Who runs a Calcium reactor 24/7?

[rocko918]

I screwed up the settings on my reactor. now i am trying to get my alk up and ph stable. I have only run it while the lights were on. I am thinking i might change that based on the ph in the media. any thoughts?

 

what do you do?

[Supernova26]

I run mine 24/7 based on the ph in the reactor. Keeps allk stable. If I need to increase the alk. I lower the ph slightly. Hope that helps

[Coral Hind]

I have always ran mine 24/7.

[davelin315]

Before my crash I ran it 24/7 as well on a pH controller.

[Origami]

I ran mine 24/7, but on a peristaltic pump that ran 23 minutes out of every hour (so it wasn't quite 24/7). I arrived at the 23 minutes by monitoring and stabilizing the alk in the tank (to balance consumption and supplementation). I flowed CO2 only when the pH in the reaction chamber was greater than some threshold to ensure that the effluent had the desired alk and calcium concentration.

[Der ABT]

24/7 here controlled by my acIII

[rocko918]

of those who do run them 24/7 What type of media are you using and what is the ph in your reactor.

[GraffitiSpotCorals]

I run it all the time, ph is set from 6.39 to 6.56 or something along thoes lines from what I remember. I use arm, the small stuff. My ph in the main tank now stays at 7.9 to 8.1 from night and day. Thats now that I put the reactor drip in the skimmer area.

[Fazio92]

I run mine 24/7

 

-Anthony

[flowerseller]

I do Bob, CO2 controlled by the acIII

[davelin315]

When it was running I had mine using the larger chunks from Gen X. I am not very fond of this media, however, as I never really saw much happening with it even when I dropped my pH in the reactor down to close to 6. My CA, however, did stay fairly stable at a pretty high level (just over 400).

[scott711]

24/7 here too with aragonite.