calcium reactor and nitrate

purge43 · 10/16/2017, 05:45 PM

Can a calcium reactor be a source of nitrate?

mcgyvr · 10/16/2017, 07:03 PM

No it cannot

bertoni · 10/16/2017, 07:44 PM

It'd be hard for the reactor to produce nitrate. I think the pH is too low to allow much to happen in terms of bacterial growth, and nitrate can't bind to calcium carbonate the way that phosphate can.

10/16/2017, 05:45 PM	#1
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10/16/2017, 07:03 PM	#2
mcgyvr Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: North Carolina Posts: 20,050	No it cannot __________________ Who me?

10/16/2017, 07:44 PM	#3
bertoni RC Mod Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mountain View, CA, USA Posts: 88,616	It'd be hard for the reactor to produce nitrate. I think the pH is too low to allow much to happen in terms of bacterial growth, and nitrate can't bind to calcium carbonate the way that phosphate can. __________________ Jonathan Bertoni