Tony Romano
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I have a large Midwest - how high can I go on flow and still have anaerobic chamber?
DIY Sulfur Denitrator
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skippyreef
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Can you just have straight Sulfur media without the CACO3 media in the chamber? Just for future reference.
My nitrite coming out is down to 2 from 4 yesterday
so I guess that means I am cycling the reacotr now?
My nitrite coming out is down to 2 from 4 yesterday
so I guess that means I am cycling the reacotr now?
djfrankie
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13072178#post13072178 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by skippyreef
Can you just have straight Sulfur media without the CACO3 media in the chamber? Just for future reference.
My nitrite coming out is down to 2 from 4 yesterday
Yes. CACO3 is only used to help bring up the ph in the efflluent. Another side effect of using CACO3, even though is minimal, will be the addition of Alk as the media dissolves.
And Yes.
HTH,
djfrankie
saltydog64
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kcress.........Great that your tank is @ zero or near that, but as you must know no two tanks are exactly the same and to say not check out of the SR is really not good advice, even though in YOUR case it seems to have worked.....why ? for one thing measuring Nitrate output, or more important the direction of change is important for any flow rate adjustments to be made and knowing output is also a must to judge impact of the amount of sulfur in there, is it to little or to much.....not knowing Nitrate direction is like flying blind so for my 2 cents your advice is not good for all to follow just you :mixed: :mixed:
Higher results out of SR vs tank is normal and just shows how the reactions going on in there are much more complex than we all orginally thought, and the color interferances are not caused by the sulfur or the sulfates, I used both kits and have varied results using both the LaMotte Nitrite and Nitrate kits with no problems. Like I said just my 2 cents.
skippyreef
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Thanks Frankie
I will keep on testing and see where I go to
I will keep on testing and see where I go to
skippyreef
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Just Tested!!!!
Nitrates were way red yesterday on my salifert (coming out of reactor) and well over 100PPM per teh color card! Today they are barely over 1PPM!! Nitrite is just tinged a little pink and might be at 0.1 according to low range! I cannot believe this thing is this efficient at cycling!!!
I am at 1gtt/sec now and think tommorow I should go to 2gtt/ sec and then retest the following day?
Nitrates were way red yesterday on my salifert (coming out of reactor) and well over 100PPM per teh color card! Today they are barely over 1PPM!! Nitrite is just tinged a little pink and might be at 0.1 according to low range! I cannot believe this thing is this efficient at cycling!!!
I am at 1gtt/sec now and think tommorow I should go to 2gtt/ sec and then retest the following day?
Tony Romano
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what is a gtt?
saltydog64
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TR.....................ditto on that, never of gtt/sec.
skippyreef
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gtt/second =drops per second
Tony Romano
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Ok - I kind of figured that...where does it come from? Why not dp/sec?
Thanks - just curious.
Thanks - just curious.
skippyreef
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Iti s a standard abreviation used in pharmacy / medicine....old habbits die hard LOL.
skippyreef
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ZERO nitrite and nitrate on the output side tonight so bumped up drip rate a little and will keep ertesting.
I noticed that the red cyano is starting to disappear from the rocks last night too. I tested the tank Nitrate and it seems to be pulling back just a little. The color is somewhere between the 10 and 25 reading on the color card. I am so happy that I decided to do this!
I noticed that the red cyano is starting to disappear from the rocks last night too. I tested the tank Nitrate and it seems to be pulling back just a little. The color is somewhere between the 10 and 25 reading on the color card. I am so happy that I decided to do this!
skippyreef
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My skimmer is tweaking right along and I am going to do a water change this evening and change my carbon. I am also slowly taking outthe sand in the tank with each water change.
So I had a denitrator that had an eheim 1046 hooked up to it. Seemed a bit low on the flow, at only ~75gph. I put a MJ1200 as a circulation pump, and now there's little pockets in the middle where there's some tumbling going on.
Anyone know what the drawbacks of higher recirculation flow is? What about circulation that's lower (like the 75gph of the eheim)?
Anyone know what the drawbacks of higher recirculation flow is? What about circulation that's lower (like the 75gph of the eheim)?
skippyreef
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I did the calcualtions after I measured how fast I am running hte water through the unit. Curently I am processing about 6.5 gallons of tank water a day because the for rate is a little over 1 liter an hour. I have read that these can be running as fast as five liters an hour without detriment. I am slowly ramping up the output daily and testing the next day to make sure that I am not getting nitrates on the output side. Is that the best way to adjust?
skippyreef
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Increased drip rate this morning after testing and still getting zero on the output side. Tank seems to look better every day!!
saltydog64
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skip...................Excellant results and oh ya thx for the explanation on the FR thingy. Good luck on your project.
Dick
skippyreef
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I am up to a pretty steady drip now (almost a small stream) and all is well.
