Why is my ozone reactor brown ?

[Brokecoloadoreefer]

Is this normal ??

 

[Pistondog]

I dose ozone thru my skimmer, which is pulling organics, brown stuff.
How's your reactor different from a skimmer?

 

[Jon Fishman]

How long has it been running? Mine has been running for almost a year, not really brown at all

 

[ca1ore]

Believe it’s a chemical reaction between the ozone and the acrylic. Somebody explained it to me years ago but I forget the details. Salient point was not something to worry about. Curious why you bother with ozone. I mothballed my sanders ozonizers 20 years ago and never looked back.

 

[Brokecoloadoreefer]

Believe it’s a chemical reaction between the ozone and the acrylic. Somebody explained it to me years ago but I forget the details. Salient point was not something to worry about. Curious why you bother with ozone. I mothballed my sanders ozonizers 20 years ago and never looked back.

I’m old school. It makes me feel good

I just like reactors/ complication. I have always in the past run ozone so this run I’m running ozone too. I have never seen this brown film before though

 

[Brokecoloadoreefer]

How long has it been running? Mine has been running for almost a year, not really brown at all

This has been up a few days

 

[Brokecoloadoreefer]

I dose ozone thru my skimmer, which is pulling organics, brown stuff.
How's your reactor different from a skimmer?

Well it doesn’t rally skim and it has a much bigger reaction chamber. I always ran my o3 through a skimmer in the past, but I spent a good amount on a new skimmer so I decided to run a seperate reactor to keep my new skimmer in shape

 

[FlyPenFly]

You can always just use an old skimmer to run ozone if you don’t want to make your own reactor.

 

[Brokecoloadoreefer]

You can always just use an old skimmer to run ozone if you don’t want to make your own reactor.

yes but why is my reactor baby poop brown?

 

[Brokecoloadoreefer]

I mean check out the skimmer in the background for contrast

 

[Brokecoloadoreefer]

I mean check out the skimmer in the background for contrast

 

[FlyPenFly]

Maybe it's whatever dissolved organics staining the acrylic? What dosage are you using on the ozone?

 

[Brokecoloadoreefer]

Maybe it's whatever dissolved organics staining the acrylic? What dosage are you using on the ozone?

Yea it’s just weird. I’m running 200 mg.

 

[WVNed]

That is the color of stuff treated with ozone. The question would be does it clean off. My skimmer has large patches that color in it from ozone. It is also the color airline tubing gets when affected by ozone as the plastic degrades.

 

[Jon Fishman]

That fast though? You sure it’s setup right ?

 

[Brokecoloadoreefer]

That is the color of stuff treated with ozone. The question would be does it clean off. My skimmer has large patches that color in it from ozone. It is also the color airline tubing gets when affected by ozone as the plastic degrades.

The ozone tubing is already that color too. I will see if it wipes off. Thank you !

 

[Brokecoloadoreefer]

That fast though? You sure it’s setup right ?

Pretty sure it’s set up per spec