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[Reefbaby]

Hey ya'll!

So...I'm trying to figure out whether or not I made too hasty of a purchase. Here's my situation:

We have a Schuran Jetstream 1 Calcium Reactor for our newest tank. I decided (here's where the hasty purchase comes in!) that we need to control the CO2 output by installing a pH probe to measure the effluent. So...we bought an IKS Aquastar pH probe this weekend to hook up to the system. The problem that we discovered last night at 10pm, once we had all the media in and the bubbles/effluent volume all set, is that there is no place to plug in a pH probe into the calcium reactor!!

I've searched all over the internet, only to discover that modifications to the calcium reactor are possible, but for the life of me I can't find any web pages featuring these theoretical modifications!

Anybody have any suggestions?

Is it sufficient to just measure bubble count/effluent volume and the pH in the tank? I could, I suppose, hook up the calcium reactor to a timer, so that it shuts off during the night and only runs during the day, but I thought it would be better to have it be pH-dependent....