New reef in the works, 225g

[Dave C]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

Why put the calcium reactor on a controller though? I'd just have the thing run all the time. Otherwise you'd also have to have a CO2 controller on the reactor (I'm guessing you probably already have this) but what's going to happen is that it will just be constantly cycling on and off whereas usually it's pretty easy to dial it into a steady-state operation. I don't mean to dissuade you out of buying toys if you really want to buy them but I'm just thinking that this is one you don't really *really* need if you know what I mean?

I've been warned by the Deltec folks not to run this reactor 24/7, let alone run it without a controller. But I do have a solenoid on the co2 regulator and since I have an Aquatronica controller it only makes sense to control the solenoid. I figure I can get by without constantly cycling it by increasing the delta parameters i.e. turn it on when pH exceeds 6.5, turn it off when it drops below 6.1. That should take care of it.