Not yet. Randy Holmes-Farley did this article about sulfur denitrators where he showed the chemical reactions happening and demonstrated how the calcium and alkalinity, although there will be some, won't really be a significant source for the tank. However I'm sure it's still better than having nothing.
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Originally Posted by reeferaddict
gradually ramped it up to around the 5X media volume turnover per hour as stated in Delbeek and Sprung Vol 3
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How did you ramp it up? I'm still running about one drop per 2 to 3 seconds. Could I start opening it up at this point?
I don't have vol3 yet. I dropped a pretty big hint to Santa though.
So ...
5x media volume. I'm using a 4" reactor and my media height is approx. 8.5".
So roughly PI * 2^2 * 8.5 (Pi * r^2, where r=2 because diameter is 4") = ~107 cubic inches
1 cubic inch = 16.387064 millilitres
Therefore 107 * 16.387064 = approx. 1750ml
1750ml * 5 = 8750ml/hour
8750 / 60 = approx. 145 ml/min
That seems pretty fast to me. Am I overlooking anything or should it really be opened up that fast?
I guess that's only about 6 seconds to fill a 15ml measuring spoon. A little more than twice what I run my calcium reactors at (I run mine at 60ml/min) so I guess it's maybe not that far off. Hmmm ... interesting.
Ok so the real question is how much time do I give myself to open up the reactor to that speed?