Are Calcium Reactors Difficult? No Way! Avoiding These Mistakes Means Easier Than Two Part Dosing.

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Reef tank 2-part dosing vs. Kalkwasser vs. Calcium Reactor? If you think any one of these is more difficult than the other....it's time to reconsider. Here's our Top 20 ways to make calcium reactors even easier!
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00:00 Calcium Reactor Mistakes
00:13 Thinking They Are Complicated
01:07 Not Pegging The pH
02:01 Not Using A Continuous Duty Pump
03:26 Not Considering Your Trends of pH In Your Tank
04:20 Going Cheap On Your CO2 Regulator
06:00 Not Accounting For Space
06:47 Not Considering Phosphate
07:37 Not Considering Smaller vs Larger Media
09:03 Not Considering The Size Of Your Reactor
10:07 Depending On Your Reactor To Add Trace Elements
11:16 Not Testing Your Effluent
12:27 Not Considering A Kalkwasser Combo
13:33 Assuming They Need To Run 24/7
14:40 Not Calibrating Flow Rate Or Pumps
15:31 Not Doing Regular Maintenance
16:54 Not Considering A Needle Valve
17:57 Placing It Where You Can’t Conduct Maintenance
18:28 Not Considering Feeding It Into The Fuge
19:08 Not Considering Magnesium Media
19:48 Placing It Near A Light Source
20:25 Ending Thoughts

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@richardguerra7515 3 жыл бұрын

You guys should make a how to setup and dial in a cal reactor with a kalk stirrer video

@timothydillard9507 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this guys! I’ve always been intimidated by calcium reactors and this helpful video has solidified by opinion to stay away. No sarcasm, I sincerely appreciate this content. Saves me money and future headaches. I will stick w my All For Reef and kalkwaser ATO set up combo and sleep well at night. Keep these videos coming! 🐠

@bastianhomes4302 3 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing. I will keep using my two part.

@rpeebles 3 жыл бұрын

Just got mine setup and dialed in and 100 times easier than my apex DOS and 2 part constantly dying or losing programming! The Milwalkee ph controller takes the guess work out and it doesn't just forget what you had set. The Kamer pump is also set and forget. Took me a few days to learn that the ARM media would not dissolve enough at 6.5 so I am running 6.0 to get a decent effluent strength. Very happy and helps me sleep better knowing everything is set properly and not going to quit.

@vascojardim6703 3 жыл бұрын

You guys hit the nail on something I have been thinking about for a while: I would use the Calcium reactor during the day only, with the effluent running into a refugium, which would be on during daytime and not reverse to combat the low pH from the effluent. At night I would supplement only with Kalk connected to a dosing pump and a kalk stirrer, which should be enough given corals only consume 10-15% of the total daily consumption during the dark hours. This way you can probably achieve a very stable pH throughout the whole day which should be better than the 0,3-0,4 daily swings we typically have.

@flashkan 3 жыл бұрын

Tip: peg your ph, then over time, tune your bubble rate close, but slightly above the rate necessary. If your ph controller or probe ever dies, you can keep the reactor on until you are able to get a replacement with little impact to the tank.

@joevallino 3 жыл бұрын

It's useful to have two 5 lb co2 tanks, because it's often way cheaper to have them filled at places that fill fire extinguishers, but you have to drop the tanks off for a few days. Plus, having a filled backup tank around is useful too.

@Emmanuel-rs7eu 3 жыл бұрын

How about a complete guide video on using a calcium reactor with kalkwasser? For small or big systems would be great to watch!

@mannya1171 2 жыл бұрын

Wow thanks great stuff!!! 👌🏻👌🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

@reconnaissance7372 3 жыл бұрын

People often say you don't want to put your hands in your tank because you don't know what's in the tank. And some say because you don't want to contaminate the tank which I agree with more. It's really circumstantial and these tips generally apply to specific scenarios. I'm just typing this because as soon as I set up my Marine fish tank, Dermatitis that I have had on my hands for 3 years has entirely cleared up within 2 weeks of maintaining the aquarium. I think it has something to do with the salt water but it's super interesting and I also thought prior to buying it, it could exacerbate my problem because of the salt. But nope. I feel like it's literally some kind of medicine that no-one talks about.

@reggie8566 3 жыл бұрын

I would love that setup, one day hopefully.

@lundiboy8 3 жыл бұрын

I needed the bare minimum because I had the majority of the setup from a freshwater setup so It was not expensive for me. Green Leaf Aquariums makes quality regulators. I have mostly lps and have mine pegged at 7ph at 4ml a min. Works perfect in my system and I have not had to add media still after like a year and a half. Bullet proof to me. Set it and forget it. Alk is a consistant 8 to 8.3

@temushin 3 жыл бұрын

How did you know this was exactly the information I was looking for?

@Ruffles206 3 жыл бұрын

thank you guys for these video i set up my calciun reactor 3 weeks ago and i was confucin about that

@AJ-bi6ns 3 жыл бұрын

Seems like a CO2 reactor is the last piece of “tech” I don’t have. Just recently installed a UV sterilizer. SPS haven’t even taken off yet and I’m already dosing beyond 65ml a day of two part... Seems like a reactor could be on the horizon

@sergeykachan352 3 жыл бұрын

Waiting for video about ICP tests of influent from different calcium reactor media. It will be very interesting.

@amirafiq7191 2 жыл бұрын

Hai guys...normal my CR pump warm?that canister CR also ..im new using CR..2day right now

@paularamos5648 3 жыл бұрын

Tanks. Like used cars no 2 alike

@miltonenglish1679 3 жыл бұрын

can you use the to feed the reactor? The Kamoer cost $300?

@elviskrause2925 Жыл бұрын

Does anybody use crushed oyster shell that you would buy from farm supply in these things? The bags a big and cheap people feed it to chickens to supplement calcium in their diet so eggs shells are nice and hard.

@danc9866 3 жыл бұрын

Makes me want to get a smaller aquamaxx once I get some stony stuff

@MACNTOSFAM Ай бұрын

so a calcium rx is an equipment to maintain alkalinity. never had one before

@ydeardorff 3 жыл бұрын

Can a hydroponics CO2 system work with a cakc reactor?

@michaelg8484 3 жыл бұрын

What is the size of the calcium reactor in the video.

@ydeardorff 3 жыл бұрын

Can then effluent be captured and stored for later use?

@BRStv 3 жыл бұрын

Great question! This is something we'll have to experiment with in the near future to find out the answer :D

@paularamos5648 3 жыл бұрын

When should I do first gravel clean??? With water change or, wait have had fish for 1 week and ran tank for 6.7 weeks. I went thru cycle.

@mikelee35 3 жыл бұрын

Every tank is different, I time my cleaning schedule based off my nitrates, if I notice my nitrates creeping up I clean a little more and a little sooner, if your nitrates are close to 0 then you won't need to clean much at all

@BRStv 3 жыл бұрын

You may want to hold off cleaning the sandbed for the first few weeks as that's a great place for nitrifying bacteria to populate. Once you're a month or so into your new system, then consider cleaning small sections of sand at a time.

@paularamos5648 3 жыл бұрын

Thank u 8 weeks in now and added a day wet dry is that ok 250 gph.