Another Ozone Question

So I have a Red Sea ozone generator that ive been wanting to use, but with a new baby and two dogs I want to make sure I do it right. I have an apex with a orp probe, check valves for both sides of the air tubing going in and out of the generator, an air dryer, and my protein skimmer has an inlet for ozone. I've been reading that I need to run the ozone through a carbon source for it to be safe in my house. I just don't know the best way to do it without a specially built reactor... I have a little carbon reactor with a separate jbj pump that I thought about hooking up a venturi and running the ozone through it instead of the skimmer. But I don't know if that will give it enough contact time. Any help or experience would be great! Thank you!

If you run your ozone through the skimmer, just place a mesh bag of carbon on top of the skimmers collection cup to adsorb any remaining ozone that makes it out of the air holes in the cup.

Thanks for the replies. I currently have an Achilles tang in qt and it is one reason I would like to run ozone, others are for improved water clarity and overall health of my fish as a whole.

'Upload' is bob, right? I'm probably a bit paranoid, but I mostly worry about the health of my little girl. Will that carbon bag absorb all the leftover ozone? Or does some escape through the skimmer outlet in the micro bubbles? Or would that be such a small amount that it wouldn't be an issue? Again, thanks for everyone's help!

I agree. In the amounts it is used in marine aquariums, it's perfectly safe in the home.
My opinion about Randy Holmes-Farley's statement is that he was being slightly old school and because he may have never used it, he didn't see the need.

That's not to say that Ozone is the ultimate answer. I've seen many tanks with and many tanks without. I've seen some tanks with ORP over 400 that did not use O3 and were very beautiful and healthy environments. I've seen the Powder type Tangs do well in many different tanks. As I often say, preparation is the key to successfully introducing new fish. Significant to that preparation is food. To have growing in the tank, plenty of the food that fish likes, goes a long way toward it's health and happiness.

I believe it would be unfair to an aquarium to say that running O3 will make it healthier. O3 is like fire. It oxidizes/burns things up. In the natural course of nature these things do oxidize but the use of O3 accelerates that burning and changes the aquarium from what it was or would be without O3. Moderation is good.

O3 can help control the Ich Parasite, but there are a number of other alternatives for effectively controlling Ich. Nikki discussed the quarantine method at length at the last meeting, but many of us find that to be more work than we want to do. UV Sterilization is a good alternative and the use of Garlic Oil has been very effective for me. Interestingly, Nikki also uses Garlic.

Again, I would set up the ORP meter now to get a baseline understanding of the tank and its base ORP before initiating the introduction of Ozone to raise ORP.

For what it's worth these are some of my thoughts.
Aloha,
Mark