running ozone to skimmer (safety question)

Canarygirl · 09/06/2009, 10:00 PM

Hi all

I have an opportunity to set up ozone and run it through my skimmer (Bubbleking, and supposedly okay for ozone), but my skimmer is in an enclosed "fish room" off of my garage, the room is about 12' x 4.5' in dimension. I'm concerned about the ozonated air contaminating the room...I have no sense of smell so I wouldn't be able to tell if it smelled like ozone. This room has my sumps, refugium, and frag tank in it as well. It has one vent in the lower wall, and in the upper corner, a bathroom-style vented fan that blows out to the garage.

Do you think it would provide enough safety to just keep a large mesh bag with a couple inches of carbon on top of my skimmer lid? That's all I would be able to do, unless I spring for extra $$ to buy the reactor chamber and carbon chamber for air coming out of that chamber.

I am a little bit nervous about this whole thing after reading the DIY article (prolonged exposure to ozone at .08ppm causes premature death in humans....)

09/06/2009, 10:00 PM	#1
Canarygirl Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Pacific Northwest Posts: 1,789	running ozone to skimmer (safety question) Hi all I have an opportunity to set up ozone and run it through my skimmer (Bubbleking, and supposedly okay for ozone), but my skimmer is in an enclosed "fish room" off of my garage, the room is about 12' x 4.5' in dimension. I'm concerned about the ozonated air contaminating the room...I have no sense of smell so I wouldn't be able to tell if it smelled like ozone. This room has my sumps, refugium, and frag tank in it as well. It has one vent in the lower wall, and in the upper corner, a bathroom-style vented fan that blows out to the garage. Do you think it would provide enough safety to just keep a large mesh bag with a couple inches of carbon on top of my skimmer lid? That's all I would be able to do, unless I spring for extra $$ to buy the reactor chamber and carbon chamber for air coming out of that chamber. I am a little bit nervous about this whole thing after reading the DIY article (prolonged exposure to ozone at .08ppm causes premature death in humans....)