Help with stupid idea. Media reactors.

[andrew james]

First let me state that I'm addicted to filter media. I' adding onto my system soon and need to think about filtration. My system which include a 90 gal display, a 30 gal nem tank. and a 22gal sump. I run 1 cubic foot of cerMedia Marine Pure cubes in a high flow area and two 1.5l reactors with stacked siporax run off my return manifold doing 100gph.

I'll be getting rid of the 22gal. sump and adding a 60g frag tank and a 150gal rubbermaid trough sump. For my new setup I'm thinking of daisy chaining 10 media reactors together with either Siporax or to save some money Seachem Matrix. for a total of 15 liters of filter media. I've found that one liter of Siporax in a reactor will support about 50 gallons with heavy bio load, no live rock needed.

My question to anyone that might know or have experience with larger amounts of this stuff. Are these numbers linear? If 1L supports 50Gal with 10L support 500?

Is this idea stupid and should I approach it differently?

 

[Diesel]

That is a good question if you ask me but going from 1L media reactor to 10L media reactors is over kill if you ask me.
Good question for a scientist @Randy Holmes-Farley

 

[GoVols]

Tagging along, could be a nitrate cooker.
Randy don't hurt me.

 

[andrew james]

Right now Im running 3l Siporax and 2 Cubic feet of Marine Block on 140 gallon total system. I also run a stacked reactor with Zeomix, GAC and PhosMinus at 40 GPH. My N03 is a very stable at 2 ppm and PO4 hovers between 8-10 ppb. I do very little carbon dosing either, on my current 140 gallon system I dose 10ml of AF NP pro or two drops per day as well as 2 drop Pro Bio S. Maybe if you put this stuff in a low flow area it might hold enough waste to raise nitrate but in a reactor the stuff is awesome. I really want to know how much I need in reactors when I triple my water volume.