Ozone

[Tazmaniancowboy]

Did a search the other day on members using ozone. Seems like there was a lot of talk about trying it back in the day.

Who uses ozone currently and who has used ozone in the past? What do you know about ozone? I rarely hear it discussed anymore

 

[downbeach]

Here are the three articles I have on the subject:

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2006-03/rhf/index.php#1
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2006-04/rhf/index.php
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2006-05/rhf/index.php

I was thinking about using it at one time, but never felt comfortable enough with its use to invest in the proper equipment needed to run it. The knowledge/proper use of peroxide might have the same affects.

 

[Tazmaniancowboy]

Thanks Jim, I was aware of those articles, but never got a chance to read them yet. I know of a few people that had gorgeous tanks that did use ozone, but I don't hear of it anymore

 

[bmoney]

I had the big corallife ozone generator, for the benifits it gave it was not worth the work. the air dryer pelets I had to bake them dry every 2 days. It ate ozone safe check valves every month. When the check valve goes the pump you have pumping the water through the ozone reactor and charcole reactor would run up the ozone safe line right in to the ozone generator, one to many times of this and say bye-bye ozone machine. It even ate through 2 check valves once. I finally put one of those big air pumps on it to stop the back flush. As far as killing ick and stuff like that I saw no benifits as you can not put 100% of the tank water through it. Also since if it gets into your tank it can kill the fish which is why you need the charcole you now have something else you must test for. Unless they have come out with something neww in the past five years I call it another hole in your fishtank you put money into. I amm of ther opinon if it an't broke don't fix it hopes this helps

 

[Edwardw771]

I have a brand new ozone thing you can have Taz.

 

[HerbieK]

If you are going to use ozone, I would recommend an OzoTech ozonizer. The Poseidon model is pretty good, and I used it for a few years. This thing produces ozone even w/o the air drier. I would not consider any other unit. I used a Red Sea and had nothing but trouble. They sell them at aquarium Specialty. I ran mine into the skimmer and did not use any carbon.

Hope that helps.

Herb

 

[Tazmaniancowboy]

I have a brand new ozone thing you can have Taz.

Thanks Ed, We will talk

I ran mine into the skimmer and did not use any carbon.

Herb

You say this in past tense! LOL you don't run one anymore?
I assume it was out in the garage? or was it under the tank?

 

[Baxreefs]

I've always been too scared to run Oz thru a skimmer. I ran my Red Sea 100g Oz maker into a Lime wood Air stone and changed the stone frequently. By keeping the Luft air pump elevated along with the Oz unit, I never saw any water go back to the unit. I never used a controller but use a ORP monitor. Kept my ORP at or around 450 and you I saw positive results. Not running it now ince the move but I will run one again. Planning to use a reator filled wth Bio Bale for the Oz this time.

 

[Gonzapa]

I been toying with Ozone for 3 years now and haven't found a reactor that Makes me happy as most of the reactors I see mix the effluent in the air and the water on the way out to the aquarium making it very difficult to eliminate the ozone.
I have been trough 4 different DIY reactors and I think I found a way to have the air and water not mix in the way out allowing me to just run a line outside the house to get read of the air and ozone mix and only have to treat the water coming out of the reactor.
As soon as I can find some cheap 4 inch acrylic you will see the reactor in the DIY section

 

[bmoney]

I had found a ozone reactor made by corallife and that is what is inside not bale but very small bio balls. I should also mention that when I was using ozone in the early 2000's that there were no skimmers made from ozone resistance plastic. So that was never an option. The redsea machines have a orp probe bulit in and the ozone production is adjustable. You need to use check valves when you use a reactor because the reactor actualy becomes pressurized to some extent. Also if for some reason you loose the air pump the water pump will pump water up the air line as well as through the reactor. I had used an oxygen test kit and never saw enough of an increase in the level in the water to make it worth the expense. but then again I was using it on a 300gal tank maybe the ozone machine was not the correct size for the tank. Maybe I will try again.