fluidized sand bed filter
- Thread starter SuperLeet
- Start date
Fluidized Bed Filter will not take care of nitrate, in fact, it will raise nitrate because it is very efficient with nitrite. The sand would clump together if there's a power failure. You need to tilt the filter to get it working again. Sand at that time might overflow and find it's way to your tank. Other than that, it's sure is a good filter against nitrite and ammonia.
Superleet
Fluidized beds performance are similar to trickle filters in their ability to assimilate Ammonia & Nitrite, with the final byproduct produced is nitrate. You need another device.....algae filters, Nitrate reactors, water changes, etc. to remove the built-up / excess Nitrate.
Since you are constructing a large coral garden a relatively low maintenance fitlration system would be your best approach, which is a Deep Sand Bed. The deeper the sandbed, the greater the area for faculative anaerobic bacteria to colonize and convertNitrateinto Nitrogen gas that can easily escape the tank - very basic description.
Good luck......
Fluidized beds performance are similar to trickle filters in their ability to assimilate Ammonia & Nitrite, with the final byproduct produced is nitrate. You need another device.....algae filters, Nitrate reactors, water changes, etc. to remove the built-up / excess Nitrate.
Since you are constructing a large coral garden a relatively low maintenance fitlration system would be your best approach, which is a Deep Sand Bed. The deeper the sandbed, the greater the area for faculative anaerobic bacteria to colonize and convertNitrateinto Nitrogen gas that can easily escape the tank - very basic description.
Good luck......
I think there is more information on nitrate than anything else if you would just use the search feature on this board to look for keywords like "nitrate" (obviously), "algae", "dsb", "LR", "LS" etc.
I guess the most talked about method recently is a deep sand bed, so yes, a 5" sandbed. But you can also try macro algae, coil denitrator, live rock, reduce feeding, praying etc.
It is crucial that you find a solution to nitrate & phosphate unless you don't mind having a 800 gallons pool of green water or algae garden.
Hope that helps!
[ August 01, 2001: Message edited by: Sashimi ]
I guess the most talked about method recently is a deep sand bed, so yes, a 5" sandbed. But you can also try macro algae, coil denitrator, live rock, reduce feeding, praying etc.
It is crucial that you find a solution to nitrate & phosphate unless you don't mind having a 800 gallons pool of green water or algae garden.
Hope that helps!
[ August 01, 2001: Message edited by: Sashimi ]
Sponsor Reefs
We're a FREE website, and we exist because of hobbyists like YOU who help us run this community.
Click here to sponsor $10:
