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    Posted: October 17 2011 at 12:29pm
I am trying to get my pH down to 6.2 and notice that it requires me to have the effluent bubble rate really high, like 3 bubbles per second. Is this normal? I have noticed that the more bubbles, the louder the pump gets and it gets me worried as I don't want to burn it out. 
I have the drip rate around 40/min. 

Any of you had to change the valve on the drip rate? Mine seems to not be super stable as I have to watch it daily to make sure it doesn't stop dripping. Im thinking about switching the cheap valve out for another and any ideas would be useful. 
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The sound you are hearing in the pump is just the C02 going by the impeller, its nothing to worry aboutSmile Are you controlling your CO2 from a ph controller or are you just manually doing it?
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I just drip it into my pH test tube. I will eventually get a controller but might get a solo pH prove soon.
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Is it normal to have that many bubbles to keep the pH that low? The media was in there when I bought and it looks like thick sand.I was thinking about getting ARM media so that I know exactly where I need to keep the pH where as right now it's just a rough guess.
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A.R.M. makes a small grain media that almost looks like a thicker sand, are you sure thats not whats in there? I like to use the normal large grain media from A.R.M. I always kept my ph inside the reactor at 6.4 but I had it on a controller so I didn't pay to much attention to how much C02 was going in when the regulator was on. As long as you are keeping it at a pretty consistant 6.4-6.8 ph level you should be good. 
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Great to know. I will be switching out the media in a few months to the larger ARM media. I checked my Alk levels and they were really high so I'm thinking that the reactor is working. I've cut it back for a bit until the Alk drops down to around 9-10. It was around 15. I just added some new sand so I'm thinking that might have raised it so high all of the sudden.
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