Ok, was just wondering. Thanks. Seems like I should buy new media then. My media is pretty sludgey. Seems like a waste to just chuck it but I'm not sure what it'd be good for, since it's still pretty granular. If a person could harvest the really fine stuff out of there they'd have something to rival sugar sand (maybe too fine, though).
But at this point it just seems like my pump is being overworked to push water through it. The pressure build-up seems to stress both the pump and the acrylic (I actually have to repair another seam on the reactor now ... at least it was on the inside partition wall instead of an outside seam like the last time an acrylic weld popped on me..)
I only got to about half way's used up before reaching this point. Makes me wonder that the only real good way to extend the useful life is to just have an up-flow style where the bed can be constantly fluidized (and thereby hopefully prevent compaction).
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