Calcium reactor feed rate

[lacrosseboss18]

I was wondering how much water do you push through your calcium reactor?

I was looking to pick up kamoer FX-STP peristaltic continuous duty dosing pump which doses 1ml to 120ml/min. Would I ever need to exceed 120mls/min? Otherwise I was thinking about picking up one of the medical grade dosing pumps which can do more but it’s bigger and more expensive.

I’m running a 225g mainly SPS reef tank

Thanks in advance

 

[Breadman03]

Here’s my go-to calculator- http://reef.diesyst.com/reactor/reactor.html

I’m running 19,000 ml/day on a 230 gallon system with 0.2 dkh/day consumption.

 

[VJV]

Here’s my go-to calculator- http://reef.diesyst.com/reactor/reactor.html

I’m running 19,000 ml/day on a 230 gallon system with 0.2 dkh/day consumption.

Did you mean 0.2 dKH or 2.0??? My daily consumption is 1,5dKH and even when I had only a couple of LPS and softies it would be some 0,7dKH...

 

[SneakyTortuga]

I run the continuous flow method with my calcium reactor running 60ml/min through a kamoer. I wouldn’t run it at 120ml because it may get a little noisy but it is an awesome pump.

Note: I pull through my reactor not push

 

[Breadman03]

Did you mean 0.2 dKH or 2.0??? My daily consumption is 1,5dKH and even when I had only a couple of LPS and softies it would be some 0,7dKH...

0.2 I've been fixing some issues, partially due to erroneous test kits.

 

[VJV]

0.2 I've been fixing some issues, partially due to erroneous test kits.

Sad to hear! Hope you get over it soon. With such low consumption your SPS are likely not doing so well [emoji51].

So if we can extrapolate, for a daily consumption of 1,5dKH you would need to dose some 140.000ml daily, or above 90ml per minute... close to the pump max 120ml/min.