I have a few questions regarding a calcium reactor set up and equipment. I'm sure I'll have others down the road, so I figured I'd make a thread that may possibly help others as well as myself.
1st question has to do with the water line feeding the reactor.
I do not have a inline manifold on my return. The water line that feeds my reactor is 1/4" mur-loc tubing. I would like to run an individual water pump to feed the cal reactor.
After looking all over, all I have found info wise is hobbiest running some sort of peralistic dosing pump to feed there reactor. I also seen a quick mention of an individual water pump being able to be used with cal reactors in 52 weeks of reefing videos, but no mention of what pumps or required flow rates.
What individual water pumps can I use and convert the output to 1/4" mur-loc output?
Is using a dosing style pump better?
How much flow is required to feed the reactor?
2nd question, media.
Before using media in the reactor, rinsing is required. Is tap water okay to rinse the media or should I use tank water from water change? Or would it be okay to rinse in tap, then again after in tank water. I'm just concerned about chlorine from the tap water jacking up the media. I'm guessing ro/di is okay as well but I dont want to have to make 10g just to waste it on rinsing media.
3rd question.
Kalkwasser in ato to keep ph elevated between 7.8 and 8.3<-- preferred, during use of a calcium reactor. Is this required? If running a ph controller, is this even necessary? Can anyone comment on this, help me understand it a bit more.
If these are all stupid questions, my apologies in advance. I have never run a calcium reactor before. I have been reading up and wanting one for a while now, just was not sure if my system was even big enough to consider one over simple dosing.
Well I picked one up at a great price, extra equipment needed is on order and I would like to set this up instead of letting it sit in a box. I hope hobbiest with calcium reactors can chime in and help me out with my noob questions to allow me to set one up successfully. Thanks everyone.