Kryofrozen
My fish have names!
Hi Guys
I just got back from Builders Express and a LFS for my DIY goodies.
I'll take photos and attach them to this thread later.
Shopping list and how much?:-
1 X 1m 11cm drain pipe - R17.95
2 X 11cm End caps - R49.95 each (Expensive but I had to have 'em)
90m Air line tubing @ R1.00p/m = R90.00
What I have already at home:-
Bioballs (I have tons from my FW days!)
Marine Silicone
2 X Elbows
What I plan on doing:-
So I have all of the above and I'm going to make the standard DIY Coil Denitrater. The plans for which are readily available in different variations on the www. BUT I'm going to do something different! I've read a lot about the breakdown of nitrates within the denitrater but what stopped me from doing this project a while ago was the mention of the water leaving the denitrater having to be heavily aerated to remove the sulpher hyd. that can be and might be released into the tanks main body of water; the levels of which can build up in the system to toxic over time. This sounded like too much of risk and a mission for me and would ultimately require the water first going into a container with a ton of airstones and then yet another return pump to pump it back into the tanks main stream.
I recently came across an article which mentions filtering the water through carbon before going into the tanks main water stream. This removes the sulpher hyd. and cleans the water further. Since I change the carbon every two weeks I'll be removing the build up entirely!
So how am I going to do this? Well I bought a Water boy 3 in 1 unit a while ago which runs my carbon filtration. It used to run a UV but the UV kept on rusting in my system so I eventually gave up on the UV all together! Back to the denitrater, I'm going to hook up the exit pipe from the denitrater to the entrance part on the 3 in 1; filter it first through the carbon and then into a very water turbulent part of my sump to further mix the denitrated water with the tanks main body of water.
I can't wait to get home and start this project! I'm hoping the 1m length will be sufficient to filter out the nitrates in my 780lt system. If I don't see a significant drop in about 2mths time, I'll add another DIY denitrater and take it from there!
Well thats all for now!
Cher
I just got back from Builders Express and a LFS for my DIY goodies.
I'll take photos and attach them to this thread later.
Shopping list and how much?:-
1 X 1m 11cm drain pipe - R17.95
2 X 11cm End caps - R49.95 each (Expensive but I had to have 'em)
90m Air line tubing @ R1.00p/m = R90.00
What I have already at home:-
Bioballs (I have tons from my FW days!)
Marine Silicone
2 X Elbows
What I plan on doing:-
So I have all of the above and I'm going to make the standard DIY Coil Denitrater. The plans for which are readily available in different variations on the www. BUT I'm going to do something different! I've read a lot about the breakdown of nitrates within the denitrater but what stopped me from doing this project a while ago was the mention of the water leaving the denitrater having to be heavily aerated to remove the sulpher hyd. that can be and might be released into the tanks main body of water; the levels of which can build up in the system to toxic over time. This sounded like too much of risk and a mission for me and would ultimately require the water first going into a container with a ton of airstones and then yet another return pump to pump it back into the tanks main stream.
I recently came across an article which mentions filtering the water through carbon before going into the tanks main water stream. This removes the sulpher hyd. and cleans the water further. Since I change the carbon every two weeks I'll be removing the build up entirely!
So how am I going to do this? Well I bought a Water boy 3 in 1 unit a while ago which runs my carbon filtration. It used to run a UV but the UV kept on rusting in my system so I eventually gave up on the UV all together! Back to the denitrater, I'm going to hook up the exit pipe from the denitrater to the entrance part on the 3 in 1; filter it first through the carbon and then into a very water turbulent part of my sump to further mix the denitrated water with the tanks main body of water.
I can't wait to get home and start this project! I'm hoping the 1m length will be sufficient to filter out the nitrates in my 780lt system. If I don't see a significant drop in about 2mths time, I'll add another DIY denitrater and take it from there!
Well thats all for now!
Cher