New Biodenitrator
 

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Woohoo! Just got it today from an eBay deal - $200...

After getting my nitrates down to 20ppm with 200g worth of water changes over the past few weeks, I will run this on a rubbermaid with old tank water in it until I detect no more nitrites being produced... I'll keep everyone posted. If anyone has had one of these or any experience with one, your thoughts would be appreciated!

is that a sulphur denit. reactor?

Cheers,
Vic [veng68]

Yup it is. I like to keep lots of fish AND SPS... not a great combo when trying to keep nitrates low...

Cool - let us know how it works for you.

how much does one of those cost new?

Cheers,
Vic[veng68]

A whole hell of a lot more than I would pay! haha... I've seen 'em from $380 all the way up to $500+... it's just a Korralin 1501 Ca++ Reactor with sulfur media and crushed coral... I was thinking about making one, but for $200 I couldn't go wrong...

Why run it on a rubbermaid?? Are sort of not-quite-trusting the idea just yet?

I'd just run it on the system, what the heck. If you've got nitrates now, go for it!

I was seriously tempted on one of these too, I still sorta am for maybe a tank down the road. Let us know whatcha think of it!

Tony,

I'm thinking of running it in a rubbermaid until the nitrite level stops reading just because I've recently dropped my nitrates doing water changes and my corals are responding like never before, so I don't want to screw that up.

These things will produce nitrites and nitrates for the first 10 - 21 days so I just want to cycle it on a body of water containing no livestock but with nitrates like my old tank water... this will also give me an opportunity to learn how to dial it in. I have no doubts that it will work when cycled & dialed in, I've read some really encouraging stuff in about 8 different languages on these things.. lol

I haven't hear much about sulpher denitrators, do you have any good links on how it works and what is taking place during the process?

Steve

I am giving some serious thought to getting one of the Zeovit systems. They are using them at Gold Aquariums with some success. I think it is a similar principle.