How do YOU control your calcium reactor?
 

Looking for information from people who use calcium reactors.

How do you control your calcium reactor?

1. Manual adjusting of the bubble count and drip rate to get desired calcium and alk levels
2. Ph controller hooked up to display tank
3. Ph controller hooked up to effluent from reactor
4. Other method

Basically I want to setup my calcium reactor and am looking for what people have done and tried and found successfull. I currently do not have a Ph controller but would invest in one if it makes maintenance easier, because I am a big fan of low manual maintenance.

I haven't done this yet... but plan on doing the following with the ReefKeeper 2 controller

1. I have my Kalk reactor turn on when ph goes below 8.2 and turn off once it hits 8.4

2. Have my Calcium reactor go on whe PH is 8.4 and off when it is below 8.2 (when i get one)

This way I can maintain my ph at a steady 8.2 - 8.3... I'll need to get the reactor dialed in manually at first i guess.

Manually, but I hope to someday afford a controller to handle it for me.

And how would you set the controller up? To controll the Ph of effluent or of the display tank?

I do method one...one day it'll be automated...I hope.

Cal reactor setup
 

I used to control it manually, but I cant stand sitting there and counting bubbles all the time. So now I use a pH probe in the effluent and set the controller to 6.5 to 6.7, then adjust effluent flow up or down as necessary. Only took a couple days to tune this way.

Manual control for me.

This is what I have been leading towards. Why do you need a Ph probe and controller though?

Manual.

I use a controller to turn my CO2 solenoid on and off. The cheapest I found for continuous monitoring cost $110. For $10 more, I got the controller.