Some one please help me!!!

PerplexyHexy · Apr 27, 2019

So I just hooked up my kamoer pump to pull from my korallin calcium reactor... I just wanna know If I have this installed correctly...

I have the inlet coming from the rubbermaid sump to the korallin carx then the outlet going to the 2nd chamber then I have 1/4” rodi coming out the 2nd chamber and used the barbed fitting that came with the kamoer to connect 1/4 rodi line to the 3/8” od tubing back to the kamoer... everything seems to be working fine... set it at 20 ml/min and a bubble every 10 seconds... issue Im having now is that the drip seems inconsistent and the bubble from the carbondoser is inconsistent as well... there is a bubble every 5 seconds, not 10... Ibe tried all sorts of different psi and check valves... still the same... Im losing my mind... hoping someone can gibe me some solid advice or Im just gonna toss this thing in the garbage... lol

P-Dub · Apr 27, 2019

PerplexyHexy said:
So I just hooked up my kamoer pump to pull from my korallin calcium reactor... I just wanna know If I have this installed correctly...

I have the inlet coming from the rubbermaid sump to the korallin carx then the outlet going to the 2nd chamber then I have 1/4” rodi coming out the 2nd chamber and used the barbed fitting that came with the kamoer to connect 1/4 rodi line to the 3/8” od tubing back to the kamoer... everything seems to be working fine... set it at 20 ml/min and a bubble every 10 seconds... issue Im having now is that the drip seems inconsistent and the bubble from the carbondoser is inconsistent as well... there is a bubble every 5 seconds, not 10... Ibe tried all sorts of different psi and check valves... still the same... Im losing my mind... hoping someone can gibe me some solid advice or Im just gonna toss this thing in the garbage... lol

I'm a fan of pushing not pulling particularly with peristaltic pumps. Some air/co2 in the chambers will always be in the line at some point messing with your flow. Push and you eliminate this equation.

sghera64 · Apr 27, 2019

P-Dub said:
I'm a fan of pushing not pulling particularly with peristaltic pumps. Some air/co2 in the chambers will always be in the line at some point messing with your flow. Push and you eliminate this equation.

Written like an engineer (I loved Fluids courses). Makes me want to pull my Crane tech paper 410 out.

PerplexyHexy · Apr 27, 2019

Effluent is 15 dkh with whats been running for the past few hours... at 18ml/min and apex controller keeping internal ph of carx at 6.5

PerplexyHexy · Apr 28, 2019

Effluent is just staying at 15 now... I have it controlled with the apex and it ran at 5ml/min... something forsnt seem right here... im pretty much pulling the plug... I emailed brs to let them know about the inconsistently that Im having with the carbondoser... If that thing worked properly, I wouodnt be having issues... even once the apex shuts down the carbondoser it still has bubbles come out for a good 3 mins... Im pretty mich over it now... probably just gonna shut it down... I dont have the time to mess around with this thing anymore... its wasting my time...

PerplexyHexy · Apr 28, 2019

Taking the entire thing apart when I get off work tonight and gonna clean and inspect everything and put it back together and try again... If it doesnt work... im over it and moving on

Randy Holmes-Farley · Apr 28, 2019

Why do you think it’s not working? 15 dKH might be adequate depending on tank demand and flow rate.

PerplexyHexy · Apr 28, 2019

Randy Holmes-Farley said:
Why do you think it’s not working? 15 dKH might be adequate depending on tank demand and flow rate.

Im just confused... at the 5ml/min and my apex controlling the internal ph at 6.7, wouldnt the effluent be in the mid 20s? Im still trying to understand this whole carx stuff... the carbon doser is not working like everyone has described as well... No matter what I set the carbon doser at, its never what it says on the dial... I set it at 10 seconds for every bubble and it gives me a bubble every 5 seconds and out of sync with the red indicator blink... ive tried 5,10, and 15 psi... obviously the higher I went the faster the bubble got... at 10 seconds every bubble and psi @ 15 it was coming oit every 2 seconds... pretty sure that thing isnt supposed to be that difficult to work... lol... and Im still getting air collecting at the too of the reactor... right now I seriously have the carbondoser set at 1.5psi and 10 on the dial and its giving me a bubble every 7 seconds... best I could get... also with the apex, I have it holding at 6.7, it clicks on/off every 5mins... pretty sure thats not supposed to happen and also when the apex shuts the carbondoser off it still lets bubbles go through for over 2-3 mins... Im just baffled and overwhelmed... I dont have alot of coral... maybe 20 sps frags... a few jawbreaker and other mushrooms... a couple anenomes, and maybe 40-60 soft coral frags... I have corraline algae everywhere... and its about a 300 gallon system... I went from 8.0 alk to about 7.7 in about 2-3 days... just trying to give you as much info as possible... thanks Randy... I really do appreciate your reply... I am hoping I can get somewhere with this reactor... Ive seriously been messing with it for over 1 1/2 now... just dont know what to do anymore

Randy Holmes-Farley · Apr 28, 2019

There’s no simple way to predict the alk at a given pH. pH 6.7 is fairly high and the alk would be higher if you dropped the pH more.

The whole process should be trial and error, with the goal to get stable tank alk. You only need a teeny bit of more alk each day. I’d either add a little more CO2 (lower pH) or increase the flow rate at the same pH.

PerplexyHexy · Apr 28, 2019

Randy Holmes-Farley said:
There’s no simple way to predict the alk at a given pH. pH 6.7 is fairly high and the alk would be higher if you dropped the pH more.

The whole process should be trial and error, with the goal to get stable tank alk. You only need a teeny bit of more alk each day. I’d either add a little more CO2 (lower pH) or increase the flow rate at the same pH.

Changed setting on apex to hold at 6.6 ph and left 5ml/min... see what that does when I get home from work tonight

Randy Holmes-Farley · Apr 28, 2019

Sounds good. [emoji3]

Snoopy 67 · Apr 28, 2019

I also pull my water from the 2nd chamber to the sump.
My Carbon Doser is set@ 6 PSI & a bubble every 9 seconds.
This however does not correlate with bubble count through the bubble counter.
As long as it's NOT 2 bubbles a second or more I care not.
I do not run the Kamoer fast I run slow with between 1-2 drops/ second & have no complaints except I need a bigger reactor.
I have found a clogged intake line once so check to make sure it is clear.

PerplexyHexy · Apr 28, 2019

Snoopy 67 said:
I also pull my water from the 2nd chamber to the sump.
My Carbon Doser is set@ 6 PSI & a bubble every 9 seconds.
This however does not correlate with bubble count through the bubble counter.
As long as it's NOT 2 bubbles a second or more I care not.
I do not run the Kamoer fast I run slow with between 1-2 drops/ second & have no complaints except I need a bigger reactor.
I have found a clogged intake line once so check to make sure it is clear.

Whats the point of having the carbondoser if the dial for bubbles per second doesn’t correlate with what your looking for? Could have got the samething from a well built dual stage regulator... The reason I bought carbondoser was to have easy plug and play... just be able to select the bubble rate and boom... so far... I hate it

Snoopy 67 · Apr 29, 2019

They claim it's better when the bottle runs low on gas, it doesn't dump it all @ once ??

PerplexyHexy · Apr 29, 2019

Well... it hasnt worked well for me... BRS wants me to return it so they can check it out, but then I have no regulator... so I dont know what to do

PerplexyHexy · Apr 29, 2019

Spoke with aquariumplants.com which I should have done in the first place... super nice... supposedly sending me a new one today so I can get that badboy back up and running... Thats if it all goes the way they told me... hopefully thats true