foma2000
Aquarium Advice Freak
so i dont think ive said anything but i recently got a job working for an aquarium matnence buisness. its really small scale(sorta im the only emplye and ill soon be buying out the buisness) theres only 7 tanks. 5 are 5 gal nanos and one is a 300 gal surge aquarium(it has a laptop conected to a displacement tank that controles tides and wave surges) and the other tank is a 700 gal surge aquarium with a 200 gal displacement tank for surges. its in a restrant and its #!@#$^& awsom. so my boss calls me the other night and sais its about time that we (I) build a calcium reactor. so i know the basic design of the calcium reactor, and i sorta get how the reactions work. so im throwing around some ideas and need some help.
1) what are the advantages/disadvantages to 1 chamber as a opposed to 2 chambers. price isn't a factpr(the restrant will be paying for everything including the time i take to build it)
2) i just found out that you want the input and c02 to be at a low drip. im guessing that would be a bit diffrent for a 700 gal tank. is there some kind of equasion that i could use to find the flow rate of both water and c02 or do i just need to test and ajust?
3) inside of the reactor how fast should the flow rate be from the recurculating pump?
4) is it better to have the water flow up through the media or down through it?
5)any thing else you can tell me
i know that this is a long post and it sounds like im taking the easy way out by just having you answer everything but ive tried to do my research and all i can find are alot of diagrams with part lists that dont really tell how exactly to ajust.
thank you sooooo much for anything you can give me
1) what are the advantages/disadvantages to 1 chamber as a opposed to 2 chambers. price isn't a factpr(the restrant will be paying for everything including the time i take to build it)
2) i just found out that you want the input and c02 to be at a low drip. im guessing that would be a bit diffrent for a 700 gal tank. is there some kind of equasion that i could use to find the flow rate of both water and c02 or do i just need to test and ajust?
3) inside of the reactor how fast should the flow rate be from the recurculating pump?
4) is it better to have the water flow up through the media or down through it?
5)any thing else you can tell me
i know that this is a long post and it sounds like im taking the easy way out by just having you answer everything but ive tried to do my research and all i can find are alot of diagrams with part lists that dont really tell how exactly to ajust.
thank you sooooo much for anything you can give me