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I have a AQUAMAXX TS-3 Sulfur Denitrator that at one point I had working great, producing 0 nitrates. This lasted for about 6-8 months but after some tinkering with it, it somehow turned into a nitrate creating cesspool creating more nitrate coming out of it then coming in.
I ended up taking the reactor offline for a
A couple Months trying to find more sulfur prills.
Finally Got new sulfur and media and just started it back up a few days ago. The only thing that remains from the original reactor setup is the black filter media pad that I set on top reactor media.
When I set up the reactor used max flow first 24
Hours and then reduced to 1 drop per second.
So two days in at one drop per second and I’m getting higher nitrates coming out of the the reactor then is going in. 62.2 nitrates coming into the reactor and off the charts 100+ coming out.
Maybe I should have out the reactor in a citric acid bath between cycles to clean it?
Maybe reusing the black filter media was a bad idea?
Any ideas of what I am doing wrong here?
Thanks!
I ended up taking the reactor offline for a
A couple Months trying to find more sulfur prills.
Finally Got new sulfur and media and just started it back up a few days ago. The only thing that remains from the original reactor setup is the black filter media pad that I set on top reactor media.
When I set up the reactor used max flow first 24
Hours and then reduced to 1 drop per second.
So two days in at one drop per second and I’m getting higher nitrates coming out of the the reactor then is going in. 62.2 nitrates coming into the reactor and off the charts 100+ coming out.
Maybe I should have out the reactor in a citric acid bath between cycles to clean it?
Maybe reusing the black filter media was a bad idea?
Any ideas of what I am doing wrong here?
Thanks!