No,the bacteria needs O2 to live and reproduce.Taking this from the water
leads to what we had in the 70's using UGF with powerheads.Couldn't
figureout why Ph went down to 7 and killed everything and a few hrs.later
it was back to 8 or 8.1
At 10:23 AM 1/6/01 -0500, you wrote:
>
>Ron,
>
>Do you mean co2?
>
>Ted Wilson
>http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze25xch/home.html
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>Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2001 8:27 AM
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>Subject: Re: Fluidized Bed filters
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>
>Whenever you have all filter media underwater,the de-nitrifying bacteria
>takes its O2 out of the water leaving less for fish and corals.under heavy
>loads actually lower Ph.
>
>
>
>
>At 10:24 PM 1/5/01 -0500, you wrote:
>>Does anybody out there use a fluidized bed filter on their reef? Someone
>>told me once a few years back that they were not good on a reef. They said
>>that the aerobic filtration created too many nitrates. I have one that I
>>have not been using and my idea is to use it to feed a 15 gallon refugium
>>filled with calerpa. The turn over would be pretty slow because the filter
>>is run by a hagen 402 powerhead. The plan is for the filter to handle a
>>larger biological load and the calerpa to handle the nitrates. Does this
>>sound like it would work or not.
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