Don do you thing for higher volume systems, will be better to make the chambers wider instead of lengthier? Increasing the overall length, so you can increase the flow into the chambers, won't be better than just wider chambers?
Or maybe multiple reactors....?
I am skimerless and I am currently dosing 3ml NOPOX, increasing it 0.5ml every 4-5 days until I see lower no3 at reactor outlet comparing to DT, without any bacteriaI bloom until now...... I thing that if you increased slowly the carbon dose , skimmer is not a must! But Im watching it carefully, hoping bacteria will only multiplying inside the reactor.
What you described, is what happens when someone dose garbon in his tank.....but we don't
we dose carbon inside the reactor, where conditions favourable =very low oxygen, to denitrifing bacteria ,exist. We want to reduce NO3 ,by anaerobic bacteria, which convert it, when there is no oxygen, to N2. So if we increase slowly the carbon dose, the population of anaerobic bacteria will increase will increase inside the reactor, consuming luckily all the carbon we dose! So no bacteriaI blooms ,no increased skimate, nothing......if the carbon dose increased slowly with increasing population of bacteria in the reactor, following! In my case this was what happened until now, because I only noticed a slight cyano increase in DT, probably because some carbon escape through the reactor the first days, but now cyano is less than ever in last 10 months, because obviously bacteria increased in the reactor and compete with it for.... everything until now I didn't measure any difference in no3 , between reactor and DT ,because probably the anaerobic bacteria didn't reach a satisfied population to "do the job" . So since I didn't notice any ill effect, I will continue to increase slowly NOpox dosing in the reactor, until I see a No3 difference.
