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12-25-2006, 04:52 AM
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Me too. Yeah, I dunno. I don't know what to do. Maybe the commercial units have bigger pumps, or have an upwards flow through the media. Maybe there's a threshold volume of media that's needed and I just don't have it. Who knows. If I could see a working and proven unit in action I could compare notes... Oh well.
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12-25-2006, 10:49 AM
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Korallin 1501 Biodenitrator
http://www.marinedepot.com/md_viewIt...Product=KL9115
http://www.korallin.de/frmst2.htm I wonder what is so fifferent between this and what you are doing?
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12-25-2006, 12:59 PM
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Tony,
Ok, working off some reading I've done on this topic - not first hand (I prefer coil based denitrators myself). Sounds like your through-put is way too fast, crank it WAY down until you start seeing effluent output with 0 nitrite / 0 nitrate (or get stunk outta the house - that'd indicate way too slow). Once you get that 0/0 effluent then start bringing up the drip rate slowly. Definitely check that mag pump you're using for recirc... Although that kicks your cycle back to day 1 again (introduction of too much o2 - supposed to be a low o2 environment), if it's not working up to snuff - the lack of recirc could be causing some problems. since i'll never find the link again - good rc thread: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showth...hreadid=752497 Last edited by AndyL; 12-25-2006 at 01:06 PM.
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12-25-2006, 07:26 PM
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Oh yeah, one thing is, the effluent has never had any kind of sulfurous scent to it whatsoever. Isn't that odd? I think it has be indicating something's not right here.
Yeah, maybe 1 to 2 drops per second is too fast for the volume. I'm firmly convinced that this is not working and not going to work given an indefinite amount of time -- something has to change on it first.
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12-25-2006, 09:51 PM
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Tony do you have a pic of the reactor I would like to look at it for a sec..
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12-25-2006, 10:00 PM
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Santa brought me Vol3 T.R.A. Within 5 minutes of reading it I found about 4 things I'm doing wrong with this arrangement and that's only reading a few paragraphs of the sulfur section, by the time I'm done reading it all I could find out a few more things that aren't right with how I'm trying this.
Soooo .. I guess this calls for a "do-over". I'll elaborate on the mistakes of this setup later (stepping out for a while now).
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-- Tony My next hobby will be flooding my basement while repeatedly banging my head against a brick wall and tearing up $100 bills. Whee!
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12-26-2006, 09:22 AM
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Quote:
you can try first page of this tread for the pictures..
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12-26-2006, 01:04 PM
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I'm interested to hear what you think you've done wrong.
Not very encouraging results though... but perhaps there is a reason(s) that we'll find out soon. I'm getting quite close to starting my own experiment, with any luck it will be late next week.
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