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Originally Posted by Delphinus
It's the latter case Danny, i.e., it's a substrate for anaerobic bacteria to take hold. I expected it would take some time for the bacteria to take hold, but I didn't expect that it would take hold with the nitrate-producing bacteria (which I thought was aerobic) first. The pH in the reactor went down within 2 days so I thought that meant it was an anoxic zone at that point, meaning from that point forward it would be the anaerobic bacteria colonizing the sulfur beads. I guess it's going to progress through various spikes but now I wonder if I should move the reactor off my tank and instead run it off a bucket of old water change water just to make sure I'm not dumping NO3 and NO2- into my tank unnecessarily (which I assume is not so good for the tank inhabitants!)
I'll send you a PM about the monitor. Thanks!
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http://deltecaquariumsolutions.com/d...actors_000.pdf
Deltec is indicating that you need 3 month to cycle the Denitrator!
Quote from manual.
"Note that the flow rates shown above maximum rates and are only achievable when the reactor has been fully
matured for over 3 months and is operated in full automatic mode with a water temperature of 20-30 C."
12-12-2006, 11:10 PM
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