Installing my CA reactor... good bye 2part!

Discussion in 'Filters, Pumps, etc..' started by Thatgrimguy, Jun 15, 2012.

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  1. Thatgrimguy

    Thatgrimguy Flying Squid

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    recalibrated and now all is acting right!
     
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    I'm happy to hear it was a simple cheap fix :)
     
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    Still seems to be taking a lot more co2 than I feel it should... i am running 100 bubbles per minute and 15lbs of pressure. And it's slowly reducing now.. Doesn't that just seem weird?
     
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    My sumps ph is down to 7.61ph and my reactor is still managing to climb above 6.7ph despite being fed with 106 bubble per minute at 15lbs of pressure... This is on a freshly checked and properly calibrated ph probe.
     
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    Gotta pull the reactor apart. Talked to George with Geo, and he thinks and I agree that there were some stoppers in the pump and I never removed them.. I'm not circulating in the reactor.
     
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    There we go!!! Ok, there are two rubber stoppers that the pan world pump is shipped that plug the in and out.. I never removed them!! SO there was no reciruclatong happening. That was the deal!
     
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    Since I had to fully break down the reactor, I'm going to let it run bubbles out and let my ph get back above 8 before turning the co2 back on. I'm hoping I will be back up and ready to roll by Thursday morning. This has been quite the learning experience so far.
     
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    Glad you got it figured out. :)
     
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    It's amazing how quickly this has now turned around. My tank already hit 8ph and the reactor was down to 6.7 with 15 bubbles per minute in an hour, lol.


    Everything is working wonderfully now. I cut the recirc pump off and worked a lot of the bubbles out and went ahead. My alk dropped pretty seriously last night. I'm down to 7.5 dkh. I must have gotten no alk out of the reactor so far.
     
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    WOW lol alot of problems happy to see all is well now ;D