Anybody here using Caribsea A.R.M media

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If so, Where do you keep your effluent PH at ? :?:

The box says set reactor @ 7.5, But common is 6.5-7.0 - just wondering because I could not find a PDF on it....
 
I use ARM and haven't paid any attention to the effluence pH. I make sure that I get Alk in the 30 range and let the pH be at whatever it wants.

HTH.
 
@nobody wrote:
I use ARM and haven't paid any attention to the effluence pH. I make sure that I get Alk in the 30 range and let the pH be at whatever it wants. HTH. said:
:twisted:
Dangerous :twisted:

I keep mine at 6.43 to get it to dissolve good and have no clumping.
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I don't use it but from what I have read of others that do, you don't need a low pH in the reactor to get it to work, unlike the harder ones. Its designed to use less CO2. Many people have it set at 6.8 or 6.9... its a safer level and avoids some pH problems in the tank.
 
I'm went ahead and lowered my effluent down to 6.8.

I also did some research on CaribSea ARM and found this.
http://www.rockcanyon.com/reef/reactor.htm

It's about how CaribSea ARM has phosphates in it when disolved. I really think this is the case because I have been battling green cynoalgae on my lower rocks and glass. I have a Phosban reactor and thought for sure I would have no phosphates, but I think the ARM is the culprit.

I'm going to go ahead and switch to Koralith course.
 
@ms71171 wrote:
I'm went ahead and lowered my effluent down to 6.8. I also did some research on CaribSea ARM and found this. [url=http://http://www.rockcanyon.com/reef/reactor.htm]http://www.rockcanyon.com/reef/reactor.htm[/url] It's about how CaribSea ARM has phosphates in it when disolved. I really think this is the case because I have been battling green cynoalgae on my lower rocks and glass. I have a Phosban reactor and thought for sure I would have no phosphates said:
Read this.. you may have secound thoughts. http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issues/april2003/short.htm
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@crash519 wrote:
[I]@nobody wrote:[/I][quote="I use ARM and haven't paid any attention to the effluence pH. I make sure that I get Alk in the 30 range and let the pH be at whatever it wants. HTH. said:
:twisted:
Dangerous :twisted:

I keep mine at 6.43 to get it to dissolve good and have no clumping."]

Not really. 30dkH is what you wnt. The ph will naturally be appropriate if that's the case. I do the exact same and have for many years now. Mine is around 6.7 or so to get the 30 dKh.

I highly recommend dripping your calcium reactor effluent through some Phoban or simular to remove any phosphates. The course ARM has much much less but the finer media contained higher amounts. Even 2.0 though i want to get rid of whichis why I drip it into some phosban then into the tank.
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Keith,

Genius! Dripping my effluent into my phosban! Why didn't I think of that. :lol:

I'll give it a try and will repost the visual results, if any, to my green algae problem.

My test kit never reads any phosphates so I just have to go off of what I see.
 
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