Low pH issues?? Make your own CO2 scrubber!!

[120reefkeeper]

You ever try adding some wooden air stones to your sump ?? You could also put one near the intake of your skimmer to help turbo charge it.

 

[JonasRoman]

My low is 7.6 high 8.01 WITH scrubber and open doors :-(

My first question is then if your skimmer is big enough? If you will have maximal effect of the scrubber you must have a quite big skimmer, thus, a lot of air/h through the divesorb-bed. A small skimmer will not take out the advantage of the divesorb bed.

 

[JonasRoman]

Apex and Red Sea. Confirmed. Plenty of surface shot and reef Octo skimmer in sump. It's irritating.

How many litres air/hour do the skimmer draw? and how big is the aquarium?

 

[TheZachariah]

Awesome info! I have been brainstorming about how to go about this so this worked out perfectly!

 

[FishGuyBri]

How many litres air/hour do the skimmer draw? and how big is the aquarium?

90 gallon and I have no clue liters/hour air draw. How would I know? I know it's huge and skins perfectly...

 

[FishGuyBri]

It's a fight to go above 7.9 with scrubber.

 

[Reef man 89]

Awesome write up thank for sharing, this is why I luv r2r everyone shares good ideas

 

[120reefkeeper]

Awesome write up thank for sharing, this is why I luv r2r everyone shares good ideas

Your very welcome! Happy reefing! [emoji4]

 

[Ty Hamatake]

Where did you get your soda lime? I just ran through a cartridge of Two Little Fishies media in about eight days. I have some BRS media coming in soon, and hopefully it last longer (I turned down the air intake to the skimmer so hopefully that helps a little), but even if it lasts twice as long that'll still get expensive over time. Googling "soda lime" didn't bring up many options for me...

 

[120reefkeeper]

Where did you get your soda lime? I just ran through a cartridge of Two Little Fishies media in about eight days. I have some BRS media coming in soon, and hopefully it last longer (I turned down the air intake to the skimmer so hopefully that helps a little), but even if it lasts twice as long that'll still get expensive over time. Googling "soda lime" didn't bring up many options for me...

I got mine from Airgas. They are a welding supply company and they also have a medical division.

I went to my local Airgas retail welding store and inquired about it.

 

[olaggie01]

Wow, that's crazy low pH with a scrubber. Mine is 8.3 with a scrubber. Alk usage has definitely increased.

 

[120reefkeeper]

You can also find it here and have it shipped to your house.

http://www.aaawholesalecompany.com/pur-120030-ct.html



http://www.aaawholesalecompany.com/pur-120020-ea.html

Two different options..... 3 lbs bags or 5 gallon pail.

 

[Ty Hamatake]

You have potentially saved me many pennies. Thank you, sir.

 

[120reefkeeper]

You have potentially saved me many pennies. Thank you, sir.

I hope so!

Your very welcome! Happy reefing!

 

[BlackLabelCorals]

Anyone have the AirGas number to search? My local AirGas can order some with a part number but I've used everything I could find on the AirGas website to try and search it but I don't get anything to pop up.

 

[revhtree]

Nice thread that I haven't seen!

 

[120reefkeeper]

Nice thread that I haven't seen!

Thanks [emoji6]

 

[Mindi]

this is creepy...exactly my experience including the hole in the wall with silatic around the Polytube. Starting on a scrubber right away My winter 7.9 bugs me. Thanks for the great post.

 

[120reefkeeper]

this is creepy...exactly my experience including the hole in the wall with silatic around the Polytube. Starting on a scrubber right away My winter 7.9 bugs me. Thanks for the great post.

Your very welcome. [emoji4]

 

[Mindi]

Am I interpreting you correctly..? you seem to be suggesting that the airpump device is more effective than the skimmer scrubbing, or am I reading something into it that isnt there..? I may be doing that as I am sceptical about the aeration effect of skimmers.