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Interesting. They all use the same media as far as I am aware and both of the ones I mentioned are colour changing - usually starting white and turning purple but sometimes the other way.
Is it ok to keep the BRS calcium chloride for Ca and the Magnesium Chloride and magnesium sulfate for the Mg?
I wonder the exact reason why BRS says to add this.
https://www.bulkreefsupply.com/instructions/article/co2-scrubber-installation
You do not want to dissolve the media by getting it soaking wet, but it works better in higher humidity environments.
If I can do it, anybody can, . When I moved to kalk, I just noticed through testing that it was keeping up with my calcium, but not my alk, alk continued to drop on kalk alone. So I added soda ash as another dose. Adding just about 10 ml of soda ash daily in addition to kalk. As long as my calcium is maintained by kalk, I needed something else up add alk.how do you dose 2 part and kalk.....is that hard to dial in?
That's interesting. Knowing that, I would have thought ATI and Fauna Marin might have designed it in a similar way to the BRS one, although I suppose not using water completely removes the possibility of getting the media wet. I wonder what the actual difference in pH increase is between using water and not using it.You do not want to dissolve the media by getting it soaking wet, but it works better in higher humidity environments.
That's interesting. Knowing that, I would have thought ATI and Fauna Marin might have designed it in a similar way to the BRS one, although I suppose not using water completely removes the possibility of getting the media wet. I wonder what the actual difference in pH increase is between using water and not using it.
I think you have a good plan on waiting to add the scrubber.Thank you.
I have a refugium with a Kessil H80 on it with chaeto.
I also have fresh air lines running to my skimmer.
I don't really want to go the CO2 scrubber route.
I may just see how things go for 3-6 months and monitor growth of corals. If I see decent growth then it's not really a concern. I am at a pH of 8 during the day....I just would have liked it to be around 8.2-8.3 for better coral growth.
Thank you.
I have a refugium with a Kessil H80 on it with chaeto.
I also have fresh air lines running to my skimmer.
I don't really want to go the CO2 scrubber route.
I may just see how things go for 3-6 months and monitor growth of corals. If I see decent growth then it's not really a concern. I am at a pH of 8 during the day....I just would have liked it to be around 8.2-8.3 for better coral growth.
The Y will not work, air will always take the path of least resistance. No air will,reach the skimmer that went through the CO2 media.You can do a scrubber as a supplement as well and get longer life from it by putting a "Y" between the skimmer and the CO2 scrubber. That way you won't exhaust your media nearly as fast and get a longer usage of it as well as get a boost in you pH. Your skimmer will pull both CO2 rich air and CO2 scrubbed air at the same time. I bet doing that you would get somewhere around 2 weeks out of the media (don't quote me on that, just a guess because I get a solid week pulling scrubbed air from 1 canister).
I personally do not see scrubbing as being expensive since I purchased 5 gallons (40lbs) of media for $143 shipping included on 2/21/18 (https://www.amronintl.com/wr-grace-sodasorb-carbon-dioxide-absorbents.html). I haven't even used 1/4 of the media since then and I am scrubbing with 3 scrubbers (2 on DT and 1 on frag). I can easily see my media lasting me 6 months at this rate. The key in buying in bulk and not the little 9lb jug from BRS (now that is where it will get expensive).
BRS is great but by my math, I would have spent $222 for the same amount of media (almost $100 more).