Calcium Reactor

Canadian Man · #7 11-20-2003, 05:51 PM

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Originally Posted by StirCrazy

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Originally Posted by Canadian Man

My recent contraption is a copy of DJ88's reactor design. He has posted it on here a while back and on RC as well. Mine is just MUCH BIGGER

It's the Square design that I'm sure if you have done some research you have come across it on here or RC.

cheers

now that you have run both does it maintain you levels any better than the last? or was it simpaly cheeper to build as you didn;t have to buy tubing?

Steve

It seems to be keeping the levels up a bit easier Steve. I assume this is because of over double the media capacity as well as the design.
I am currently running at a co2 rate of 140 bpm and 60ml/min of output. Reactor ph is 6.75.

I think at the size I built this thing it actually works out to be more expensive if I had to buy all the pieces. The top flange is so huge that it takes a large piece of Thick acrylic. Tony and I actually did out lower part of the flange in 4 separate pieces which worked well.

The only reason this was cheep for me to build is because I got the body acrylic for the reactor from my shop from an old store display