Thats good advice, I am going to run mine back to my skimmer because I have a 4 by 12" reactor packed full of the media and the top 1/4 of the media is already turning light purple after a week. I shook up the media good to make sure it wasn't making a path through it somehow but I think I might need to get two reactors to keep the ph stable. I used to have a high of 8 RARELY and now its at 8.3-8.4 average. I am just waiting to see if it improves the coral health and tank somehow. A lot of people say they need to dose more alk and calcium after just of a few days.