Calcium reactor problems

[Yanir34]

Also ,is there a way to seal the probe ring at the top of the reactor?

 

[Shirak]

Also ,is there a way to seal the probe ring at the top of the reactor?

Tightening the black nut compresses the rubber washer around the probe to make a watertight seal.

If you don’t want to use the probe I would just disconnect it but leave it in place instead of trying to cap the hole.

 

[FishTruck]

Tightening the black nut compresses the rubber washer around the probe to make a watertight seal.

If you don’t want to use the probe I would just disconnect it but leave it in place instead of trying to cap the hole.

Isn't there a little rubber dummy probe that can go in there? Can't remember.

 

[Shirak]

Isn't there a little rubber dummy probe that can go in there? Can't remember.

There might have been one shipped with the unit. I think mine had one

It was unclear if he wanted to cap the hole or was having trouble with the seal around the probe

 

[Yanir34]

I have ph probe ,also I have the plastic nut that geo sent me

 

[X-37B]

Mine looks like this. I got this used and it came with the plug.

 

[Shirak]

I have ph probe ,also I have the plastic nut that geo sent me

Ok so is there a problem with the probe seal? You’re going in all sorts of directions and now want to change the pump and the supply/return which shouldn’t make much of a difference unless there is an issue with the Kamoer pulling water from the second chamber properly.

I have a Geo with secondary chamber using a peristaltic pump pulling water through and have never had an issue with excess bubbles getting stuck in the main chamber.

 

[Shirak]

Ok so I just read your pH post..

“It 3 hours and 3 bubbles per second to go down from 6.6 to 6.5”

3 bubbles/ second is way way too much. Your flooding the reaction chamber with CO2 and most likely cavitating the circulation pump and reducing flow through the media

 

[Shirak]

You need a step back and start back at the beginning

 

[Yanir34]

O.k guys.
Right now , I'm suspecting that there is air leak somewhere in the reactor.

I replaced the plastic screws with smart locks , it seems to be more tight.

I put some silicone grease on the uni seals and O rings.

I wrapped all push connects fittings with silicone tape .

I put Reborn media ,instead of the big coral chunks.

Now only Kamoer is on.
Reculyting pump off.
Co2 off.

I turn the reactor on 30 minutes ago.

Still there is air bubbles building up in the top of the reactor.

To be honest, my tank is 2 years old ,heavily stock with SPS .
I'm dosing balling DIY since day one, including today.

I'm thinking about put this reactor in my fish room ,and never connect it again.

I thought that dosing 2,000 ml per day with balling is way too much for me ,but if this reactor will not work in proper way ,I'm going back to balling method ...I spent a lot of money on this reactor , huge disappointment

 

[Yanir34]

And this is my tank.
I really don't want to loose all my SPS because of technical problems.
I grew this corals from 1" frags .

 

[Yanir34]

I just find out that the inlet of water to the reactor.....puts bubbles from the sump ,directly to the reactor.
What can I do with that ?

 

[Yanir34]

I also have this filter that I got from GEO.
it will help with the bubbles ?

 

[Yanir34]

Or is it problem with the inlet fitting., that maybe drawing air ?

 

[Shirak]

No the inlet fitting isn't drawing air. There is a small bubble trapped where the inlet is. I do see a few micro bubbles coming in but not a lot. Turn on the recirculating pump. It is designed to pull bubbles from the lid and chop them into tiny bubbles so they will get pulled out of the reactor. All those small bubbles just sitting under the lid are not going to go anywhere otherwise. You can shake the reactor a bit to help them go out the outlet tube or let them get sucked up and chopped up by the recirculating pump.

Not sure I can follow your tubing connections though. Can you get pictures of the connections from the pump to the reactor and second reactor?

It really doesn't look all that bad to me. I would turn on the recirculating pump and give the reactor a few gentle shakes. I think I would turn on the CO2 with 10psi in the low pressure side and 15-20 bubbles/minute to start.

 

[Shirak]

And this is my tank.
I really don't want to loose all my SPS because of technical problems.
I grew this corals from 1" frags .

Tank looks great! Make sure you are continuing to dose as you have been until you have the reactor operating correctly.

 

[Yanir34]

It's almost 5 AM here...I'm relieved tired.
Will update tomorrow

 

[Yanir34]

Hello everyone, I literally tried everything to solve the bubbles and ph problems.
I'm sending the reactor back to GEO , for testing and to fix this problems.
Meanwhile I will continue with balling method.
Thanks for your comments !

 

[Shirak]

You can send it back if you want but quite frankly there is nothing wrong with the reactor.

Your jumping all over the place and blaming the reactor or some mysterious air leak when there isn't any that I can see. Make sure the tubing is inserted fully into each fitting.

Your posts are also confusing with contradicting information. In another thread you posted:
"So how do you test the internal ph in the reactor ?
I'm running 40 ml per minute ,and it gives me 31 dkh ,550 cal ,and 1400 mag"

In this thread you said it was not.. so which is it?

Did you even try turning on the recirculating pump and turning up the speed on the kamoer and shaking the main chamber lightly to clear the bubbles stuck to the underside of the lid?

 

[Yanir34]

You can send it back if you want but quite frankly there is nothing wrong with the reactor.

Your jumping all over the place and blaming the reactor or some mysterious air leak when there isn't any that I can see. Make sure the tubing is inserted fully into each fitting.

Your posts are also confusing with contradicting information. In another thread you posted:
"So how do you test the internal ph in the reactor ?
I'm running 40 ml per minute ,and it gives me 31 dkh ,550 cal ,and 1400 mag"

In this thread you said it was not.. so which is it?

Did you even try turning on the recirculating pump and turning up the speed on the kamoer and shaking the main chamber lightly to clear the bubbles stuck to the underside of the lid?

I probably was misunderstood:
I tuen on the reactor approximately 2 months ago.
At first operating everything was good.
Ph levels inside the reactor was good ,and I gotpreety good alk ,cal and mag .
All of that was good for about 2 weeks .
Since then , it was really hard for me to get good and reliable ph readings.
I replaced the ph electrode (twice) , and still - no ph reaction .

Meanwhile I've done deep search at the Internet, YouTube and so on....and fond out that bubbles in the reactor is bad thing ,due to the reason that mention in this post.

And yes I tried to turn on the kamoer on 100 ml for 12 hours - nothing happened.
Bubbles still build up in the top of the reactor.
I turned on the recirculation pump - still bubbles keep build up .
I'm assuming that those bubbles have direct connection to ph false readings (I can literally see them catch on the edge oh the probe)

So ,yes I did many attempts to operate the reactor in proper way.
I replaced the ph probe , bought silicon grease and handeld all uni seales and O rings.