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Thales

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Balling, dosing, CaRx, etc are all just different ways to do the same thing. They all have pros and cons, and they all have people who love them and hate them. Often when someone bashes a method, it is generally because they had a bad experience with it which doesn't mean the method is inherently flawed. For every big baller that doesn't run a CaRx on R2R, I can find you one that does on a different forum. There are a million ways to successfully skin a reef.

I have run all different ways and tend to like reactors because I find them easier to set and forget, tune, and cheaper over the long term. This is especially true for larger systems. On my 300 at home I sadly moved from Bionic dosing because it just got too expensive. IMO, the most important pieces of kit in a CaRx set up is an adjustable peristaltic pump for feeding the reactor as needle valves or other ways of controlling the input to the reactor tend to clog with particulate and need adjusting often.
 

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Oh, and CaRx produce plenty of alkalinity. In fact, I dial in my Ca reactors based on the alk reading of the effluent, and adjust the reactor based on the alk reading of the tank.
 
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Has anyone here actually answered Ducati's question?
Does anyone dose large systems?
Being that his system is 400++ gallons and going with sps ect.
I have not heard from one person who has a system that large chime in yet.

Ducati. You will have to weed out the pros and cons I guess. I remember coming by your place a while ago. U had the mrc reactor sitting there which was way to small for that system. We talked a little about it. If u wanna setup a reactor , let me know. I'll give u a hand.

I think im most def going to get a calc reactor.... Probably a month away or so.. I know mine is way too small.. I here the mtc ones are great.. and i'd love to have failsafe approach on it as well.. i'll def need some help..
thank you
 

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Has anyone here actually answered Ducati's question?
Does anyone dose large systems?
Being that his system is 400++ gallons and going with sps ect.
I have not heard from one person who has a system that large chime in yet.

Ducati. You will have to weed out the pros and cons I guess. I remember coming by your place a while ago. U had the mrc reactor sitting there which was way to small for that system. We talked a little about it. If u wanna setup a reactor , let me know. I'll give u a hand.

I did answer. I dose and the volume is 600 gallons.
 

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I agree with Tomanyfrags . If you go on reef2reef, were the big baller of sps are, no one there uses a cal reactor at all every one uses a doser. Think of it like this if your not home and the co2 stop working , or the tubes get clouged , will your reactor shut it self down ???? . The answer is no it wont and most likely cause a tank crash, as if the dosing pump get clouged or somthing it shuts it self down untill its fixed...

I'm not sure what qualifies one as a "big baller of sps", but anyone with a tank larger than 100g is probably using a reactor.
 

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