<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14833932#post14833932 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Black71gp
I need some help. my denitrator has been working great took it from 160 down to around 10 right now. my denitrator is 6" tube 36" tall with 4L of bio matrix and 2 gallons of LSM. system is around 1100 gallons, I had some weird deaths and noticed a clear snotty growth in areas of the tank. I traces this back to the same looking stuff in my denitrator, so i took it apart for cleaning, it was full of brown and white stringy snot. pipes and everything barely any flow was making it around and was just NASTY. my question is now that nitrates are down, should i use less media and just have the denitrator buffer, I know i cant leave it off because of my bioload the nitrates do go back up. water changes can not keep up and for some reason neither does my large DSB, so the Denitrator is the only thing that worked. so what to do now? a 1/3 of media put back in? just to handle the 10ppm and get it to 0 and keep it there without turning all nasty again, i hate to imagin was was being put back into my tank.. any help is appreciated.. thanks
jarrod