So what's the mentality for a continuous pump with calcium reactors? Is it simply because the lower pH in the chamber you want to try do small continual dosing so the pH doesn't hop around? I would think doing 2x faster with half the amount of time (say 30 seconds on/off) would have the same average effect on pH just possibly some minor spikes and lows.
The mentality with continuous pump with calcium reactors is basically to regulate the effluent. It's better to regulate on the feed side instead of on the output side of the reactor. This has to be done using a valve, preferable a needle valve, which can clog and doesn't have the finite adjustment of a continuous feed pump. With a feed pump, you basically regulate how much water goes into the reactor and leave the effluent side wide open.
You can also do what you mentioned, by pushing more water through the reactor, but then you have to up your co2 rate to keep the chamber below a certain pH so that the media would melt. This would then cause your solenoid to be on for longer, use more co2, and possibly drive your pH even lower in your display tank.
If this one was from Neptune’s it could be an Oregon Tort, they have lots of that lying around. I still have three Neptune-acro-unknowns that I haven’t given up on yet, it’s fun to watch them.
I agree with Randy, this isn't the Oregon. I have a legit OG Oregon, from Sang, that looks very different. The Oregon carries no greens in its body and is just a solid blue. Here's the Oregon that I had before the crash.
The one at Neptune that Randy and I have with the green base and blue tips is a wild tort. Brighter than the typical Miyagi, but doesn't pop like some of the others with similar colors (e.g. RR Aussie gold, eCorals unknown).
