Co2 Scrubber Help

[CarolineJ]

I've been struggling keeping my pH up in my 29 gallon BC. I end up around 7.8 every couple days after adding "eight five". I do weekly water changes and my other parameters are all good. LFS guy said its because I have 3 cats and 4 people in my house with the air conditioner on and I need a scrubber. I bought a basic BRS scrubber and media, but I can't figure out how to hook it up to my BC coralife skimmer. Please be gentle, I'm only 6+ months in and I try and do my research before doing anything. Pic of the scrubber I purchased attached.

 

[Waboss]

If it's the one I'm thinking of, you can take the black valve/silencer thingy off the tube that's connected to the pump, and runs up next to the collection cup. Then get a barbed connector and connect the hose from the BRS scrubber to the skimmer tube (where you removed the valve/silencer). That should have it pulling air through the scrubber and CO2 absorbing media.

If that's not the skimmer I'm thinking about, the same logic works for pretty much all of them. Just find the air intake tube that runs to the pump and connect that tube to the tubing from the srubber.

 

[CarolineJ]

If it's the one I'm thinking of, you can take the black valve off the tube that's connected to the pump, and runs up next to the collection cup. Then get a barbed connector and connect the hose from the BRS scrubber to the skimmer tube (where you removed the valve). That should have it pulling air through the scrubber and CO2 absorbing media.

If that's not the skimmer I'm thinking about, the same logic works for pretty much all of them. Just find the air intake tube that runs to the pump and connect that tube to the tubing from the srubber.

I attached a picture of the skimmer I have. Thank you so much! I really appreciate it. This reefing business gets confusing sometimes and I want to do the right thing

 

[Waboss]

Yep, that's it. Just remove that black thing off the tube and use a barbed connector, or connection method of your choice, to connect the tube from the scrubber to that tube.

 

[CarolineJ]

Yep, that's it. Just remove that black thing off the tube and use a barbed connector, or connection method of your choice, to connect the tube from the scrubber to that tube.

Thank you!!

 

[BryanS]

just a note, but one way to test whether a CO2 scrubber might make a difference is just to open a window for the day and see if that helps raise pH. You can even get a similar effect by running the airline from the skimmer air intake out a window and don't need the CO2 media. In my limited experience I've seen that I can get about 80% of the improvement with an airline out a nearby window that I get with a CO2 scrubber but with no media to refill.

 

[PharmrJohn]

Another thing you can do is run an air line directly from the outside to the skimmer. I plan on doing this to avoid buying a CO2 Scrubber altogether. But this necessitates the actual option of running a line.