Are there any difference between calcium produced from a yeast based calcium reactor and that produced from industrial co2? I also observed that under the same lighting setting the growth of sps appears better if i dose calcium chloride instead of using calcium reactor based on the yeast system.
Effect of calcium dosage on sps growth
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I assume your using a seperate co2/yeast chamber. Are you really getting the ph of the ca reactor low enough with just the yeast co2?
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DonW
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Tom, you should be brewing your own beer, just pipe the air lock into your reactor. The faster you drink the more co2 you'll make.
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Effect of caicium dosage on sps growth
For experiment purpose I have tried running a separate co2/yeast chamber supplying co2 to a diy cal reactor.The co2 generation lasted for about 2 weeks with 20 bubbles/min on day1 tapering to about 10 bubbles/min after 2 weeks based on certain sugar/yeast mixture.For the 2 weeks,I kept the effluent drip to about 1 drip/sec and ph varying from 6.5 to 6.8 Calcium in the main tank was measured average 380 -400ppm and Kh 8-12 dkh. No dosage of calcium chloride was added during the period.The test was carried out for about 3 months with 6 batches of yeast mixture but sps growth was not as good as before when only calcium and sodium bicarb were used as additives.
For experiment purpose I have tried running a separate co2/yeast chamber supplying co2 to a diy cal reactor.The co2 generation lasted for about 2 weeks with 20 bubbles/min on day1 tapering to about 10 bubbles/min after 2 weeks based on certain sugar/yeast mixture.For the 2 weeks,I kept the effluent drip to about 1 drip/sec and ph varying from 6.5 to 6.8 Calcium in the main tank was measured average 380 -400ppm and Kh 8-12 dkh. No dosage of calcium chloride was added during the period.The test was carried out for about 3 months with 6 batches of yeast mixture but sps growth was not as good as before when only calcium and sodium bicarb were used as additives.
