adinsxq Posted August 16, 2003 Share Posted August 16, 2003 i know i got burned pretty bad last time i pasted something from the chat... but oh well... HTH. :|:| --- i gotta add my ca-reactor to the 1.5 so my coraline will grow faster you bought a ca reactor! they're like $300 for a ca reactor you don't even have SPS! no i bought a lifegard fluidized bed sand filter, filled it with cc and ran a CO2 line up it's behind bam! ca-reactor CO2 is carbon dixoide? yes where you getting the carbon dixoide from? its in the air, but theres still more oxygen then CO2 right co2 is heavier than oxygen so, its just an air pump? that's why you see that white smoke coming off of dry ice so wheres the CO2 coming from then to get co2 i just go to my local icecream man and i get a large chunk of dry ice put that in an air tight container and let the co2 bleed off into a tube that goes into the reactor whered you find an airtight container? still, dry ice doesn't last that long seems pointless to me i use one of those peanut butter jars (plastic) from costco and made it airtight how? use a hot nail to pierce a hole in the top and hot glue silicone tubing and you sucked the air out of the container? nono when the dry ice "melts" it creates c02 gas nevermind that gas creates pressure and goes though the tube still, you'd get oxygen going into the line not just CO2 thatys why you use a peanut butter jar (just oxygen normal air) I know theres oxgen in carbon dioxide the only thing going into the tube is the gas from the dry ice still, how are you getting just how dry ice is solid carbon dioxide yes getting what? how are you getting only co2 in the line because the container is sealed so air doesn't get in theres air in the contianer though yes but once the dry ice melts the co2 pushes the air out then you're left with pure co2 do all calium reactors work this way? the principle yes but there are different sources of co2 some people use pressurized canisters an example sounds expensive for a CO2 reactor yeah that's why a lot of people are starting to use dry ice even you're way no man dry ice is cheap next time you see one of those guys with the push cart ice cream thing, you ask him for a piece ahh, how often u gonna hve to change the ice? depends on how big the piece is and if you insulate the peanut butter jar lol I know you can insulate your peanut butter jar with styrofoam we don't have puch cart ice cream guys don't you want it to melt quicker at the beach? cuz quicker is more co2 why insulate it? not too much or you'll crash the pH in your tank if you insululate it the ice will last longer oh, I see you're way sounds like it could screw a tank over very quicly that's why i have a auto safety valve considering you control how much CO2 u get by insulation if the gas pressure gets too high, the valve opens and releases the extra gas whered you find something like that? you make it a valve held down y a spring? yep still, you have to fool around wioth it alot once you've got it calibrated, you only have to make minor adjustments every few months to get the valve to open t the right times and I hpe you're gonna calibrate it in a tank with no animals? of course k and whats cc? crushed coral ahhhh and is water in there yes the co2 needs to dissolve in water before it can turn the cc into calcium and water gets moved in and out of the ca reactor how? pump so you'll have to add more curshed coral every once in a while? yeah. when you add new cc, you do the valve adjustments like i said, every few months 3-4 ? 3-4 months ahh, how big is this whole thing? the reactor is about 6 inches wide, and 12 inches high it hangs on the back the peanutbutter jar goes in your stand cool sounds like it should work anybody else do it before? there are some pretty good plans on the web you just have to search for it or is this one of your brilliant ideas, lol i typed in "peanut c02 reef reactor" i gotta go. ttyl. * FLReef is scared of kalk and ca reactors now * FLReef shudders Link to comment
bertz_maru Posted August 19, 2003 Share Posted August 19, 2003 hey is there any pics of this setup? Link to comment
edmund67 Posted August 20, 2003 Share Posted August 20, 2003 u got a pretty good freaking idea. Be de man and lead the way. "if you build it, they will follow" Link to comment
coolcom Posted September 4, 2005 Share Posted September 4, 2005 I was also thinking about converting a fluidized bed filter. But into a kalk reactor instead of a calcium reactor, since CO2 will drop the pH quick, especially in a 10g tank, and kalk will keep the ph high and stable. Also it'll be less costly and complicated and i can install it right in between my top off reservior and tank. All i need is to find a way to constantly mix kalk in the bed filter right? Any comments/ideas/corrections? Link to comment
Daemonfly Posted September 5, 2005 Share Posted September 5, 2005 I only have one question. How do you regulate the amount of CO2 going into the system? Link to comment
coolcom Posted September 5, 2005 Share Posted September 5, 2005 for the kalk reactor? no CO2 is required for kalk reactor Link to comment
Daemonfly Posted September 6, 2005 Share Posted September 6, 2005 No, the CA reactor. One of the main things is properly setting and controlling CO2 levels. I can't see this happening when using dry ice. Link to comment
lgreen Posted September 6, 2005 Share Posted September 6, 2005 isn't co2 pretty cheap anyway? yep, needs a pH/co2 controller still. Link to comment
adinsxq Posted September 6, 2005 Author Share Posted September 6, 2005 it was a joke. Link to comment
shao-lin nano Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 I was also thinking about converting a fluidized bed filter. But into a kalk reactor instead of a calcium reactor, since CO2 will drop the pH quick, especially in a 10g tank, and kalk will keep the ph high and stable. Also it'll be less costly and complicated and i can install it right in between my top off reservior and tank. All i need is to find a way to constantly mix kalk in the bed filter right? Any comments/ideas/corrections? http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthre...threadid=896134 Link to comment
Daemonfly Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 Good going resurrecting a YEAR old thread. Link to comment
shao-lin nano Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 Good going resurrecting a YEAR old thread. HaHa...nothing to do when you have to work nights over the weekend. Link to comment
Undertheradar Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 Thats always been my favorite easy as pie Ca reactor... a super size GE water filter with the plumbing set up to recirculate... Link to comment
Daemonfly Posted August 2, 2006 Share Posted August 2, 2006 I'm assumign that has a tube going rown the center to force water through the media? Link to comment
adinsxq Posted August 2, 2006 Author Share Posted August 2, 2006 you tards didn't even read the thread Link to comment
Daemonfly Posted August 2, 2006 Share Posted August 2, 2006 Since that noob up there resurrected it (lock it plz!), we took it over. Link to comment
shao-lin nano Posted August 2, 2006 Share Posted August 2, 2006 I'm assumign that has a tube going rown the center to force water through the media? Yes http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthre...mp;pagenumber=1 Since that noob up there resurrected it (lock it plz!), we took it over. Who? Me? Link to comment
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