Running Both Kalk & CA Reac.

[BA]

u lost me at

when you mix the two.

LOL, hopefully next year PRE-AP chemistry in my soph. year will help me to understand some stuff,lol

[RobertG]

Bobby you might have a chance, but as for me I can see the two going together but still dont know the language. Others here have posted with good things to say, dosing through the osmolator sounds good.

As the Ca reactor is being controlled by the controller would'nt it not be mixing the two so much. At times they might be but could place the Kalk topoff away from the CA effluent. One close to the return line input the other to travel trough the sump & then return.

The osmolator is very precise it doses for like 10-15 seconds at a time. Would this change the way you think they react to each other.

[brewercm]

Try this place for dosing pumps if you're still looking.

www.reefdosing.com

[RobertG]

Anyone using one of these that brewer linked me to? Which one is good anything I need to look for?

[GaryP]

Just for the record, the technical name for those are peristaltic pumps.

Gary

[GaryP]

Robert,

You may have enough flow in your sump. Unfortunately there is only one way to find out.

Your other option is to just turn off the calcium reactor while you dosing Kalk at night. Put them both on timers so that only one is on at a particular time. You're not going to be running your Kalk reactor 24/7 like you do your calcium reactor. Right?

Gary

[RobertG]

I am thinking of it dosing through my topoff. The Tunze is real precise as it only dumps maybe a cup at a time. I will have to try it a few different ways.
My main concern was that it will not have a reaction in general. Where I pump it in should not be to bad as there should be enough flow going.

Thanks for the help! It is nice to have someone else to ask.

[ratboy]

I wouldnt get one of those refurbished medical dosing pumps. I have one and what I dont like about them is that they must run continuously. If you use them on a timer and power them off you must reprogram them or they error and beep incessantly. They are reliable and adjustable to get the correct top off amount that you need, but I prefer to add my top off periodically in the evening.

-Erik