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You're a sick Mo'Fo Brad. Love to meet you some time!

Your tank continues to blow me away. Just awesome.

Hey Brad, Marc is correct. Denitrators can die off very quickly and then cause a crash. If I were to run one, it would definitely have back-up power. (I don't think I ever would though, unless I was running a cold water tank.) I don't know about the "30 minute" thing as that seems a bit arbitrary, but based on the images and videos of your system, I would hazard to guess you do a lot of things "right" so the load on the denitrator is not very heavy. In less experienced hands, any kind of advanced equipment can FUBAR. So someone might read about denitrators, see your success, and try to emulate that. But their knowledge base is not what yours is, and they could easily nuke their tank.

Thank you guys for the compliments. I did not know that about the denitrators. I do know that I have to watch mine and check it everyday because it builds up air/gas in it and if not purged, the pump will eventually run dry.
About every other day I have to use my skimmer venturi to purge the air.

I also have a live camera on my tank. That way when I'm out of town I can still check on it from my phone or my laptop.
Here is the address if you want to see it live.

http://192.168.1.105:8080/CgiStart?p...gle&Language=0