Ca Reactor media and side effects..

[DJ88]

Found an interesting thread on RC today. One that has me wondering as well. If my bryopsis problem could be due to my reactor media.

WHo here uses what media in their reactors and have you noticed an increase in any type of algae growth. Specifically hair or bryopsis....

Please let me be wrong about this. I love running my reactor effluent at 7.0 - 7.1.

all thoughts/input are welcome.

One thing I have noticed with really close inspection of my media is that it looks like it is more than crushed coral. I swear there are shells and such in there. Or at least parts of shells. Do mollusk shells not contain phosphates? I rememebr a LFS owner saying crushed oyster shells were the way to go for a substrate and finding out somehow that they held phospahtes in them... Christy?? Do you do much in this area? Mollusks and shell fish I mean.

Here is the thread.

RC thread

[ 12 June 2002, 19:38: Message edited by: DJ88 ]