Anyone use a Phosban reactor as a Sulphur denitrator?

[kau_cinta_ku]

oh yeah and make sure you have the black tubing if your gonna wrap it around the outside for the alage like you said. but others have used clear but they also coiled it on the inside of the PVC which is much harder to do lol

 

[32flavors]

so you inserted the 1/4-18 pipe into the PVC cap and then threaded the valve into it? Sorry, just a little confused..

 

[kau_cinta_ku]

yep, drilled the hole in the middle of the cap, then just used the tap with a wrench to thread the inside. try to get it as close to straight as posiable so you don't end up cross threading the valve. but very easy to do.

 

[Neptune777]

How does this de-nitrate reactor work?
Is it creating an anaerobic zone like in a DSB without the sand?

How much water flows through it an hour?

Where does the nitrogen gas go after the bacteria consume the nitrates?

 

[kau_cinta_ku]

it works about the same. the 100' of tubing that the water goes though makes it depleted of oxygen along with the bacteria on the bioballs. not much water it will havea strady drip just short of a stream but still a drip. but never calculated the gph on it.

 

[Neptune777]

I'm not sure I follow how the water gets depleted of Oxygen by passing through a 100' tube and your chamber (Unless it moves verrrry slowly). Have you tested the O2 levels on the water exiting the system compared to the water going in?

 

[kau_cinta_ku]

no i haven't tested the O2 levels that way, but yes it does go through the tubing very very slowly.

 

[32flavors]

That's how most coil denitrators work.... google "DIY coil denitrator" and you'll get PLENTY of info on it. At 1-3 drops persec through 100' of tubing, the O2 will be depleted. Also, there are a lot of threads on here about DIY coil denitrators.

What I was originally wondering was the process for safely converting a phosban reactor to a sulfur denitrator, which is not the same thing Sam has done. His is basically a coil denitrator.

 

[kau_cinta_ku]

your right it is basically a coild denitrator. and i think you could turn a phosban reactor into a sulfer denitrator if you can find a way to seal it due to the pressure it will have but should work fine IMO

 

[mavgi]

Re: Anyone use a Phosban reactor as a Sulphur denitrator?

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10176724#post10176724 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by 32flavors
Subject pretty much says it... inheriting a Phosban Reactor with a whole new set up, can I use it as a Sulfur denitrator?

i use 2 of them on my 120 gallon tank and they work very well:

 

[32flavors]

Mavgi,

Can you tell me:

Specifically, what sulfur media are you using?

What other media do you have in there?

How do you run effluent through carbon, specific method (sorry, I'm not dumb, I just reallly don't want to screw up and poison my fish)?

Where does your effluent go to next, assuming you use a sump?

Thanks!!

 

[mavgi]

i use the carib sea media . but i suggest to buy the Schuran media it's bigger and IMO the water flow better :

http://storefront.addictiveaquatics...dia_for_Schuran_nitrate_filters-7968-267.html


top of it it's the Schuran calcium media .

i drip 5 drop per second (after it's break in ) and use those 2 reactor where was before the chaeto section.


here some more info :

http://www.aquariumpros.ca/forums/e...age/USArticles/Zmiro/DenitratationSoufre.html

 

[doonan75]

Ok My sulphur denitrator using the acro cal reactor and the aquamedic phosphate reactor filled with sulphur has brought my NO3 from 50+ down to between 0-2 per the salifert test kit. I draw the water after the refugiim and the protein skimmer and drip the effluent back into the protein skimmer. I add alk suppliment to keep alk up. My caulerpa began to grow vigorously while the reactor was cycling now it's stoped and the nuisance hair algae in the over flow is turning brown.