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Old 12/19/2007, 12:01 PM
hansmatt hansmatt is offline
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CO2 feed for Ca Reactors?

I understand that CO2 can pass through normal airline tubing resulting in an 80% loss. Silicon cracks with long CO2 exposure. What are you using to feed your reactor? Any differences?
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Old 12/19/2007, 12:48 PM
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I use the 1/4" water line tubing (ice maker stuff). Not sure if it is better or not. I would also be interested in hearing if there is a better tubing out there.
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Old 12/20/2007, 12:45 AM
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I use the 1/4" water line tubing (ice maker stuff). Not sure if it is better or not. I would also be interested in hearing if there is a better tubing out there.
tom
Tom,

I know that there is "co2 tubing" out there made by Clippard, but according to the masses... the RO tubing is fine. Here is the feedback I received when I asked about it.

http://archive.reefcentral.com/forum...readid=1240731
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Old 12/20/2007, 07:36 AM
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great...thanks for the info!
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Old 12/20/2007, 12:48 PM
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Great! Thanks for the info MeuserReef!
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Old 12/20/2007, 03:09 PM
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No problem. There was some negative feedback on that thread about the PE tubing getting brittle over time but the stuff is so freakin' cheap and can be found almost anywhere, I would be OK if I had to replace it every 6 mos. or so.
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