Because I have mental issues which force me to keep buying new equipment when Im bored, I thought Id see where everyone else is at on the ozone subject and share my thoughts on my setup.
2 months ago I started entertaining the idea of running ozone. I did my norm, research, research, research. Read possible benefits and negatives. Ozone leakage and how to control it was my "don't get it" concern, but me being me, I knew someone had a answer for this.
I came across Avast's Mutiny v2 ozone reactor, problem solved.
I ordered the mutiny, carbon reactor to go with it and Poseidon 200. Avast said you may or may not need a air dryer.
Not going to lie, was a little taken back when I opened the mutiny box, hoses and barbs everywhere. After 5 minutes of looking it over, I had a grasp on how she works.
Mutiny came with a sicce 1.5 to recirculate the water/ozone mix. Also a sicce .5 for water return. Plus a small air pump and ozone safe tubing. Extremely well put together package.
Hooked everything up and ran 24 hours with ozone off per avasts directions (10 years ago I would have just started it off the get go)
My normal orp is around 300-325, my target was 400. 2 days of struggling and I wasn't getting over 335, no benefits observed. Had the point of sale 200 set at 10 and max air flow, set output flow to 35 gph as recommended, So I started researching when a air dryer was needed. Best info I found is 30% humidity is the magic point. Im at 40-45% in my basement so I ordered a BRS large silica air dryer. Excellent heavy duty unit, was impressed. ORP instantly shot up. After I crested 400, I turned on the apex orp control on that outlet. I set it for 400 low and 415 high. After the air dryer, I'm now set at 1/4 air flow and 2 on the point of sale and 35 gph on the return pump.
Setup was mutiny in the sump, carbon reactor is just in front of the sump for now, return line runs to my nyos skimmer water intake (just in front of it, to suck the air bubbles up) then a vent hose out the top of the skimmer to my air exhaust box (that was already installed, hate the smell)
After a month of a solid 400 ORP setting I can say I like the results.
Non beneficial results I noticed are water clarity, reduced brown/red algae, normal tank smell gone.
Beneficial results were all my LPS and softies almost doubled in size for how big they open. Had one mushroom split then another move away from the new split, crawled onto a little rock, i took him out and relocated him in my other tank, had wanted to do that forever. Clam extension was noticeably bigger. Skimmer produces stuff like I've never seen before
I am extremely happy with the results over the last month.
If you run ozone too, what are you target numbers and what if anything have you noticed?
Positive, negative, nothing, etc?
2 months ago I started entertaining the idea of running ozone. I did my norm, research, research, research. Read possible benefits and negatives. Ozone leakage and how to control it was my "don't get it" concern, but me being me, I knew someone had a answer for this.
I came across Avast's Mutiny v2 ozone reactor, problem solved.
I ordered the mutiny, carbon reactor to go with it and Poseidon 200. Avast said you may or may not need a air dryer.
Not going to lie, was a little taken back when I opened the mutiny box, hoses and barbs everywhere. After 5 minutes of looking it over, I had a grasp on how she works.
Mutiny came with a sicce 1.5 to recirculate the water/ozone mix. Also a sicce .5 for water return. Plus a small air pump and ozone safe tubing. Extremely well put together package.
Hooked everything up and ran 24 hours with ozone off per avasts directions (10 years ago I would have just started it off the get go)
My normal orp is around 300-325, my target was 400. 2 days of struggling and I wasn't getting over 335, no benefits observed. Had the point of sale 200 set at 10 and max air flow, set output flow to 35 gph as recommended, So I started researching when a air dryer was needed. Best info I found is 30% humidity is the magic point. Im at 40-45% in my basement so I ordered a BRS large silica air dryer. Excellent heavy duty unit, was impressed. ORP instantly shot up. After I crested 400, I turned on the apex orp control on that outlet. I set it for 400 low and 415 high. After the air dryer, I'm now set at 1/4 air flow and 2 on the point of sale and 35 gph on the return pump.
Setup was mutiny in the sump, carbon reactor is just in front of the sump for now, return line runs to my nyos skimmer water intake (just in front of it, to suck the air bubbles up) then a vent hose out the top of the skimmer to my air exhaust box (that was already installed, hate the smell)
After a month of a solid 400 ORP setting I can say I like the results.
Non beneficial results I noticed are water clarity, reduced brown/red algae, normal tank smell gone.
Beneficial results were all my LPS and softies almost doubled in size for how big they open. Had one mushroom split then another move away from the new split, crawled onto a little rock, i took him out and relocated him in my other tank, had wanted to do that forever. Clam extension was noticeably bigger. Skimmer produces stuff like I've never seen before
I am extremely happy with the results over the last month.
If you run ozone too, what are you target numbers and what if anything have you noticed?
Positive, negative, nothing, etc?