Setting Up A Calcium Reactor

[princer7]

I purchased a MRC Dual Nano Calcium Reactor for the 58 gallon tank. It requires a Mag 2 for the recirculation.

How do you dose from the effluent to the main tank?

I have access to a dosing pump, aqualifter, or powerhead. There will be a pH probe to monitor the tank and another probe that can monitor the reactor somewhere (there is no place on the reactor to mount a probe). The CO2 regulator has a bubble counter & solenoid.

90% is calcium media
10% ZeoMag

[TexasTodd]

The "feed pump" provides the pressure to push the effluent to your tank. Generally a MaxiJet..you want low pressure.

Count the bubbles per minute and the drops per minute on your effluent. You want the effluent about 6.7ph or so.

The most important thing is to get your tank at perfect PH, Alk, Dkh FIRST and adjust it up/down with B-ionic between adjustments on the reactor every 12-24 hours.

IE, you get your tank perfect. Start with the recommended bubbles and effluent in drips or MLs from the Manufacturer. Run it 12 or 24 hours. Retest everything.

If your parameters are HIGH dial the reactor back in the same ratio of bubbles to effluent to keep the ph of the effluent the same.

If your parameters are LOW dial the reactor up some and add B=Ionic to bring your tank back to "perfect". Run another 12=24hrs...and so on until you run 24 hours and it's still perfect.

TT

[verynewatthis]

if you have a controler for the reactor, and it dose not have a place to put the probe.. i have seen some people do this....

set up a shotglass that can be filled by the output of your reactor and then overflow back to your tank then place the probe in the shotglass. then you can set up the controler to keep the output ph in check..

Hope this helps some

rich

[princer7]

Thanks, ya'll. I got the CO2 this past weekend. Once this next weekend comes around, I'll hopefully get it running. Want to make sure I am home to monitor it. I took a piece of PVC and inserted the probe and effluent line and mounted it with some suction cups from an old heater. :)