DIY Algae scrubber

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It would be awsome, if a denitrifing fresh water bacteria, would, burn through nitrate.
I wonder if the salt water version could be acclimatized to fresh water? Or even brackish?
 
markstrimaran said:
It would be awsome, if a denitrifing fresh water bacteria, would, burn through nitrate.
I wonder if the salt water version could be acclimatized to fresh water? Or even brackish?
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They bacteria I linked should work with fresh and salt.
 
A deep sand bed and reef rock will denitrate in salt water quite well. Fresh water is missing some thing.
I carbon dosed for a while, mixing up sugar water to feed the denitrator, it was running about 12 GPD, of 0 ppm effluent when everything was unplugged from gunk.
I blogged it at "contained carbon dosing"
On this site. Algae scrubber replaced it. But my scrubber lacks the abilities to cut nitrate, rapidly. It burns ammonia, more than nitrate.

https://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/...-carbon-dosing-in-freshwater-aquarium.660409/
 
markstrimaran said:
A deep sand bed and reef rock will denitrate in salt water quite well. Fresh water is missing some thing.
I carbon dosed for a while, mixing up sugar water to feed the denitrator, it was running about 12 GPD, of 0 ppm effluent when everything was unplugged from gunk.
I blogged it at "contained carbon dosing"
On this site. Algae scrubber replaced it. But my scrubber lacks the abilities to cut nitrate, rapidly. It burns ammonia, more than nitrate.

https://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/...-carbon-dosing-in-freshwater-aquarium.660409/
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Plants prefer ammonia over nitrate, and nitrate tends to be a last resort.
 
markstrimaran said:
A deep sand bed and reef rock will denitrate in salt water quite well. Fresh water is missing some thing.
I carbon dosed for a while, mixing up sugar water to feed the denitrator, it was running about 12 GPD, of 0 ppm effluent when everything was unplugged from gunk.
I blogged it at "contained carbon dosing"
On this site. Algae scrubber replaced it. But my scrubber lacks the abilities to cut nitrate, rapidly. It burns ammonia, more than nitrate.

https://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/...-carbon-dosing-in-freshwater-aquarium.660409/
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I can't speak for everyone, but my sand isn't very deep, and I have no rock in my tank. Along with this, the water in my sump is flowing at roughly 1500-1600gph, so anaerobic bacteria can't grow on the media. I believe these in combination prevent the nitrate reduction in my freshwater tank.
 
Angelphish said:
I can't speak for everyone, but my sand isn't very deep, and I have no rock in my tank. Along with this, the water in my sump is flowing at roughly 1500-1600gph, so anaerobic bacteria can't grow on the media. I believe these in combination prevent the nitrate reduction in my freshwater tank.
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You would have to use a reactor with the Dr. Tims media so you could run a slower flow through it.
 
Fish Tank Travis said:
You would have to use a reactor with the Dr. Tims media so you could run a slower flow through it.
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That's what I'm planning to do. I mentioned it earlier in the thread.
 
I had 1 cubic foot of pumice, and course sand. With a under gravel filter. In a 30 gallon, my nitrates eventually hit 200ppm.
Perhaps I needed the right strain of bacteria. It never removed nitrate until I added a carbon source, sugar.
 
markstrimaran said:
I had 1 cubic foot of pumice, and course sand. With a under gravel filter. In a 30 gallon, my nitrates eventually hit 200ppm.
Perhaps I needed the right strain of bacteria. It never removed nitrate until I added a carbon source, sugar.
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Do you have a thread on sugar?
 
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