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Either of those could work. A few people on this thread have used rock ruble in their reactors with success.
The dsb is being debated in a thread here already with designs as well
The second chamber is the anaerobic chamber where the magic actually happens. The water gets completely depleted of oxygen and that bacteria in there will convert nitrate to gas. The trick is keeping it from getting oxygen and from ( fill in with correct name ) smelling like rotten eggs. That’s the sweet spot
Almost the same i would say. Sulfur reactor works on sulfur pellets, which are a carbon source and media at the same time. This one you’ll need to add a carbon source like vodka to the media like you would to the tank. Essentially your carbon dosing a reactor full of porous media and creating a anaerobic zone to convert the nitrate.
don’t think it hurt it , unless it’s going to be a reoccurring thing. You can also put a check valve after the manifold in your case and none of the air/water would move out of the reactor while the power is off
Same stuff as the yellow (kintama ?) balls, I do wonder what makes them yellow and if they leach anything. Thusfar no ill effects on my tank. I have 1kg of this matterial in the reactor.Since I am waiting for my display tank, I am taking care of filteration part, I bought this acrylic box that was used as sand filter from freshwater hobby guy and I decided to convert this into nitrate reactor, I got 102 pcs of these ceramic media which is very porus and i used all of these ceramic tubes and it will hold 50 pcs more which i ordred this morning. water will enter from top 1" port and drain from bottom, drain will come up to keep the water in reactor. here are some of the pictures of the reactor..
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Same stuff as the yellow (kintama ?) balls, I do wonder what makes them yellow and if they leach anything. Thusfar no ill effects on my tank. I have 1kg of this matterial in the reactor.
Good to know! Nice reactor. This one will be just one piece? As it wil not be be gravity fed, how are you going to move water with a slow rate? Or will water enter above and exit below? (and then resticting flow or something)I have used these tubes for reactor that I put together when I had my 350 gallon and no ill effects, I sold that reactor to buddy of mine and he has it on his 300 gallon reef tank and it is working fine, He had refugium which slowly died due to no nitrates and very very low phosphates due to this reactor. I trust this media, 2 years of use and working great...