Or aim I wrong? yes in this case and most of the time.
Your posts 1557, 1558 and 1560 are untrue,misrepresentative and clearly aggressive sarcastic,offensive and arrogant in nature. They warrant no further response and will get none beyond this: My record regarding quality advice ,and open minded discussion, learbing and sharing information vs "mismanagement" or "wrong thinking"on this subject and many others has a clear history familiar to many; there is no need for me to defend it from you.
Folks are free to read the thread and the posts of others or accept your" rules". Personally, I very skeptical about anything you say after having read so much misstated fact and digressions which limit opportunities to discuss things in a reasonable coherent way.
There is enough real information including answers to several of your questions and opinions presented as fact throughout the pages of this thread to give reasonable folks a chance to make informed decisions wetherthey choose to follow your" rules".
You just keep saying the same thing over and over and attacking those who have a different view.experience , idea or onmsoghjt . You just don't know what you don't know and make up inaccurate facts based on opinions on a broad variety of things in an effort to be seen as right rather than having any interest in what is true . Since you represent yourself as some sort of expert it's important to correct those misstatements of facts even though it's tedious and usually met with more misstatements, silent dsimissal and misrepresentations of the poster's position making for a a nasty argument.
There are plenty of folks who run successful aquariums with or without sulfur denitrators; many with less sulfur.
The thread is full of accounts using less. I'd advise folks to skip your posts and simply note your opinion is 2% of water volume for a sulfur amounts with 50ppmor more nitrate or 1% with 49ppm or less with more when nitrate is low . Others disagree and use less with success. Then they might have a chance to gain some information from other posters and to form their own opinions or to engage in some more pithy discussion without the self echoing , misinformation, acrimony and unpleasantness you bring to the discussion. Personally , I've had enough of it.;so stop the personal attacks and try to control yourself.
Hopefully they do!
One can not remove what is not entered. To maintain very low nitrate levels at high daily nitrate productions a lot of water has to pass the reactor to be able to remove the produced quantity of nitrate daily. So big reactors are needed to remove the huge quantity of oxygen entered in the reactor. And you are wright, the volume depends of the nitrate level of the system, but it is only one of the parameters. Less nitrate in the water means more flow to be able to remove the same quantity of nitrate daily and a bigger volume of water has to pas the reactor daily. Please tell me If I am wrong!
How are you going to remove the same quantity of nitrate daily following your advise to use less sulfur when the desired nitrate level is reached? Please explain!
What is success? That it works? That the reactor removes a little bit of nitrate?
With any quantity of sulfur one can reduce nitrate, only enough sulfur gives the possibility for having full control over the nitrate level.
How many nitrate does one expect to remove at a flow rate of 2 drops a second at a nitrate level of 0.5ppm?
A sulphur denitrator is used to be able to keep nutrient dependable animals, corals and invertebrates and not have to worry about the nitrate level. A sulphur denitrator can make a big difference when used and sized correctly.
Why use it only to reduce a little bit of nitrate when a BADESS is able to close the nitrogen-cycle completely?
When the easy general rule to use a 1% reactor when not more than the total volume of system water has to pass the reactor daily is followed one will have a very good, maintenance free, reliable denitration system that does not need a lot of attention. Used as part of the system one may forget it is there while controlling the nitrogen-cycle?. And no, I am not exaggerating. If more than the total systems volume has to pass the reactor use a 2% reactor. Doubling the volume makes it possible to have a good working reactor that removes high daily productions at very low nitrate levels.
Nobody has to follow this advice but those who will try it will have the same experience as we have for many years now. An easy manageable, problem free system ?
Try it out and see the difference!!
Not advisable for nutrient poor systems.
