Neat observation about my new system and reactor

[Canadian Man]

Just a tidbit for you all to ponder.

So on my old 90g with 75g sump aprox 140g total watervolume I ran my very large reactor. The setting's were aprox 45ml/min of water output and about 80 bpm of Co2. These setting's kept up with the demands of the tank and I did not add anything as far as additives go to the tank.

The new system (as most of you know) is a 230g tank, 100g sump and 75g refugium. Now when I swapped over the corals and equip and such I just plugged the reactor in and used the same settting's it was set to as the coral load has not increased just water volume. When I tested my alk and Calcium they dropped substantially over a few day's. the alk was dropping 1.0meq/l a day with the old reactor setting's

I am still adjusting the reactor but I now have it set to about 75ml/min of output water and about 160 bpm of co2.

I think it's very intresting results considering that the coral load has remained the same. My coraline is actually growing now that I am using a diffrent lighting setup than just Iwasaki's. In the other tank I just had coraline on the bottom of rock's so it was not outstanding like it seem's to be in the new tank.

Anyway, my reactor uses a 26" tall by 6" reactor tube and easily hold's 2 container's of ARM, so 16 lbs of media. In the past 3.5 month's it's dissolved aprox 5 inches of media in the chamber.

Cheers