HELP! CA Reactor Advice

[JurisHP]

Dear Group:


I have read almost every post regarding CA Reactors, and was hoping you could be of help with mine, which is a Aquamaxx C-tech T-2, which is being fed by an APT peristaltic pump. First of all, for the life of me, I cannot get the air bubbles at the top to go away.

The MAIN reason I am reaching-out is because I cannot seem to get the pH level of my aquarium down below 8.93.

Right now, my reading are as follows:

System pH: 8.93
Reactor pH: 6.51.

My settings in Fusion are as follows:

Fallback: OFF
Set OFF
If Car_pH > 6.50 then ON
If Sys_pH < 7.85 then OFF

I have an Aquariumplants Carbon Doser (electronic), which is set as follows:

BBM: dial is set at 8.5
Pressure is at 10 psi

I do regular water changes.


Any suggestions?

 

[DaveK]

A few questions...
How large is the tank?
How long has it been set up?
What livestock, especially corals, do you have in the tank.
How do you have each pipe or tube to the Ca reactor and the CO2 tank connected? (And I do mean each and every connection.

A few notes...
Ca reactors are not usually a problem as far as pH goes. You might not have it correctly connected upp or you may not be running it correctly.
Make sure you really need a Ca reactor. You usually only need one because you have a lot of SPS corals and/or clams that are really depleting Ca from the system.