ozone

tellycoleman · 06-28-2007, 09:29 PM

been reading about ozone reactors and water clarity
Has anyone used them
What are some benefits and problems

Hop · 06-28-2007, 11:02 PM

Benefits are reduced risk of parasites and infections, very clear water, increase o2... And a few others.

Cons are that ozone is very dangerous, can be fatal for your fish and needs to be installed correctly. ozone breaks plastic down, so it needs to be fed correctly and you have to have a ozone safe skimmer if that is the way you want to feed it into the system.

Ozone is a great tool, but one that needs to be implemented correctly!

tellycoleman · 07-05-2007, 05:48 PM

Can Ozone Be Used In An Acrylic Tank

Hop · 07-05-2007, 06:41 PM

Yes. Ideally no ozone would make it to the tank. You need an ozone safe sklimmer if that's how you elect to inject it into the system. Basically a cellcast skimmer, not an extruded one. Precautions must be made to ensure that it's filtered properly at the skimmer and at the skimmers exit. Definately one of those times when if you don't know, ask!

Good luck!

tellycoleman · 07-05-2007, 06:47 PM

Thanks I Think It Is A Little To Much To Worry About Right Now At The Beginner Level. Maybe After Time.

Hop · 07-05-2007, 06:56 PM

I think as SPS dominated systems flurish here in the next couple of years the use of ozone will increase and therefore, more information and a wider selection of products. Might be best to keep an eye open for new info

russbriscoe · 07-07-2007, 11:22 PM

HOP: I have a sump that has 500gal in it. I will be adding ozone (red sea 200 deluxe) to my system. Two questions,

1) do you think it will push air 20' to get to my skimmer intake?
2) since the ozone breaks down sooo quickly do you think i can get away with dumping my skimmer return into a bubble trap before space that my main pump sends water to the tank without carbon?

Hop · 07-08-2007, 01:23 AM

Well the first question is yes... As you would T your air intake for you skimmer and in essence there would be some suction as well as pushing from the unit. I think it would work fine, but I wonder why you couldn't put the generator closer to the skimmer, just for the sake of less ozone-safe tubing

The second one I would likely say error on the side of caution and trickle it over the carbon... I'm not an expert, in fact I've never ran one, but I've been reading up on it as I'm planning on getting one for my system... There are likely a few people who can really answer that one here with certainty...

Here are two links I have found invaluable though:
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2006-03/rhf/index.php

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2006-04/rhf/index.php

russbriscoe · 07-08-2007, 07:29 AM

Thanks for your input HOP

The reason that I can not put the generator closer is because of the layout of my sump room. I have an 11' x 11' room and my sump is on one wall and the skimmer is on the other. The probe needs to be in the sump so the generator goes over the sump. However, the skimmer is kind of far from the sump. The tube will need to travel across the wall my skimmer is on, around my pumps over to my skimmer, and then down 6' to the floor where the air intake is for the skimmer.

I have read both of those articles and there is also a part 3 that I read too. They are great! He didn’t make great claims that ozone does much of anything, but the pictures of water clarity were, in my opinion, pretty drastic.

I am going to need to think about the carbon thing. I don’t really want to run carbon. The return for my skimmer is also the return for my chiller and I don’t want anything restricting the flow. That is why I had hoped since my sump is so big; it might not matter since the life time of the ozone is so short.