Settings help - Aquarium plants regulator

[gnoles]

I've set up my GEO 612 Calcium Reactor with an aquarium plants (2nd best, not the new electronic one) regulator. Now I have opened the tank and everything seems to be going well, but I'm getting conflicting settings for the PSI on the reactor side of the regulator.

Heck, I'd like to know what to see on both sides :xd:

I've heard under 4 psi, 8 psi and 10-15 psi... I don't need an exploding acrylic bomb in the family room... any experience out there?

Thanks!

 

[dknuckles]

I would start low then work higher(constantly check Ca, Alk, Ph levels). W/ the higher pressure it will dump more bubbles per cycle. On mine 10psi sound like an air hose shooting in the reactor.

 

[gnoles]

Thanks dknuckles... I've moved it to about 6 psi and it's stable. I'll give it a day and recheck my levels. I may have to drop my effluent as the reactor is getting down to about 6.9 or so.

 

[Fishcrazy06]

I am by no means an expert but isn't the setting just how much CO2 is released? IE the higher the number the quicker the CO2 will come out? Its all really adjusted by the effluent out and where the Controller is set? I could be wrong though.

Eric

 

[gnoles]

I'm getting about 30 bubbles a minute and 35 ml of effluent. It's settling in again from 20bpm/35ml. I'll check it again tomorrow and see if I'm in the sweet spot. I will say this for the regulator and the GEO 612... they really are set and forget.