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Jaws 04-23-2015 06:32 AM

Anyone use an AquaCare Calcium Reactor?
 
Love to pick your brain for a few minutes. Thanks.

Aquattro 04-23-2015 01:20 PM

JJ knows all about them. :)

Dana uses one too, I think she actually got it to work. No idea how -lol

Taipan 04-23-2015 02:00 PM

Subscribed. I'm following along. These are supposed to be the "unicorn" of calcium reactors. However; I have yet to understand how it actually works. No one has been able to actually explain it to my feeble mind. I've read the instructions in (English and German) and was intimidated. :redface:

albert_dao 04-23-2015 04:05 PM

They're like a normal ca reactor. They are just optimized to dissolve a synthetic media instead of crushed coral.

Taipan 04-23-2015 04:11 PM

Is synthetic media mandatory or optional for this setup?

Aquattro 04-23-2015 04:12 PM

Hope it's optional, because many of the people I know using them are using regular media :)
My one friend spent a month trying to figure it out, doesn't sound like a regular reactor at all :)

albert_dao 04-23-2015 05:14 PM

It is though... Just follow the tubes, it's pretty similar to a normal one - it just has an exotic layout.

Aquattro 04-23-2015 05:23 PM

Is there not some filling and purging of a chamber for air or CO2, and pumps on timers and stuff?
Japarto swears by them and seems to think they're simple, but I'll stick the basic down flow PM design I have :)

Taipan 04-23-2015 05:35 PM

I think AquaCare has designed a CO2 regulator for it as well. In a complete setup; I think it counts the bubbles as well. I have no idea what I'm talking about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am8mbOeKBzE


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