REACTORS- Filtration for stingrays
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Nope, I will just show my work in here, be in great or not.
I am right now starting to think of the water flow in the reactor, I wonder how important it is to have it flow in at one end get as much contact as possible in the reactor and then flow out the bulkhead. Kinda like a UV or what, or if that will even matter with the amount of flow and turn over, ect. thoughts??
I am right now starting to think of the water flow in the reactor, I wonder how important it is to have it flow in at one end get as much contact as possible in the reactor and then flow out the bulkhead. Kinda like a UV or what, or if that will even matter with the amount of flow and turn over, ect. thoughts??
lol. Reactor build thread?
Energy's setup gave my an idea...Would it function if I had my tank overflows to drain into the top of a reactor instead of the sump and the bottom drain of the reactor to drain into the filter sock of my sump, and pumped back to the tank via the pump in the sump, or would it be to much gph draining from the overflows into the reactor?
This might work! My problem is stand is not tall enough.
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Isde w/ that idea i would have the water coming into the reactor go thru a sock as well.
Im loving all these ideas!
HOw about adding a couple of the water bottle k1 filters into a sump? I have seen a few of these recently that are directly in the main tank. Would this be as effective in a sump? Id love to rock a couple of those k1 bottles in my sump!
Im loving all these ideas!
HOw about adding a couple of the water bottle k1 filters into a sump? I have seen a few of these recently that are directly in the main tank. Would this be as effective in a sump? Id love to rock a couple of those k1 bottles in my sump!
As far as I am aware its all the same water its going to work on the bio all the same, really depends on how large of a reactor you need really. I have a friend that has little sand reactors in the sump of one of his setups and really likes it allot.
Few random pics from the beginning of toying with reactors........
Blue drums are plastic 55 gallon barrells.
Big bubbles seem to work, but small ones seemed to work better.
K1 still made its way under the egg grate, even with an acrylic skirt around the outside.
Got tired of trying to make strainers work on smaller drains so went up to 2" before I got decent results, and this was with only 500 gph running each one.
Blue drums are plastic 55 gallon barrells.
Big bubbles seem to work, but small ones seemed to work better.
K1 still made its way under the egg grate, even with an acrylic skirt around the outside.
Got tired of trying to make strainers work on smaller drains so went up to 2" before I got decent results, and this was with only 500 gph running each one.
Doesn't matter which has more surface area for bacteria. The way we overkill stuff ANY bio material will have more then enough.
What matters is the fact that you can either have these "animals" working FOR you consuming 10X their weight every hour in stuff we don't want in our tanks, OR you can hope they magically appear despite not having a proper enviroment for them.
Isn't the big picture to provide the best homes we can to these fancy flat fish that many of us have thousands invested in? If it wasn't I would have stopped at pot scrubbies a long time ago. But I thought they'd be more "CHIPper" with the good stuff......I know I am.
if surface area doesnt matter why was you trying to work out the amount of media needed
if surface area doesnt matter then you would get the same results from a reactor with just 2 bits of k1 in a coke bottle
Do you ever read people's ENTIRE reply? It says "The way we overkill stuff ANY bio material will have more then enough." This means we all use way more then we need so to knit pick surface area on one single piece is stupid.
Just shows how far you'll go to keep an arguement going....... It's OK though, we know it's just the way you are.
Well i have my reactor ( a glass cube of 60 litres ie 20 gallons ? ) more than half full of K1.
Water is pumped in form the sumps middle chamber ( after mechanical filtration ) and drained back by gravity in sump- back to tank- chamber.
Only the lowest layer of K1 mooves ( i would not call it boiling )
I have installed two 5000 litre per hour pumps inside the reactor...
I will go the airpump route with as big or as many airstones i manage to get, because i sense, as DB stated, as well as others, that water pumps won't do the boiling trick...
How much power would you advise for the airpump?
Water is pumped in form the sumps middle chamber ( after mechanical filtration ) and drained back by gravity in sump- back to tank- chamber.
Only the lowest layer of K1 mooves ( i would not call it boiling )
I have installed two 5000 litre per hour pumps inside the reactor...
I will go the airpump route with as big or as many airstones i manage to get, because i sense, as DB stated, as well as others, that water pumps won't do the boiling trick...
How much power would you advise for the airpump?
