Who uses ozone?
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Zoom
Premium Member
Do to high volume of air going thru the Etss skimmer i will not recommend it .B.Bones said:
The ozone will escape in the living space of your home very easily and if you have small children is a no no.
Now if you put a large carbon filter in the air outflow of the skimmer that will be better, but i still said no ozone with that skimmer.
Mark
Premium Member
For those not wanting to run ozone through their large skimmers, you can also just run it with an airpump through an el-cheapo airstone skimmer. It was quite common in the past to use a large skimmer alongside a little airstone skimmer w/ ozone. I know Lee's and Berlin make little plastic airstone skimmers that would work great.
coderabit21
New member
Would you also not recommend me running ozone through the venturi of my Kent Marine TE skimmer?
Sparky0028
Member
Mark
I am using the berlin skimmer, can I run ozone in it and still use the airstone for skimming. also how would you hook it up. Or would I just replace the airpump with the ozone.
Rich
I am using the berlin skimmer, can I run ozone in it and still use the airstone for skimming. also how would you hook it up. Or would I just replace the airpump with the ozone.
Rich
Mark
Premium Member
coderabit21 and Sparky0028,
Both of you could run ozone in your skimmers no problem. Just put a T into your airline going into the skimmer and attach the ozone to it. I actually just feed the ozone right into the venturi inlet without a T. But I assist the airflow with an airpump, because I felt the ozone unit restricted the pull of air into the venturi. But it's a small pump.
All ozone units require either an air pump to push the air through or a venturi to pull the air in. The ozone unit itself does not create airflow. It merely converts the air going through it to ozone.
Hey Zoom,
I'm not sure if you can route the exit water through carbon. But if the goal is to run only a little ozone for a few hours to help clear the water, I don't think carbon is necessary. Ozone is dangerous stuff, no doubt. And a tiny little amount goes a long way. If you used the little skimmer pictured above for ozone and ran it at 10mg/hr on, say, a 100g tank, I don't think carbon is needed.
If you want to run a lot more ozone, then I would suggest placing the above skimmer in a little box that routes the water through some carbon.
Both of you could run ozone in your skimmers no problem. Just put a T into your airline going into the skimmer and attach the ozone to it. I actually just feed the ozone right into the venturi inlet without a T. But I assist the airflow with an airpump, because I felt the ozone unit restricted the pull of air into the venturi. But it's a small pump.
All ozone units require either an air pump to push the air through or a venturi to pull the air in. The ozone unit itself does not create airflow. It merely converts the air going through it to ozone.
Hey Zoom,
I'm not sure if you can route the exit water through carbon. But if the goal is to run only a little ozone for a few hours to help clear the water, I don't think carbon is necessary. Ozone is dangerous stuff, no doubt. And a tiny little amount goes a long way. If you used the little skimmer pictured above for ozone and ran it at 10mg/hr on, say, a 100g tank, I don't think carbon is needed.
If you want to run a lot more ozone, then I would suggest placing the above skimmer in a little box that routes the water through some carbon.
Sparky0028
Member
Thanks Mark, that is great to hear.
Rich
Rich
Zoom
Premium Member
It is to risky to run any amount of ozone directly in your tank.
If the air driven red sea skimmer use directly inside a tank, you know some one will over do it with the amount of ozone use and kill everything in there tank.
I only recommend ozone use inside a sump and with carbon in both ends of the ozone reactor.
I try to use ozone in a ETSS skimmer and you actually can smell the ozone in the room with that skimmer the air goes thru that skimmer to fast for the ozone to react with the water.
If the air driven red sea skimmer use directly inside a tank, you know some one will over do it with the amount of ozone use and kill everything in there tank.
I only recommend ozone use inside a sump and with carbon in both ends of the ozone reactor.
I try to use ozone in a ETSS skimmer and you actually can smell the ozone in the room with that skimmer the air goes thru that skimmer to fast for the ozone to react with the water.
drtango
New member
I'm wondering if the "toxic ozone" issue is sort of like an urban legend--
Has anyone directly or personally observed a tank getting "fried" by ozone? What happens when a tank fries?
Ozone is very unstable, I think you would really have to go out of your way to harm your tank, unless tank was very small with a very large ozone input directly onto livestock. I'm running 100mg into my skimmer, without an air dryer so likely much less, but my water is great, snails play in the skimmer output without problem, no carbon.
I'm I risking "frying" my tank? I've been doing this for a long time.
Has anyone directly or personally observed a tank getting "fried" by ozone? What happens when a tank fries?
Ozone is very unstable, I think you would really have to go out of your way to harm your tank, unless tank was very small with a very large ozone input directly onto livestock. I'm running 100mg into my skimmer, without an air dryer so likely much less, but my water is great, snails play in the skimmer output without problem, no carbon.
I'm I risking "frying" my tank? I've been doing this for a long time.
Brad A.
Premium Member
drtango said:
At the levels we use in reeftanks, its total urban legend.
I agree, Ozone is so reactive, that the free radical is not going to have time to make it up to the main display (from the sump that this) without reacting to something. I no longer run carbon on the skimmer outflow. I've been testing for O3 byproducts for a while now and cant detect them in the main tank (red sea test kit).
If one gets a public aquarium sized ozonator and cranks it in their home reef tank, then sure, you'll fry the tank and your lungs.
This lastest talk of frying the tank with O3 is over kill.
