Sulfur DeNITRIFIER DIY!!!

Heads up, doing a weekly routine maintenance i noticed ~8 ppm nitrate in tank and some cyano (just a little patch in the center of tank), i tested the outflow of denitrifier and it was coming out at ~5 ppm, i looked inside reactor and found it had a white film covering the sponge and outlet, i decided to take it apart and clean it out, i only cleaned the white film, sponge, tubing, ball valve and top layer of media, i hooked it back up and will test tonite and tomorrow to see if it cycled or worked right away.

BTW when i opened the reactor there was no foul smell, no rotten egg smell or nothing, it actually smelled a little like sea water or fish food. I will post results later.


sana
 
well i got some rotten egg smell (hydrogen sulfide) coming out of denitrifier, i took it apart, cleaned it out, replaced media and started to cycle today, one thing i noticed that it had black spots inside reactor and some cyano, this time i am going to cover the denitrifier so no light hits it, i believe that light is the culprit for my denitrifier going bad well besides low nitrates, lol, how is everyone else's system doing???

sana
 
Source For Anaerobic Bacteria

Source For Anaerobic Bacteria

Hi Guys (of Course gals)

Just read this thread, great reads!!!

Maybe i missed it, but didn't someone post a referance to the use of an Anaerobic bacteria culture to add to their sulfur reactor or something similiar??

If so could someone post that info:lol: :lol: THX in advance to those who help

Dick
 
Also - updates anyone ?

Im very very curious to see what everyone has observed since posting a while back, if you have a minute plz
 
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