Another calcium reactor question

[jason sartain]

Can you put old SPS skeletons in one or both of your chambers in a CA reactor? It's basically calcium right?
Has anybody ever tried?:unsure:

 

[rbredding]

you'd have to break it down chemically somehow in order for it to change the water composition... (Right?)

 

[james s_]

Im pretty sure you can...Ive read that somewhere.

 

[james s_]

Rbredding;407407 wrote: you'd have to break it down chemically somehow in order for it to change the water composition... (Right?)

Thats what the C02 is for

 

[jason sartain]

Rbredding;407407 wrote: you'd have to break it down chemically somehow in order for it to change the water composition... (Right?)

Does the CO2 break it down like the media we put in there?

 

[jason sartain]

James S.;407409 wrote: Thats what the C02 is for

HAHA you beat me!!

 

[skriz]

Yep, I've done it before to punish the corals that rtn'd on me

Just make sure the skeletons are clean (boiled)..just in case!

 

[rbredding]

gotcha... I didn't see that he was using it in place of CA Reactor media... sorry...

 

[jason sartain]

ares;407463 wrote: same stuff, but it sure is expensive compared to the regular stuff!

LOL "darnit, out of media again! come here purple monster..."

HAHA,I just wanted to put them in there instead of the trash.I figured I'd get all I could out of them.
Thanks Guys.

 

[james s_]

They normally end up in my sump...I would never throw them away...its like getting free live rock everytime they die! But I like the idea of melting them down to produce calcium even better..


Now that I think about it its like getting really overpriced live rock...bummer.

 

[jonathan]

That's what I call going green!

 

[rbredding]

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