What is it?

What is a coiled denitrator?
thnx
Danny

 

A pvc pipe with a coil in it for water to run through slowly then it has bioballs in the center, kinda hard to explain but here is a link that better shows it.it is suppose to lower nitrates.
http://www.3reef.com/forums/i-made/do-yourself-denitrator-49635.html

 

In simple terms, its a coil, inside which, there is limited oygen present, so the bacteria species that convert Nitrate to Nitrogen gas multiply readily and thus deal with nitrates

with the standard live rock (base rock thats become live) and SSB set ups there is insufficient real estate for these anaerobic bacteria to colonise so whilst the amonia to Nitrite conversion is good, and the Nitrite to Nitrate conversion is also optimum, the lack of anaerobic (no oxygen) areas means nitrates can escalate

an nitrate reductor - helps to ensure there is a balance of all the bacteria species present in the system to ensure all these paramaters achieve 0

Steve

 

Two sponsors carry them that I know of.... ATT and Aquaripure.

 

aat?

grrrrr...I hate it when my caps are changed to lower case