WOOOW this sump will be the dream of most reefers !!!! Great set up !!!
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WOOOW this sump will be the dream of most reefers !!!! Great set up !!!
Very nice set up!
Well it has been a while since I posted an update of the system :/ mea culpa.
Maybe lack of time and dedication, but it's ok I got something nice to show. I know it's not just me that love a nice piece of equipment ahah
So here it is FINALLY the calcium reactor, installed in the 1st of March and since then the transition from Core7 to Ca reactor is done, and I'm now on my "new method" Core7 + Calcoum reactor.
What did I do ?
Added pH expantion module for the Profilux 4
GHL pH probe
GHL Doser Maxi (to feed the calcium reactor) yes.
GHL Solenoid
Co2 bottle a.K.A. fire extinguisher ahah
CaribSea ARM Coarse media
Vertex Calcium Reactor
How is it working?
Profilx is maintaining a pH inside the reactor between ~6.48 e ~6.6
The doser Maxi at the moment is dosing 650ml 48x per day this gives me a 1,3L/h of water flowing trough the reactor, if I need to raise the dKh I'll just raise this dose and if I need to reduce the dKh I'll reduce it.
Core7 came down from 50ml/day to 12ml/day it will stay this way since it seems to be the ideal dosage to maintain a stable pH inside the tank ( Ca Rx pH acid vs Core7 pH basic).
dKh is stable at a value of 7 dKh controlled by the KH Director, a very important piece of the puzzle that gave me a lot of peace of mind throughout the change over.
The system is now 100% automated the only thing I can't control is the co2 cubble count (but that's alright) ahah
Finally some photos of the sump area plus some news that will come up in future updates
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Espectacular! (That means awesome for the non Portuguese speaking crowd [emoji4]).
I tried the switch to CaRX about 8months ago and failed miserably! My pH crashed to lows of 7,4, my acros really did not like it. I started adding kalk in the ATO, brought the refugium back online in an inverted photoperiod but still I was getting pH as low as 7,65 during the night and a max of 7,8.
Also, the reactor was self fed (not possible to connect to a dosing pump) so as the line clogged over the period of two weeks the effluent rate would go down so my Alk would swing (no KH Director [emoji13])
Went back to dosing (this time the new ARO essentials pro which only requires two heads and no mixing) and everything rebounded.
Questions:
1- HOW did you get your hands on the Vertex ? I could not find it in any of the usual European online stores!
2- what is tour effluent Alk? I used the same media and for the life of me I could not get it above 17dKH, even with the reactor pH set to 6.0 on the Profilux [emoji33] (likely due to the fact that the media volume of my reactor was just 1,85L which i believe it is clearly insufficient for a 180g tank that was consuming 1,5dK per day). This in turn also likely explained the huge impact in the tanks pH.
3- are you dosing Triton at night only yo smooth out the pH impact?
Obrigado [emoji4]
Thanks! The other interesting idea I have toyed around with is setting different pH levels in the reactor for night and day. Say 7.0 at night and 6.5 during the day? This would lower night pH impact as well as dose less concentrated solution at night when corals are not consuming. Probably stabilize night/day Alk swings [emoji4].
Also interesting your choice of feed pump. Typically people use continuous dosing pumps such as the kamoer. I guess you prefer the controllability of the Doser Maxi but I wonder how long will the pump heads last dosing 48.000ml a day....?
Just gorgeous Pedro!!
Can I ask whst camera you use?
I bet that 80mm macro prime is in your shopping cart... or perhaps the 16mm prime that can almost do Macro [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]
That is the problem with the Fuji X system: so many great lenses you always have the next purchase on your shopping cart