Help me understand co2 scrubber

[wooderbox]

I have a relatively small AIO system so I am not running a skimmer in the system. I am dosing kalk but ph still drops below 7.8 at night and I would like it to be little higher.

I ordered a co2 scrubber, and I looked up if anyone shared their setup with an air pump. Not much information was found other than people running it with their skimmers.

It will be here this Thursday so I havent run it yet. Am I understanding it right though?Do I hook it up from an air pump -> air hose -> co2 scrubber intake -> co2 scrubber outtake -> air hose -> air stone?

Will it still increase the ph in the system even though the air is coming from the outside? I thought it was supposed to remove co2 in the water.

 

[Subsea]

I have a relatively small AIO system so I am not running a skimmer in the system. I am dosing kalk but ph still drops below 7.8 at night and I would like it to be little higher.

I ordered a co2 scrubber, and I looked up if anyone shared their setup with an air pump. Not much information was found other than people running it with their skimmers.

It will be here this Thursday so I havent run it yet. Am I understanding it right though?Do I hook it up from an air pump -> air hose -> co2 scrubber intake -> co2 scrubber outtake -> air hose -> air stone?

Will it still increase the ph in the system even though the air is coming from the outside? I thought it was supposed to remove co2 in the water.

The assumption for this to work is that outside air has less CO2 than inside air.

 

[Gatorpa]

Typically the scrubber is connected to a skimmer and that sucks air through the media to lower the CO2.
Variations included running an outside airline through the scrubber to the Skimmer(that’s what I do).

For your application the air stone would need to have an inlet to connect a tube to draw air from the scrubber and then force into the tank. I’m not sure you will get the same effect as the dissolved CO2 in the tank water is what is removed vis the skimmer.

Try it and see.

 

[Fritz05]

CO2 scrubber without skimmer

Skimmerless CO2 Scrubber Build I'm writing this build thread for a CO2 scrubber setup without the need for a skimmer since I had a difficult time finding anyone who had done this. The plumbing is simple: air pump --> CO2 canister with sodalime --> an airstone placed in your sump or tank I...

www.reef2reef.com

 

[Dave Clark]

CO2 scrubber without skimmer

Skimmerless CO2 Scrubber Build I'm writing this build thread for a CO2 scrubber setup without the need for a skimmer since I had a difficult time finding anyone who had done this. The plumbing is simple: air pump --> CO2 canister with sodalime --> an airstone placed in your sump or tank I...

www.reef2reef.com

Interesting, no mention of feeding the air pump with outside air.

 

[Dave Clark]

I have a relatively small AIO system so I am not running a skimmer in the system. I am dosing kalk but ph still drops below 7.8 at night and I would like it to be little higher.

I ordered a co2 scrubber, and I looked up if anyone shared their setup with an air pump. Not much information was found other than people running it with their skimmers.

It will be here this Thursday so I havent run it yet. Am I understanding it right though?Do I hook it up from an air pump -> air hose -> co2 scrubber intake -> co2 scrubber outtake -> air hose -> air stone?

Will it still increase the ph in the system even though the air is coming from the outside? I thought it was supposed to remove co2 in the water.

Did you eventually set up your scrubber?