Donovan's Nitrate Destroyer
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djbon
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I also discovered that zero no3 for a few months at water column will reduce bacteria in the reactor. With sudden increase of bioload like mine (fallow for 3 months, added 6 fishes more than 2 weeks ago), bacteria dosing has to be performed again for 5 days to take care the load.
Now that is one more success story. Hope I am following soon[emoji122]The effluent today...significant progress!!!
Ravi thank you. Saw your photos at the other forum but I couldn't understand what connector you use. Can you give me a link or photo to see if I can source them locally?
I just restarted it, after my absence, 4 days ago Don, so not yet. In 3 days I will probably increase it by 1 ml. Everything will be done slowly in my reef
remember I don't use socks and skimmer, so an event like jml, will be a disaster for my system.PS the reason I restarted nopox is the unexpected PO4 decrease by such small dosing.....somewhere in my system - hopefully in the reactor- bacteria population is increasing, assimilated Po4 in their body. I just hope that the bacteria that increasing are anaerobic in the reactor.....if in some days I don't get measurable results from the reactor outlet, I may consider adding bacteria in there.
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djbon
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I just restarted it, after my absence, 4 days ago Don, so not yet. In 3 days I will probably increase it by 1 ml. Everything will be done slowly in my reef
PS the reason I restarted nopox is the unexpected PO4 decrease by such small dosing.....somewhere in my system - hopefully in the reactor- bacteria population is increasing, assimilated Po4 in their body. I just hope that the bacteria that increasing are anaerobic in the reactor.....if in some days I don't get measurable results from the reactor outlet, I may consider adding bacteria in there.
Haha. Noted. Yup, if you don't have mechanical filter than it has to go slow. I rarely have bacterial bloom nowadays except bacteria plankton every morning. I am quite happy with maintenance dosing, i can keep no3 between 3 - 5ppm. I don't test po4 since algae is no longer a problem after shifting to RODI.
juniorrocketdad
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Have you considered having the pump on a timer like zeovit for something like 3 hours on 3 hours off to help with anaerobic bacteria
juniorrocketdad
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I understand that it works extremely well without running the pump alternately but would it be more efficient if it were?
djbon
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I'm not sure how does the chamber reacts as the design does have both aerobic and anaerobic area linked with each other. Letting the water stagnant for a period of time might kill off the bacteria in the aerobic zone due to lack of oxigen. I personally don't think it is a good idea to do so.
juniorrocketdad
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Ok thanks for your input, I really like this design and may make one of my own, anther idea would be to put three towers in succession so the one in the middle would have extremely low flow making it optimal for anaerobic bacteria
Shawn O
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If you connect three chambers in series, and pump water through them, the speed of the flow will be the same in all three. An obstruction in one slows the flow through all. Adding multiple chambers will do the same as making the two chambers taller, it will give the bacteria more time to deplete the oxygen;
2 100ft tall chambers = 200 1ft tall chambers. Adding more distance (distance=media) for the water to travel through will allow more time for the bacteria to consume the oxygen (also PO3/4). At some point there must be a point of diminished consumption, making any further distance/media useless.
