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Old 02/22/2007, 10:54 AM
prance1520 prance1520 is offline
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Calcium Reactor ROWAphos Chamber

I'm putting together plans for my DIY calcuium reactor. I've heard people drip their effluent through ROWA to absorb some of the phosphate produced from media. I'd like to make a small chamber for ROWA that my effluent flows through to acomplish this.

My question is, since ROWA tends to clump when its not moving around, do I need to add some type of circulation to this chamber? Since the effluent will only be dripping in, this won't be enough to move the ROWA. Anyone done this or have any experience with something like this, it would be appriciated. Thanks.
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Old 02/26/2007, 07:46 PM
H20ENG H20ENG is offline
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Do you have a Rowa reactor running already? You could run your Ca effluent to the inlet of the Rowa reactor pump.

Aside from that, Maybe a tiny powerhead driven reactor.

I remember someone years back had their effluent dripping through a different type of phos media (chips rather than granules). SeanT??
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