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Reactor Feed Pump
So what does everyone use to feed your reactor. We were using a mini-jet for almost two years, but it seems to have crapped out.
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I use a quiet one 100 to feed my phosban reactor, a maxi jet 400 to feed 1 calcium reactor, and gravity to feed the other.
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I always used the little pumps that came in the salt buckets. Still have a couple of them. One fed kalk from a pail to an electronic float switch for years & still werks well.
I found them to push just enough to feed a reactor. When I used a larger Hagen 301, I had a bleed outlet on it.
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My CA reactor is fed off a line tapped into the return pump. I have a Phosban reactor to setup, and plan to do the same thing for it. Less stuff to keep running that way. Just use a ball valve to control the flow rate.
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I retired and got a fixed income but it's broke. Ed _______________________________________ 50 gallon FOWLR, 10 gallon sump. 130 gallon reef, 20 gallon sump, 10 gallon refugium. 10 gallon quarantine. 60 gallon winter tank for pond fish. 300 gallon pond with waterfall. |
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Nowadays I just use minijets to feed my reactors and a needle valve on the effluent. The minijets don't put out so much pressure to worry me, they're inexpensive (and who doesn't have a half dozen of them lying around anyhow, finally a way to use them up!!). I thought about a peristaltic pump for a reactor feed maybe, but it looks like you can't really control the speed of those (they're either on or off) -- at least the one I tried didn't have variable flowrate control. If you really wanted to get funky, how about a dosing pump? Hey, didn't you buy Chad's dosing pump there Deb?
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I just use gravity. Never had a pump on the reactor. Hummm, now you got me thinking
J |