DIY Algae scrubber

[markstrimaran]

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?

 

[Angelphish]

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?

They bacteria I linked should work with fresh and salt.

 

[markstrimaran]

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/

 

[Angelphish]

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/

Plants prefer ammonia over nitrate, and nitrate tends to be a last resort.

 

[Angelphish]

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/

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.

 

[Fish Tank Travis]

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.

You would have to use a reactor with the Dr. Tims media so you could run a slower flow through it.

 

[Angelphish]

You would have to use a reactor with the Dr. Tims media so you could run a slower flow through it.

That's what I'm planning to do. I mentioned it earlier in the thread.

 

[markstrimaran]

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.

 

[FMA4ME]

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.

Do you have a thread on sugar?

 

[markstrimaran]

Do you have a thread on sugar?

https://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/...-carbon-dosing-in-freshwater-aquarium.660409/