Jimmy Posted January 9, 2006 Report Share Posted January 9, 2006 What do you guys use? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetskisteve Posted January 9, 2006 Report Share Posted January 9, 2006 AY???? LIVE ROCK SKIMMER Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reef Posted January 9, 2006 Report Share Posted January 9, 2006 big wet dry filter with lots of bio balls. canister filter is also good filled with sponge and filter wool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy Posted January 9, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 9, 2006 Like canister filters ect. Not skimmers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy Posted January 9, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 9, 2006 Cause i dont think many people have them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brianemone Posted January 9, 2006 Report Share Posted January 9, 2006 a few use them to run carbon and stuff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chimera Posted January 9, 2006 Report Share Posted January 9, 2006 big wet dry filter with lots of bio balls. canister filter is also good filled with sponge and filter wool. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misnoma Posted January 9, 2006 Report Share Posted January 9, 2006 Undergravel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy Posted January 10, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 i think rossco is the only one i have seen with a filter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brianemone Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 out of the five tanks youve seen thats quite a high percentage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suphew Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 I use a fluval for Phos-sorb and ziolite Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 About 55 kilos of liverock, a deltec MCE600 and two Oceanwerx FR1-304s, one with antiphos and the other with carbon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tel Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 special filters but none on rollies.. oops forgot i gave up. 8) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rossco Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 My main filter system (as I see it) is rock, bacteria, and water movement. All cannisters really do is create a more efficient way of moving the water over a greater surface area of man made rock. I've added skimmer/s mainly cause the missus has added more protein factories and I couldn't sleep at night waiting for the tank to 'crash'. Now I'm going for the natural turbid high bacteria marine environment look (lots of fishies and not so many SPSs at this stage) Hope we will still be able to see the fish and things... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkey Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 If you use a cannister filter with filter wool and or sponge Make sure you clean reqularly and wash in your tank water not tap (Or you will kill the good bacteria that will be growing in the sponge). Good when your starting a tank But cos the inside is out of site, its out of mind. If you leave it dirty it will break down and start to pollute your tank. How bigs the Tank and how many fish? What corals are you looking at getting? Do you test ? What are your readings? Sorry to sound like a cop with all the questions but want to get the full picture.I used to have bio balls and canister filter but have slowly changed to a berlin style tank which sounds like thats they way you want to go? But if the tank is young I think its a good idea to have the canister on there to get the bacteria levels up untill your rock can devalope. But there are so many options when it comes to filtration it really comes down to what you want to acheive tank size and fish load. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pies Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 Sharky - You are aware that filter wool and sponges in saltwater will create excess nitrates after approximatly 5 days of submersion? This is why no-one uses them. If you MUST use filter wool certainly don't try and preserve the bacterria, replace the wool before it goes biological. Pie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chimera Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 so true. and filter wool is still GREAT to use every now and then to take out solid (larger than skimmable) matter from the water column. i wrapped a stocking fill of carbon in a piece of filter wool and my water is the clearest it's been in ages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Posted January 11, 2006 Report Share Posted January 11, 2006 If you do use filter wool and sponges I'd say it would be better to clean them in tap water if yours is heavily chlorinated. Keeps them from becoming biological instead of just straight mechnaical filtration. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rossco Posted January 11, 2006 Report Share Posted January 11, 2006 Just to clarify my understanding...wouldn't the nitrate production aided by the wool/fibre be the end product of the normal tank nitrogen cycle anyway ie the wool etc just hastens the conversion of nitrite to nitrate? Or is it 'additional' nitrate (from where?) that the cycle wouldn't normally have produced anyway. Rinsing filters would be a good way to export waste as long as the negatives don't outweigh the postive... :-? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Feelers Posted January 11, 2006 Report Share Posted January 11, 2006 A guy with a 200g cuttlefish tank on Tonmo uses a bioball tower and hasn't cleaned it out for 3 years - flows still good and never has a problem with nitrates(undetectable). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetskisteve Posted January 11, 2006 Report Share Posted January 11, 2006 A guy jumped off the Aucland harbour bridge & lived Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cracker Posted January 11, 2006 Report Share Posted January 11, 2006 Was that in the last couple of days steve? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Feelers Posted January 11, 2006 Report Share Posted January 11, 2006 A dude jumped off the taupo bungy!!! That would be somewhat scary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brianemone Posted January 11, 2006 Report Share Posted January 11, 2006 rossco in response to your question(and nothing to do with bridges ) basicly the foam/filter wool is so effective at breaking down to nitrate that it will spike and rise it too fast and your rock will not be able to cope with the elevated levels. high nitrates=bad for corals and fish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasp Posted January 11, 2006 Report Share Posted January 11, 2006 A guy with a 200g cuttlefish tank on Tonmo uses a bioball tower and hasn't cleaned it out for 3 years - flows still good and never has a problem with nitrates(undetectable). I too have a bioball tower, in my case it's a big heap of bioballs in my overflow. This is because my nitrates were so close to absolute zero that stuff including corals couldn't grow, the bioball tower is to try to get some nitrates, although they are still undetectable, salifert. However this cuttlefish guy must have something else in his tank or management that is removing the nitrate, it would not be possible for him to still have zero nitrate with a bioball tower and nothing else, unless the bioball tower was running anaerobically. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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