Calcium reactor off manifold flow

[JAMSOURY]

I’m planning on feeding my calcium reactor off my manifold. How do you determine how much flow is good enough?

 

[GoVols]

I’m planning on feeding my calcium reactor off my manifold. How do you determine how much flow is good enough?

Please don't use your manifold for the feed. The pressure will vary and your cal reactor's effluent rate won't stay constant.

Get the Sicce .5 pump, for the feed and leave it running all the time.

Use a needle valve after the reactor and shoot for a small constant stream.

This is @hybridazn 's constant stream and it's shows his needle valve too.

And... Rolling the same way over here.

 

[JAMSOURY]

Please don't use your manifold for the feed. The pressure will vary and your cal reactor's effluent rate won't stay constant.

Get the Sicce .5 pump, for the feed and leave it running all the time.

Use a needle valve after the reactor and shoot for a small constant stream.

This is @hybridazn 's constant stream and it's shows his needle valve too.

And... Rolling the same way over here.

Cool, I’ll look into that. Are you tuning your calcium reactor according to ph melting point? That way you can leave the needle valve open?

 

[JAMSOURY]

Anyone else recommend against pushing water from a manifold?

 

[GoVols]

Cool, I’ll look into that. Are you tuning your calcium reactor according to ph melting point? That way you can leave the needle valve open?

Yeah,
Small constant stream, and tune in your ph melting point to your reef's intake.

Use the Reborn media and soak up the video.
Using Apex Fusion.


Forget the manifold. When you shut down the main pump for a water change (or other reactor adjustments), it might not keep your cal reactor's flow the same when firing back up the main pump.

 

[Scdell]

Yeah,
Small constant stream, and tune in your ph melting point to your reef's intake.

Use the Reborn media and soak up the video.
Using Apex Fusion.


Forget the manifold. When you shut down the main pump for a water change (or other reactor adjustments), it might not keep your cal reactor's flow the same when firing back up the main pump.

I'm going to be setting a Geo reactor up soon. This is the way I was thinking it worked. Sounds simple enough.

 

[bdare]

Anyone else recommend against pushing water from a manifold?

Me. I assumed this is the way everyone did it for a long time so I thought I'd try it. All the feedback about this method are accurate in my experience. I found myself always needed to adjust the flow because of varying pressure to the reactor. I'm currently trying to feed the reactor with a MJ1200. If this doesn't provide better results I will bite the bullet and buy a peristalic pump.