HeavyChicken, you need to go back to science class and learn about oxidation, precipitation, adsorbtion, etc.......
NITRATE FILTER PROJECT UNDERWAY
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POSSIBLY THIS IS WHAT THE Yellow beads do. in a rainsoft filter. ..... i am just going based on past large aquarium projects, i have talked extensively with the guy who built the 1700g shark tank and he ran it for well over a year without a single water change and no problems
Some or none of your last statement can be true, but not all of it can.
I suggest everyone do their own study...
I suggest everyone do their own study...
i am simply going off of what i know about a Large scale eco system and what i have been told by others, take none of what i say as fact, as i am just giving my interpretations of what i have learned and heard in the past. Also bear in mind that i have no... (read ZERO) expirience with freshwater aquariums. so if this stuff relates to marine ecosystem than it does, but if not then so be it...
plumbing is now complete.
flow meter to show flow thru the nitrate filter
dosing pump to feed the micro c g
micro c g in blue 5 gallon pail
flow meter to show flow thru the nitrate filter
dosing pump to feed the micro c g
micro c g in blue 5 gallon pail
HeavyChicken;1620507; said:
Ah.... I think that's the difference.
FW tanks (for the most part) aren't dosed with replacement chemicals as are marine tanks. There aren't refugiums filled with macroalgae and plankton, live rock, calcium reactors, regular chemical additives (trace and other elements), etc. Water changes are very difficult and expensive in SW, so most of the hobby is built around NOT changing water. The opposite is true with FW.
the nitrate filter is now running in the continuous mode.....it takes tank water at 40 ppm and reduces it to 20ppm nitrate.
right now its running at about 150 gph.
as the bacteria build up it should be run at between 500-1000 gph.
pic shows the nitrate tests dark=tank light=from filter
(40ppm and 20ppm nitrate)
Nic;1637261; said:
great results today as well......will try to scale it down.....very curious ??
