Anyone using Korallin CA reactor?

[aravindk]

Would you be kind enough to post pictures of the reactor connected with your sump? I am planning to set one up and the instructions that I got so far are somewhat confusing to me.

Thanks in advance.

[aravindk]

Pl. let me know if my connections are correct. A - Water inlet; B - Water outlet back to the sump. D - from the Co2 pump.

My question is what is the outlet #2 (marked as C) used for? It has a little tube with pinch valve at the end. How should I use it?

[aravindk]

Sorry here is the image:

[IMG] http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/...20korallin.jpg[/IMG]

[aravindk]

Bump

[dmilne85]

i have a korallin reactor and the directions are not the best. some guy on here posted some great instructions on how to set them up. his name is dragonslayer, or something along the lines of that, if you want to search for it. i dont remember what parts were "a,b,c" connections" but once you set it up i recommend getting a feed pump, instead of running a gravity siphon into the reactor. im still playing with the best way to feed water into the reactor, i have the aqualifter pump that was recomended for it but it slowly clogs and changes the effluent flow.

[dmilne85]

just looked at the link. the outlet #2, or C is a second effluent line that water can come out of. the pinch valve adjust how much effluent will come out of it. i recommend runing a very slow drip out of the C line(5-10 drops per min) and then have your main effluent line drip at whatever rate that is needed to keep up with your tank demands. having the "C" line prevents co2 building up at teh top of the reactor, which you will notice when you are trying to get it set up correctly.

hope that makes sense, i was very confused setting up my reactor also. goodluck!

[schneijt]

Originally posted by dmilne85
i have a korallin reactor and the directions are not the best. some guy on here posted some great instructions on how to set them up. his name is dragonslayer, or something along the lines of that, if you want to search for it. i dont remember what parts were "a,b,c" connections" but once you set it up i recommend getting a feed pump, instead of running a gravity siphon into the reactor. im still playing with the best way to feed water into the reactor, i have the aqualifter pump that was recomended for it but it slowly clogs and changes the effluent flow.

Attached is the file he's talking about. I saved it to my hard drive a year ago when I was contemplating a korallin reactor for my sps tank. Hope it helps you.

-Joe

[aravindk]

Thanks for the document. It really helps.

Now that you have the input to the reactor plumbed in you need to install the output from the reactor back to the tank or sump. There are two output lines (both have a gate valve on them) one comes directly from the top of the reactor (called outlet #1 and marked ‘Ausgang’) and the other comes from the fitting just after where the pump output ties into the reactor (there is a single fitting here with a gate valve attached this is outlet #2 marked ‘Entluftung’). You need to hook a ¼� airline up to outlet #2 and run it to where ever you have the ‘famous effluent drip cup’ installed. The preferred place for the drip cup is so it can allow effluent to drip into a high flow area of the tank or sump. I personally prefer it to drip into my skimmer compartment of the sump. You also need to have the cup where you can easily get to it for taking effluent samples for testing of dKH and also you’ll want to be able to get your PH probe into the cup for testing of the PH.

This is the part I dont understand. To me, it looks like both #1 and #2 goes to sump. Is that correct?

[dmilne85]

thats correct, they both drip into the sump