calcium reactor

[eric gregory]

hello new to this board but not to reef keeping. I live in gainesville florida and want to know is it possible to have a calcium reactor to big for a tank? my tank is 230 gallons and i currently use a k2r reactor which is running fine but i came across a professionaly built reactor that can handle a 2000gal system. the reactor chambor is 10 inches in diameter and 2 feet tall all clear acrylic with unions and gate valves and pump for 75.00 dollars. the people that had it didn't know it's value or how to use it!!. but i do haha! anyhow do think it's too big for a 230 the tank is completly for sps.

 

[James Thomas]

Can't be too big as long as it fits in the sump alright and you don't mind paying the electricity for the larger pump. You basically will just have to use much less CO2 than it was designed for. If you do't want it...let me know!!!

 

[eric gregory]

the larger will not be a problem it's only a 650gph. the question that i had was about putting to much 6.5ph water into the tank? will the alk even out that much low ph to maintain an overall ph of 8.3?

 

[eric gregory]

come on guys and gals anybody got any ideas?

 

[sillingw]

I don't think you will have any problems as long as it physically has somewhere to reside, as James Thomas said, all you will have to do is dial down the co2 or up the water flow, I wouldn't worry about the effluent, just test your water and make sure alk/calc/PH are all ok - think of it this way, people use single stage reactors which are fine and then double up to a two stage which is more efficient on the use of co2 - your just going bigger still = more efficent.