Gen X Media and ph setting for Ca Reactor

[cmm1970]

Quick and easy, what ph are you setting your controller maximum at running Gen-X reactor media?

[Boomer]

That may vary some / system but generally not above 6.8

[SDguy]

By maximum do you mean how low can you go?

I've done 6.2 with large media, but it can clog the needle valve on the effluent more easily.

[cmm1970]

Okay, that was what I was looking for. It runs much like ARM in that you get below 6.7-6.8 and you start having particulate and clog issues it seems. I am trying to run NEO Mag in my Ca reactor with ARM media. I have to run the arm at 6.8-6.9 to keep from over dosing my tank with alk and to keep the media from turning to mush. I was looking at GENX as an alternative that perhaps could be run a little more acidic so that I would get greater dissolution of the NEO MAg media that to date, has done little for my mg levels. I attribute that to not running acidic enough to dissolve the NeoMag.

[cbrguy]

I run Gen-x @ 6.7 with a bubble count of 30 bpm and a drip rate of around 40. My ca is around ~400 and my alk is 7.5