Treatment (a)Experiment 1 (b)Experiment 2 (c) Experiment 3 (d) Experiment 4 (e) Experiment5 (e) Experiment6 Effect of pH % of removal Effect of Time (Minutes) %of removal Effect of beads Density (Numbers) % of removal Effect of biomass concentration (Grams) % of removal Effect of Time &biomass Concentration % of removal Nutrients in the textile waste water %of removal Reactors 1 0.32 30 13.81 25 6.06 0.1 41.08 C/30 28.23 Phosphate 38.22 2 0.87 60 15.43 50 10.31 0.5 23.78 C/60 33.85 Nitrate 96.09 3 1.1 90 16.24 75 12.2 1 22.59 C/90 35.19 Nitrite 68.40 4 2.46 120 28.35 100 7.17     C/120 36.06 Ammonia 5.53 5 4.05     125 4.57     0.1/30 30.46 Silicate 18.67 6 5.48     150 0.63     0.1/60 32.70     7 6.91             0.1/90 35.95     8 8.26             0.1/120 56.84     9 8.02             0.5/30 22.72     10 4.05             0.5/60 34.59                     0.5/90 36.03                     0.5/120 36.24                     1.0/30 21.04                     1.0/60 27.52                     1.0/90 29.76                     1.0/120 34.74

Note: C denotes control

Table 1: Summary of the treatment efficiencies (percentage of removal) of the different types of reactors (Effect of pH: 1 to 10; Effect of time: 30, 60, 90 and 120 minutes; Effect of beads density: 25, 50, 75, 100, 125 and 150 numbers; Effect of biomass concentration: 0.1, 0.5 and 1.0 g) for the four experiments using seagrass Cymodocea rotundata beads.