Calcium Reactor Tips

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Lol. Yeah I haven't gone ape$hit with frags till I could get it running. Dosing sucks the big one. I accidentally got a frag of purple solitarienses (I'm sure I just butchered the spelling) today as a good luck charm. I just need a new o-ring and CO2 tank then I'm a frag killing machine!
 
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Man that thing is gonna need to be put on like a 1 drop every 10 seconds. You need something to eat calcium and alk. Ill tell you what, Campge is about to get out, he has 3 (2) of my 3 year old colonies, that are BF. tell em to sell em to you at my pricing.

Where do you live gordiflona?
 
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SchnitzelReef said:
Put like 20-30 seconds between bubbles on ur co2, and make surenf your effluent is coming out very slow.
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Too slow and it's going to clog. I recommend a steady stream no valve at all and just put co2 on timer for like 30 mins to an hour daily. Set your co2 so that your reactor ph is 6.6-6.8. This is how I run my reactors except I run way longer timer times.
 
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turbonut said:
You can have all the patience in the world , if the effluent is too slow the calcium and air will clog it.
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When I first started mine, I only had a couple frags and I had my effluent really slow. I never had any clogging problems.

Esteban is right, u have to keep your ph higher. Which is fine, because that just means ur melting the media slower
 
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SchnitzelReef said:
When I first started mine, I only had a couple frags and I had my effluent really slow. I never had any clogging problems.

Esteban is right, u have to keep your ph higher. Which is fine, because that just means ur melting the media slower
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Right but high ph wont really disolve the media much and if thats the case then why run an reactor at all? Might as well just do water changes.

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Right but high ph wont really disolve the media much and if thats the case then why run an reactor at all? Might as well just do water changes.

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Shut uuuuuup. If it's run at a lower acidity it still strips the media. He doesn't need much.
 
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Well you guys are all right. I mainly have frags right now with a few mini SPS colonies(almost baseball sized) and what seem like the worlds fastest growing Favias. I'm going to fix that soon during the IEMAS OC field trip. I know I haven't needed the reactor yet but I'm tired of dosing and water changes to adjust levels. Thanks for the tips guys! Keep them coming!
 
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El Dude said:
Well you guys are all right. I mainly have frags right now with a few mini SPS colonies(almost baseball sized) and what seem like the worlds fastest growing Favias. I'm going to fix that soon during the IEMAS OC field trip. I know I haven't needed the reactor yet but I'm tired of dosing and water changes to adjust levels. Thanks for the tips guys! Keep them coming!
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hows the ORA joe the coral piece doing?
 
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