Increasing Ph of water from sulfur reactor outlet

Happygolucktroy · 09/18/2012, 07:53 PM

Anyone have any ideas as to a permanent way I can increase the ph of water dripping from my sulfur reactor before it makes it's way into the tank?

bertoni · 09/18/2012, 08:56 PM

There's probably no need, but you could drip it near the input of the skimmer, and let the skimmer outgas any carbon dioxide that's lowering the pH.

dan-in-gr · 09/19/2012, 03:29 AM

Hi, I just picked up a dual chamber reactor that I am building into a sulfur reactor, the first chamber is sulfur beads and the second will be aragonite only (Reborn), I am hoping with a large second chamber that I can stabilize my pH a bit. Will find out in two weeks when I get my project complete.

EnderG60 · 09/19/2012, 07:56 AM

Oddly when I used a second chamber of aragonite on mine after a few weeks I started getting gunk building up in the second chamber which was causing nitrates.

I took it off and never looked back.

I had better luck stablizing my PH with a bigger skimmer and putting the fuge on a reverse light cycle(its now an algea scrubber but still on when the main lights are off)

09/18/2012, 07:53 PM	#1
Happygolucktroy Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2012 Posts: 2	Increasing Ph of water from sulfur reactor outlet Anyone have any ideas as to a permanent way I can increase the ph of water dripping from my sulfur reactor before it makes it's way into the tank?

09/18/2012, 08:56 PM	#2
bertoni RC Mod Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mountain View, CA, USA Posts: 88,616	There's probably no need, but you could drip it near the input of the skimmer, and let the skimmer outgas any carbon dioxide that's lowering the pH. __________________ Jonathan Bertoni

09/19/2012, 03:29 AM	#3
dan-in-gr Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 385	Hi, I just picked up a dual chamber reactor that I am building into a sulfur reactor, the first chamber is sulfur beads and the second will be aragonite only (Reborn), I am hoping with a large second chamber that I can stabilize my pH a bit. Will find out in two weeks when I get my project complete.

09/19/2012, 07:56 AM	#4
EnderG60 Plumbing Engineer Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Atlanta GA Posts: 3,260	Oddly when I used a second chamber of aragonite on mine after a few weeks I started getting gunk building up in the second chamber which was causing nitrates. I took it off and never looked back. I had better luck stablizing my PH with a bigger skimmer and putting the fuge on a reverse light cycle(its now an algea scrubber but still on when the main lights are off)