ozone?

if staying in softies you have no actual need for a calcium reactor, and you dose with kalk to up your alk cause from how i understand it a calc reactor wont do that anyways. and ozone is all up to you but if everything seems to be going good i wouldnt worry about that either

 

Depending on the size of your tank and what you keep in it, a Calcium Reactor is the best piece of equipment you can buy to maintain CA and Alk. It almost eliminates the need to dose at all. As far as Ozone goes i have heard a lot of good things about it but i think most people don't use it.   I think my ACIII is the coolest peice of equipment i have ever bought for my tank, just the fact that you can tell your friends your tnak has it's own IP adress is worth it.
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With a softy tank I would spend the money on one or all of these and in this order: Fluidized canister filter for carbon, Top notch skimmer, something to contol temp. if necissary, phos reactor. I would not spend money on increased current, ORP, or Ca/Alk management. All of those elements can be taken care of with a kalk stirrer and water changes. Softies like lower flow, medium light, and slightly aged water. If you want to switch to SPS later, buy the calcium reactor.

 

I agree with Travis, I don't think a softies tank would benefit at all from a calcium reactor. Normal waterchanges should provide plenty of Ca and Alk additions. If you have a low Ph, the reactor is most likely going to make it even lower. Dripping a light mix of kalkwasser should help with the PH.

As far as the Ozone, I don't think many people run it. It can make an impressive display tank as it keeps the water very clean, but there are some health and saftey concerns about it that you should research first.

Do you already have the aquacontroller? if you don't, that's what I would spend the money on.

 

The ac3 with dc8 would be an excellent choice.  Here are some articles about ozone by Randy Holmes-Farley:

Ozone

Ozone and the Reef Aquarium, Part 1: Chemistry and Biochemistry
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2006-03/rhf/index.php

Ozone and the Reef Aquarium, Part 2: Equipment and Safety
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2006-04/rhf/index.php

Ozone and the Reef Aquarium, Part 3: Changes in a Reef Aquarium upon Initiating Ozone
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2006-05/rhf/index.php

 

Ah, I thought you had a controller. Move that to the top of my list!!! /site/DesktopModules/NTForums/themes/_default/emoticons/biggrin.gif

 

 

I'd not trust many of the things writen in these articles.  From the start he seemed to have a biased opinion against ozone.  His studies I found to short to be accurate and the results were skewed and opinionated. 

I do not use ozone myself and probably will not.  In the near future I will start using one of the zeolite systems.  The two methods are completely different but their purposes are close to the same.  Zeo's are just a more natural way to control the bateria's in your system and has a few more benifits. 
I did a good bit of research on ozone if you'd like sometime lets get together in the chat and we can talk about it.

Posted By lee on 03/18/2008 7:57 PM

The ac3 with dc8 would be an excellent choice.  Here are some articles about ozone by Randy Holmes-Farley:

Ozone

Ozone and the Reef Aquarium, Part 1: Chemistry and Biochemistry
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2006-03/rhf/index.php

Ozone and the Reef Aquarium, Part 2: Equipment and Safety
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2006-04/rhf/index.php

Ozone and the Reef Aquarium, Part 3: Changes in a Reef Aquarium upon Initiating Ozone
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2006-05/rhf/index.php