Calcium Reactor & Hair Algae

[Lock]

I have a 125 gl reef which I was using a self maid calcium reactor (can be seen on my home page) on. The reactor seemed to work well, keeping the calcium at 450+. I developed a bad case of hair algae and fought it for some time. All of my perameters were great. I was really stumped as to why I couldn't get rid of the algae . So I decided to turn of the reactor. Since then almost all of the hair algae has died off. I'm thinking that I wasn't getting Co2 into the tank and there by promoting the algae growth. I would really like to use the reactor. I was dripping the out put (PH 6.50 - 6.75, Tank PH was stable at 8.2 - 8.4) straight into the sump before. Any ideas on a better way of doing this?

Thanks in advance for any info.

[Dman]

My guess would be that you were getting Co2 into the tank and that was promoting the growth. Don't know for sure but I would think that hair algae needs cco2 to grow.
Derek
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[Greg Moore]

Anything green loves CO2. For just that reason you can get CO2 kits to inject CO2 directly into the tank water for fresh water planted tanks.

Modify your reactor to make use of a secondary chamber system. The water leaving this chamber will be close to 8ph and it will consume almost all remaining CO2 in the effluent.

Greg Moore