Which reactor should I run?

YHSublime · Jul 7, 2014

I'm getting ready for carbon and Gfo, tank is 150 gallons, 20 gal frag plumbed in, and a 40 gal sump.

What reactors should I use? Never used one before, want a good, fair priced, reliable brand.

YHSublime · Jul 8, 2014

Nobody running a reactor they are crazy about?

joekool · Jul 8, 2014

I use the BRS dual reactor it works great and you can plumb it from your return pump or by the little pump which they sell for it. It works good too. If you carbon dose it will clog up any reactor with bacterial slim so don't do both at same time.

joekool · Jul 8, 2014

It's some were in my tank thread if you want to see it.

YHSublime · Jul 9, 2014

joekool said:
I use the BRS dual reactor it works great and you can plumb it from your return pump or by the little pump which they sell for it. It works good too. If you carbon dose it will clog up any reactor with bacterial slim so don't do both at same time.

Thanks!

sromero287 · Jul 9, 2014

I have a 35 gallon shallow water tank with a 20 gal sump refugium with a skimmer Vortex Omega 130 and two small innovative marine reactors, one gfo and the second with carbon Rox 0.08 from BRS. I am dosing Ca, Alk and Mag with my bubble magus doser. Everything is perfect except for wknds, left the tank alone on friday evening and got back on monday morning, yesterday was the third time i found the reactors media totally compacted and clogged. Then the whole tank with like a sticky film on the glass and all over. Corals and fishes perfectly ok, but i have clean everything, water change 8% and change rhe gfo and carbon, WHY IS THAT HAPPENING?????, my media got compacted and clogged, in BRS the recommend to xhange the media at least three weeks on carbon and 45 days on gfo.
PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!!

dson78 · Jul 9, 2014

I would recommend NextReef MR1 Reactors.

joekool · Jul 9, 2014

sromero287 said:
I have a 35 gallon shallow water tank with a 20 gal sump refugium with a skimmer Vortex Omega 130 and two small innovative marine reactors, one gfo and the second with carbon Rox 0.08 from BRS. I am dosing Ca, Alk and Mag with my bubble magus doser. Everything is perfect except for wknds, left the tank alone on friday evening and got back on monday morning, yesterday was the third time i found the reactors media totally compacted and clogged. Then the whole tank with like a sticky film on the glass and all over. Corals and fishes perfectly ok, but i have clean everything, water change 8% and change rhe gfo and carbon, WHY IS THAT HAPPENING?????, my media got compacted and clogged, in BRS the recommend to xhange the media at least three weeks on carbon and 45 days on gfo.
PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!!

This is for another forum placed this in another thread of your own and you will get some help. I don't want to hijack this thread by talking about it on here.
I will quickly give you an answer but if you need more help start a new thread. If you are carbon dosing than you will get bacterial buildup in your reactors. Or you may be filling it up with dittrus from your sump or something.