WANTED DIY Kalk Reactor plans!!

[1628mna]

hello all,

does anybody have any good diy kalk reactor plans. im trying to follow the kalkenstein plans. i have the materials to do this just not the plans. im used to following prints or being a little more (measurement wise) detailed because of work always working with prints. so any detailed or explanation of procedures would be greatly appreciated.


thanx in advance mike

[1628mna]

anybody,anybody!!

[JR's Reef]

Try this
http://jjgeisler.com/reeftank/diy_kalkwasser_reactor.htm

[1628mna]

joey8 you hit the jack pot!! perfect plans, i love them. do you have a kalk reactor? if so you know why people use a cap for the bottom when they can just sand down the outer wall of the toilet flange and just slide the pipe right overtop of that? is there a reason they do that?

[JR's Reef]

Your welcome. To tell you the truth I dont know why. I have that i built using those plans but changed them up a bit.

[Fishguru]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13292146#post13292146 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by 1628mna
joey8 you hit the jack pot!! perfect plans, i love them. do you have a kalk reactor? if so you know why people use a cap for the bottom when they can just sand down the outer wall of the toilet flange and just slide the pipe right overtop of that? is there a reason they do that?



for asthetics.....it looks much nicer to use black Acrylic...for not much more money.....escpecially if you are mounting 2 Pipes next to each other....

[pong]

tagging along

[preimo]

me too

[1628mna]

bump, cmon all you kalk reactor building fanatics.


mike

[DEERE G]

I would like to build kalk reactor also. Any help would be appreciated. Drawings, Pics, Etc. Keith

[Reefrookey]

I dont have plans but here is what i came up with. Click on my red house for pics

[1628mna]

your not getting that pvc tube back keith im starting the build tommorrow lol.


mike

[DEERE G]

Reefrookey, That looks pretty nice. How well does it work?
Mike, I guess I will have to hunt down another piece. lol

[Esquare]

A slightly different take.


http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/179058Kalk_Reactor2__Small_.jpg

http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/179058Kalk_Reactor.JPG

[DEERE G]

I like that. It looks simple. The idea of not having to mount anything to the outer diameter of the tube is nice.

[Esquare]

Thanks. The clean appearance is what I was going for. There are actual pics in my gallery.

[aww_419]

nice, good job. might do something like that myself

[corvettecris]

Looks fantastic. Beats the heck out of a $400 deltec that does the same thing.

[Esquare]

Thanks, I have about $75.00 or so in it. Probably less if you take out the 4' of tube I didn't use.

[DEERE G]

Esquare, Nice pics in your gallery. In your opinion , is there anything you would do different to the reactor. I think I am going try this thing. I am impressed. Keith

[Esquare]

The only thing that didn’t turn out like I wanted it to was the flange (the part that is cemented to the tube and has the top bolted to it. I didn’t get the fit perfect so I had to use some thick cement to fill in the gaps.

Also, I may add a valve to the output as any time I move it or fiddle with it water can slosh into the output and then into the sump.

Also, I made the mistake of not adding code in my Aquanotes to turn off the ATO for 30 minutes when the stirrer kicks on. I ended up with a blizzard the first time the ATO topped off the sump while the reactor was stirring.

[8BALL_99]

I've got a couple of Aquamedic stirrers.. I was going to build a DIY version. But the AM were only 189 each.. I didn't want to use a pump since they burn up a lot on kalk reactors.. Magnetic stir bars wear the bottom of the reactor and get stuck.. By the time I built a stirrer I would have spent about the same money and wouldn't' have the twist open flange at the top... Just my .02 on it.

[SanFranTodd]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13319075#post13319075 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Esquare
Thanks. The clean appearance is what I was going for. There are actual pics in my gallery.

I love it, similar to the GEO design.

How did you cap the bottom of the acrylic tube? Just mount it to the black base and drill through?

[Esquare]

Thank you.

I cut a shallow groove in the black acrylic base and mounted the tube in that. Prior to that, I drilled 3 holes, 1 for the powerhead input, 1 for the output and 1 for the ATO input (which has a check valve inline).

[SanFranTodd]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13323686#post13323686 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Esquare
Thank you.

I cut a shallow groove in the black acrylic base and mounted the tube in that. Prior to that, I drilled 3 holes, 1 for the powerhead input, 1 for the output and 1 for the ATO input (which has a check valve inline).



genius!

last question - what did you use for the top flange?

[Esquare]

3/8" piece of acrylic that I cut into a circle.