calcium to grow like you do to grow bone.
the whole idea of this is to simplify the addition of this needed calcium to a machine that dose it for you.
hope this help

 

[chrisaggie]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8247007#post8247007 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Rogger Castells
Ciro, CO2 is a gas that is acid like the lemon, calcium will dissolve with the acid, remember the experiments at school with the eggs shells dissolving in the acid bath.
when co2 is use in a reactor (long acrylic tube full of calcium) it dissolves the calcium and dose it to the tank, SPS corals use the calcium to grow like you do to grow bone.
the whole idea of this is to simplify the addition of this needed calcium to a machine that dose it for you.
hope this help

Close....carbon dioxide dissolves in water to form carbonic acid...which then dissolves the calcium carbonate into calcium and carbonate (raises alkalinity)

 

[CiroFuentes22]

so bassicaly it is a automatic calcium doser.

 

[Rogger Castells]

yes, in a nutshell

 

[Abengochea]

great explanation guys

 

[thesaent14]

i feel like back in school wow way back

 

[Rogger Castells]

What school is that Manny?

 

[Ryanqk]

Roger that was one of the best straight forward explanations of how that works i've heard so far, you should post it in the Newb forum.

 

[thesaent14]

lol shool of fish lol

 

[Rogger Castells]

LOL

 

[Rogger Castells]

LOL