Friends, I have read your thread on Sulfur denitrators and have more questions.
I have made every effort to build a reef that requires as little manual intervention as possible. I am interested in building a nitrate reactor. My nitrates are not bad around 0.2 ppm and my phosphates are less than 0.03. I would like both at or close to 0 so I can feed more.
I am worried about lowering my PH with the unit as it is always on the low side in my tank. I am going to add a second stage to my Ca reactor shortly. I thought I could send the effluent of my sulphur reactor through that same second stage. Is that a good idea ? If both reactors are flowing throughh the same second stage for PH increase purposes, how do I adjust the drip rate of either ?
The thread also mentioned that the nitrate reactor effluent could feed the Ca reactor input which would be great to save on Co2, however, I am not clear on this approach. As soon as the nitrate reactor drip rate is more than what you want for the Ca reactor you are screwed ? Otherwise if you restrict the output of the Ca reactor when it is fed by the nitrate reactor, you will screw up the nitrate reactor... I must be missing something... Is it just that with this approach, the nitrate reactor dictates the flow through the Ca reactor which is no longer restricted at all, in which case you lose any control over the Ca reactor ?
thanks for your help.
Eric Bourbeau
eric.bourbeau@gmail.com
I have made every effort to build a reef that requires as little manual intervention as possible. I am interested in building a nitrate reactor. My nitrates are not bad around 0.2 ppm and my phosphates are less than 0.03. I would like both at or close to 0 so I can feed more.
I am worried about lowering my PH with the unit as it is always on the low side in my tank. I am going to add a second stage to my Ca reactor shortly. I thought I could send the effluent of my sulphur reactor through that same second stage. Is that a good idea ? If both reactors are flowing throughh the same second stage for PH increase purposes, how do I adjust the drip rate of either ?
The thread also mentioned that the nitrate reactor effluent could feed the Ca reactor input which would be great to save on Co2, however, I am not clear on this approach. As soon as the nitrate reactor drip rate is more than what you want for the Ca reactor you are screwed ? Otherwise if you restrict the output of the Ca reactor when it is fed by the nitrate reactor, you will screw up the nitrate reactor... I must be missing something... Is it just that with this approach, the nitrate reactor dictates the flow through the Ca reactor which is no longer restricted at all, in which case you lose any control over the Ca reactor ?
thanks for your help.
Eric Bourbeau
eric.bourbeau@gmail.com
