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Oakie
08/17/2006, 06:16 PM
if the effluent PH coming out is between 6.5 and 6.7, are there any advantages to maitaining this balance but increasing both the co bubble count and the effluent drip.
Is there any advantage of having more effluent drip coming out, provide the ph is in the appropriate range or am I just wasting my media.
DaveBrader
08/17/2006, 11:33 PM
the adjustment you are talking about by increasing drip and bubble count at the same time, is the adjustment you would make if your system was using more calcium and alkalinity than you are adding. So if at your current bubble count and drip rate your calcium and alkalinity are slowly dropping over time, you would increase both, if your calcium and alkalinity were increasing slowly over time, you could cut back the drip rate and bubble count.
If you increase calcium and alkalinity too high because of this it could mean trouble, more so than if it decreases slowly over time. But the idea is to slowly make these adjustments to keep your calcium reactor adding alkalinity and calcium at the same rate your system is using it...
Dave
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