Originally Posted by
90257
boy iam confused so i need a ph probe or not I live in austin tx water is naturely 8.0 ph .Iguess i screwed up I need to suck freshwater not water out of my sump.for some reason i can not keep the reactor full of water.I used to have 150 gal with hang on filters that was solid purple and grew corals so fast I could not keep up with the frags. now I switched to a 210 reef ready and cant get anything to grow very well.BUT ILL get there .
I'm not trying to be ignorant, so please don't take it that way jonthefishguy, put inorder to fine tune a reactor and get the best performance from it you need to monitor the Ph of the effluent in the reactor, or else you will either turn your substrate to mush with to much c02 which would be from to low a Ph or you will not dissolve the substrate with to high a Ph.
90257 the Ph of your tap water and tank water is important Yes, but you need to be able to measure the Ph of the water from your reactor.
As for supplying your reactor's feed line you can do what jonthefishguy said which would be the cheaper way or you can get a little pump to supply it, thats what I had to do because I had no room to tee off any of my lines. Just remeber that whatever pump you do get, if you get one, make sure it can handle the head pressure