Cloudy calcium reactor

[action21]

Have calcium reactor running for apx 4 months. Clouds up as shown in picture. Have a kamoer pump pulling solution thru it and into tank.

running at slowest setting on varios controller.

obviously not doing this right and could use some help. Reactor was Xmas gift

 

[action21]

Co2 bubble rate? 50 bubbles per min
Feed rate from the kamoer?85.1
Is the reactor full to the top with media? No
Flow pump working well? ????
Do you have your check valve in correct direction? Yes

 

[dank reefer]

Did you rinse the media before you put it in the reactor?

 

[action21]

Yes. It’s been running since Xmas. If I turn valve top left to almost closed it clears up but then kamoer feed line collapses from suction

 

[dank reefer]

And its been cloudy since you set it up, or did it just start happening.

 

[action21]

If I turn the upper blue valve to almost closed then it clears up but after a while suction tube collapses to kamoer

 

[dank reefer]

do you know where your PH is at in the reactor? Can it be that you're melting the media pretty fast?

@jda Any advise?

 

[action21]

If I turn the upper blue valve to almost closed then it clears up but after a while suction tube collapses to kamoer

 

[PeterC99]

Have exact same Calcium Reactor - Never had the cloudy issue. Would take out old media and replace with rinsed new media.

 

[jda]

Are you sure that the reactor water is really cloudy and that it is not a film on the inside of the reactor walls?

What is the dKh of the effluent? I don't trust a pH probe and I recommend that nobody does either... they are the weakest link in a system of otherwise high quality stuff.

 

[Shirak]

If I turn the upper blue valve to almost closed then it clears up but after a while suction tube collapses to kamoer

I think you are not getting water from the tank into the reactor properly and you are creating a vacuum in the CaRx chamber as evidenced by your note that when you close the valve on the suction side of the pump the CaRx clears.. the CO2 is going back into solution.

 

[action21]

That was it. Pebble stuck in water intake hose. Thank you all