Re: new RDSB or RDSB v. TBPC w/right now
Re: new RDSB or RDSB v. TBPC w/right now
I feel this is pertinent to the RDSB discussion, however I understand if the powers that be feel it needs to be its own thread.
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9032666#post9032666 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Safedad
My starting Nitrates are 40 (down from 80 with water changes and nitrasorb). My bucket is in a closed loop following a torpedo filter with carbon and right now bacteria and a flow rate of about 550gph. I have a 55g with 3" maroon (two GBT anemones as best friends), 2 perculas, 4" regal tang, 2.5" coral beauty angel, and 2 blue green chromis. I am just starting to add corals so Coral Beauty Angel might be moving on. I will track the nitrates and let you know my decline rate.
Thanks for the inspiration,
Bob
Safedad,
I'm curious about your thoughts on your experience using the Right Now* bacteria with the TBP**Carbon system. For example did you expect to have nitrates this high with this system?
I'm curious because if I understand you correctly you are looking to lower your nitratres with a RDSB bucket. Which would indicate to me the TBPC system may not be performing as well as one would hope.
Having said that, and if I understand you correctly, your position as stated in your post above appears to negate some, but perhaps not all, of the claims of the right now bacteria and thus the need for it. Are we assuming a little over 9lbs of TBPC? Your turn over and flow looked in line with manufacturers recommendations.
According to the accounts on this thread the RDSB "bucket" method, an approximate $20.00 investment, appears to work well when properly set up. So at the very least it appears as though one could acheive better results for removing nitrates with a RDSB at a fraction of the money spent on the media and equipment needed to run the TBP Carbon system. What are your thoughts?
I do not ask to put you on the spot or to be argumentative. I, like perhaps many people here at RC or in the hobby, am just looking to learn from others (actual experience) in the hopes of acheiveing optimal results for my system(s). I, again like many others, am always intrigued with new, unusual, counter intuitive or perhaps even forgotten approaches.
Thanks for your input.
TankRazr
*Right Now is a desinger bacteria developed for the waste water treatment industry, and marketed on a limited basis to the home aqaurium industry as a 24 hour cycling product.
**TBP Carbon is = Tri-Based Pelletized Carbon...a substrate for the colonizing of bacteria. I believe also desinged initially for the waste water treament industry and also marketed on a limited basis in the home aquarium industry.