Calcium and Low pH

[skozzy]

At what pH level will a calcium reactor start to work or start desolving the
calcium into the water ?.

[Ross Bagley]

"skozzy" > writes:

> At what pH level will a calcium reactor start to work or start desolving the
> calcium into the water ?.

Nominally, at pH6.5, you'll get decent rates of dissolution.

Like many things in nature, it's a curve that's strongly in favor of
dissolution at pH6.5 and not at all at pH8.3. Exactly how much
dissolution will happen at high pH's, well.... I'd be lying if I
said I knew :)

Regards,
Ross

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[Marc Levenson]

From what I've read recently, pH 6.7 to 6.8 is what quite a few are setting
their reactor at.

Marc


skozzy wrote:

> At what pH level will a calcium reactor start to work or start desolving the
> calcium into the water ?.

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[skozzy]

Thanks guys. I was looking into making my own reactor but needed to know
this is a starting point.

"skozzy" > wrote in message
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> At what pH level will a calcium reactor start to work or start desolving
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> calcium into the water ?.
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[Marc Levenson]

This is the one I"m going to build very very soon.

http://www.melevsreef.com/dj88.html

Marc


skozzy wrote:

> Thanks guys. I was looking into making my own reactor but needed to know
> this is a starting point.
>

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