Ozone discussion here

He probably did tell me that stuff. But then again I was so in awe of actually talking to 'the Michael Jordan of Reefkeeping' (as I told my girlfriend) that I didn't HEAR him. (That is why I wanted to email him as well)

I first heard to monitor my ORP from you my friend. (This ORP controller is news to me)

I've been researching this more and I will need to drop about $250 beyond the cheap ozone generator to do this right. (ORP probe, controller, air dryer, deccasssent, extra deccassent) I'm going to go for it I think. This winter is all about water quality for me.

 

I am days away from being ready to go. I can now measure ORP. I have the Ozonator generator, air dryer, etc. It is all hooked up. I am just waiting on Avast to send me a new Ozone reactor and I will have news to report. You can see their new reactor over at reefbuilders. I was going to go with the one from Precision Marine but decided against it once I got ahold of Justin Casp at Avast and he talked me into getting their new reactor.

 

I bought the ozonator poseidon (BRS) and ozonoator air dryer. Kinda spendy but after much research it seems this is the best brand you can buy for many reasons.

I am kinda surprised that BRS started selling the Enaly brand of ozone generator. Enaly is Chinese and I quit buying Chinese electronics a long time ago (if possible).

 

I have had the ozone system up and running for about two months now. The system consists of a posidon jr ozone generator, luft air pump, ozone air dryer, avast ozone reactor, avast carbon scrubber, and Mag 5 pump. Quite an extensive and expensive system for sure.

Overall I am happy with how it is going. My water is always crystal clear.....always. That is the big upside.

I monitor ORP and that seems to go real well. The apex shuts the ozone system on and off accordingly. I don't know what else to say about it. If you have any questions feel free to ask.

 

I've been up and running for just under a year. 




There doesn't really seem to be a decrease in algae on the glass.......I think that is more a problem with me overfeeding.




My water clarity is another issue. It is ALWAYS like glass. It looks like my fish are floating on air. It basically looks like your tank looks when you put in a fresh batch of carbon or run a polishing wheel on a canister filter. Crystal.




The skimmate did reduce some for sure. I only have to clean my collection cups every couple weeks. I added a skimmate locker at the same time. The locker mostly catches runoff water from when my skimmers temporarily go nuts and overflow their cups. It also shuts them down.




I run the ozone like this: luft air pump pushing air to an air dryer with dessicant inside. The dry air continues to my ozone generator. The ozone rich air is then fed via a venturi into an ozone reactor, where it is combined with tank water. It leaves the reactor, and enters a carbon scrubber (carbon reactor). Finally, the ozone rich and carbon scrubbed water enters directly into my sump. It never sees the skimmer. And my plastic/acrylic all seem unaffected.




What else? Oh, my ORP probe contols when the ozone goes off and on. I shut it off at 390 ORP and turn it on when it is under 360. I have only had it creep into the 400's, and a water change brings it all back down. 




I don't run biopellets.....I bought a nitrate reactor (sulphur reactor) a few years back and it just runs flawlessly so I have seen no reason to switch to the bio pellets really.




ozone generator







air dryer







ozone reactor...I have the big one on the left











carbon scrubber