Advice? Alkalinity levels are high

if u need some help army dog give me a call..mine runs at 6.60ph in the reactor and 8.34 in the tank but i have the air pump outside to draw in fresh air into the skimmer. u know my number

 

Yeah stop chasing the ph man. As long as the swing stays between 7.8 to 8.5 your good to go.

Are you dripping your reactor effluent in a highly oxygenated area? Like near the down tube in to sump or skimmer? This will help drive off the excess co2 thereby reducing the effects of H2CO3 aka carbonic acid to your ph.

 

I am far from experienced with calcium reactors but can you add another chamber to reactor to help with the co2. I could be wrong, but just throwing that out there.

 

Yes a second chamber will help.

 

Much better Donny.

 

Do you have the 1502? What media are you using? A second chamber will help raise your effluent pH, I think you can buy one, but I am cheap so I just filled up a tall glass vase and filled it with media and dumped the output of the reactor to that.

It was a little ghetto looking but it worked. At the end of the day I don't think it was even necessary.