I decided to go ahead and set up a CA reactor even though I don't have any corals in my tank (and don't plan on putting any in for a few months) just so that I have everything in place a ready to go.
The one problem I'm having is getting the pump to draw water out of the sump. I'm using a MyReef Creations (http://www.myreefcreations.com) dual column reactor and from reading the archives there are quite a few people with that reactor and I was wondering if anyone had suggestions on getting the pump to draw water out of the sump.
Both columns of the reactor are full but I can't get the pump to draw water out of the tank. I eventually resorted to sucking on the effluent tube to get it primed (tastes even worse than regular salt water :funny: ) and I did get a slow dribble started out of the sump but the flow of effluent keeps cutting off and then the dribble dies off. I have my CO2 canister attached to a pH controller and I don't know if the effluent flow stopping has anything to do with the CO2 cutting off, but ...
Thanks in advance for your suggestions.
K.M.
The one problem I'm having is getting the pump to draw water out of the sump. I'm using a MyReef Creations (http://www.myreefcreations.com) dual column reactor and from reading the archives there are quite a few people with that reactor and I was wondering if anyone had suggestions on getting the pump to draw water out of the sump.
Both columns of the reactor are full but I can't get the pump to draw water out of the tank. I eventually resorted to sucking on the effluent tube to get it primed (tastes even worse than regular salt water :funny: ) and I did get a slow dribble started out of the sump but the flow of effluent keeps cutting off and then the dribble dies off. I have my CO2 canister attached to a pH controller and I don't know if the effluent flow stopping has anything to do with the CO2 cutting off, but ...
Thanks in advance for your suggestions.
K.M.
