Ozone?

Tom R · #1 10-28-2007, 06:50 PM

Hi Brad

I run 3 cups of carbon in a micro mesh bag. I change out the carbon monthly. Running carbon is one of the ZEOvit requirements. I have not looked into the use of OZONE on a system running ZEOvit. I know Chin Lee has always run OZONE so you should contact him.

Tom R

Chin_Lee · #2 10-28-2007, 07:37 PM

i run ozone through my beckett skimmer. Its controlled by milwaukee ORP controller and I set mine around 420. I dont' run carbon for the ozone because my skimmer outputs to a separate chamber before overflowing into an area that is inhabited by animals. Ozone is supposed to be so unstable if it gets injected into a skimmer, there is really no possiblity that it will come out of the skimmer without the extra oxygen particle getting knocked off.
Ozone will make extruded plastic brittle in no time. I used to inject the ozone through a john guest fitting and within a week or two, that fitting will break if I apply any pressure to it.
Delbeek also spoke highly of it when talking about the equipment used in the Waikiki aquarium.

fishface · #3 10-28-2007, 07:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tom R

I have not looked into the use of OZONE on a system running ZEOvit. I know

ozone and zeovit should not be run together, ozone tends to interfere with the bacterial process you're trying to archive with the zeoit.

untamed · #4 10-28-2007, 11:13 PM

Whew!!! There's my weekend reading completed. (don't you just LOVE reading Holmes-Farley's stuff...sometimes I print it and just read it over and over until it finally gets through to me)

Thanks for the informative links.

Tom R · #5 10-29-2007, 03:32 AM

Hi Brad

This looks like a good deal if you are thinking OZONE.

http://216.187.96.54/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=36687

Tom R

untamed · #6 10-29-2007, 05:16 AM

Thanks...yes, I saw that advertisement. I will be wanting my Aquatronica to be controlling the ozone, so I don't really need the controller portion of what he is selling, and that accounts for a lot of his asking price.

I also have to give a lot of thought to how I'm going to work it into the system. I'm kind of liking Holmes-Farley's tubing reactor, but I need time to figure it all out.