Ozone

[carlinsa]

for the folks with ozone i am asking this question cause of all the different options. i am going to ozone a 125 reef. i have seen them from the price of 189.95 to 360. i have no aquacontroller. so which of the ones in the link below would be the one to get. I need nothing fancy just effective.


http://www.premiumaquatics.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=ozoneunits

also what else will i need for this.

thanks for the help

carl

[NaCl_H2O]

Carl, I have the RedSea Deluxe 200. If you don't get the built in ORP controller, then you can just run it for say 8 hours a day on a timer and monitor ORP with a seperate monitor, or I Think you can get a test kit to check for residual ozone ... maybe Gary can add to this thought?

I think the recommended mg/hr starting out is 0.18 mg/hr per gallon of water - Todd can confirm this number? However, that is assuming you are using an air dryer. With our humidity the dryer is fairly useless - you have to change the beads every couple of days :angry

I run mine without a dryer, which makes the ozone production about 50% as effective as with the dryer, so double the above dosage level.

Hope this helps some - feel free to ask more questions here or via PM.

I think Todd has a RedSea unit too, and MikeBoy just bought an AquaMedic unit.

[carlinsa]

what is the dryer? the 300 dollar one is it complete or will i need to get other stuff to go with it.

[NaCl_H2O]

The RedSea units are "complete", they come with an Air Dryer (http://www.premiumaquatics.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=RED-AquaDrylg&Category_Code=ozoneunits) which is just a inline container of silica beads that remove moisture from the incoming air. You can "recharge" the beads by baking them in the oven, but like I said, you better get a dedicated oven to bake your beads because they become depleted VERY fast in San Antonio humidity.

The instructions say to connect an air pump to push air through the generator, but I simply hooked my skimmer's air inlet to the ozone generator output and suction from the skimmer is working just fine.

I have a charcoal container on top of the skimmer so the air from the skimmer passes through some charcoal to remove excess ozone from the air. I am not passing the skimmer output through charcoal, but I have lots of sump space for any residual ozone to be depleted. If you have a small sump, I would consider charcoal in the sump where the skimmer output comes into the sump.

[carlinsa]

pm sent and extra oven no biggie just replaces the wall oven in my house.