FreakinReefin
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Hey Nate, what pump are you using to pump the water from the sump into the reactor?
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Hey Nate, what pump are you using to pump the water from the sump into the reactor?
FreakinReefin
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Oh yeah! What tubing do you use for the water and CO2 lines? I have a bunch of the RO/DI water line however I am not sure if that is good enough for containing the CO2.
for water just the soft vinyl tubing is fine and for the Co2 there is specific Co2 hose you can get from the LFS. The last stuff i got was see through green from Blue Sierra. Dont know about your area. Some of the other hose will degrade over time
FreakinReefin
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Awesome dude you have been so helpful! I am going to finish the setup tonight and see what happens!
no prob. Just remember to do the slow start thing should take a day or so to get ph dropped were you want it. if you pump Co2 in there too fast your unit will get an air bubble in it and the pump will just "wizzzz" for the lack of a better word
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Okay, so I set everything up and have it rolling at 1 bubble per second and 1 drip per second. What I don't get is the controller. The PH probe is now reading about 7ph in the chamber and is going to continue to drop I'm sure, however the alarm light on the controller is going off. If I turn the knob on the controller UP above the current PH then the controller shuts the solenoid off. Isn't it supposed to shut it off when the PH gets too low?? So if the PH drops below the current setting that the knob is at (6.3) then it should shut it off in my understanding...am I getting this??
lvsuckerfish
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what media are you running some are rated for lower ph then others?
FreakinReefin
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I'm running CaribSea ARM. Is the alarm light supposed to be on right now?
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Okay so I got it all backwards in my head...nevermind it's working right.
lvsuckerfish
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and in the reactor you running 6.3 or 6.5?
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set for 6.3
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Okay, well the reactor is pretty stable at 6.4ph and the drip rate and bubble rate are semi stable. The Eheim is on, however I don't see any media moving at all. I know that I have seen many other reactors and can see either media moving or movement of effluent in the chamber...am I supposed to be seeing no movement at all? For a while I couldn't even tell that the Eheim was on at all.
lvsuckerfish
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on mine I do not see media moveing either right now it only has water running though it. no bottle yet i will get one in a few weeks no rush for it as I can dose 3 part for now.
DonW
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ya no movement in there man what you see is what you want.
Now is the time you want to start alk testing every other day and see what your Alk is doing and adjust every other test (if needed) very Slightly. Remember to Record your ALK readings on a piece of paper with the date so you can refer back to it. maybe write your self some notes on what is going on like drip rate and any adjustments you made next to the date so you can see how things react.
Now is the time you want to start alk testing every other day and see what your Alk is doing and adjust every other test (if needed) very Slightly. Remember to Record your ALK readings on a piece of paper with the date so you can refer back to it. maybe write your self some notes on what is going on like drip rate and any adjustments you made next to the date so you can see how things react.
