I purchased a few liters of matrix the other day to put into my new tank after catching up on Sahin's tank thread. I have a few questions about using it and I didn't want clutter up his thread.
Does matrix need to be run in a canister/reactor of some sort? If so, I know Reefvet suggested a minimum of 100 gph flow throw the media to take advantage of it's anaerobic capabilities. If i have a pump that's pushing around 150 gph into a reactor, is that going to provide enough flow to allow anaerobic filtering. The output of the pump is the same size as the input on the reactor, so there won't be a decrease in the size of the plumbing until it hits the media.
I've seen plenty of threads where siporax users build a box out of egg crate and stack the tubes end to end until they fill the box up. I was thinking of doing something similar with my matrix but lining the egg crate with some plastic window screen to make sure nothing falls out. Then just placing the box in the middle of my sump. Would there be any benefit in doing that or should I put the media in a reactor?
edit: If you have you're own questions, feel free to add them to this thread.
Does matrix need to be run in a canister/reactor of some sort? If so, I know Reefvet suggested a minimum of 100 gph flow throw the media to take advantage of it's anaerobic capabilities. If i have a pump that's pushing around 150 gph into a reactor, is that going to provide enough flow to allow anaerobic filtering. The output of the pump is the same size as the input on the reactor, so there won't be a decrease in the size of the plumbing until it hits the media.
I've seen plenty of threads where siporax users build a box out of egg crate and stack the tubes end to end until they fill the box up. I was thinking of doing something similar with my matrix but lining the egg crate with some plastic window screen to make sure nothing falls out. Then just placing the box in the middle of my sump. Would there be any benefit in doing that or should I put the media in a reactor?
edit: If you have you're own questions, feel free to add them to this thread.
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