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01-23-2008, 03:59 AM
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| | Spanish Shawl Nudibranch
Join Date: Feb 2007
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 |  Do I really need the AquaClear 110 ?
I have a 75g reef that has a prizm pro skimmer, about 80 lbs of rock both live and base (going to be adding another 20lbs of base within the next week) and the aquaclear. Do I really need to keep the filter? It is a PITA to clean and swap out the carbon and sponge. Some have said I can get rid of it and others say no. I only have a few small fish : scooter, mandarin, pair of pink skunks, coral beauty, pair of Pj's, yellowhead and a shrimp gobie. The usual snails, hermits, couple shrimp and an emerald crab for bubble algae. I keep only softies and mushrooms. Is it feasible to ditch the filter? | 
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01-23-2008, 04:08 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: TN Age: 31
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The choise is yours if you dont have a sump, but its a great place to run carbon, I run it 24/7. _________ [center]Renaming Our Corals "Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it." Andre Gide | |
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01-23-2008, 04:29 PM
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| | Eyelash Blennie
Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: valencia,pa. Age: 35
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yes,i'd keep it.i had a prizm skimmer and a aquaclear 110 just on a 29 gallon tank and i always found lots of junk in the filter at cleaning time.
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55 gallon reef with 4x54 watt t5,29 gallon sump,red monti cap,1blue echinophyllia,trumpet,red lobo,2 toadstools 1purple and 1neon,gsp,xenia and yellow xenia,red ,many mushrooms,2 giant frilly shrooms,cabbage coral,yellow polyps,many zoos,1 orange and one neon green nepthia,duncans,cladiella | |
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01-23-2008, 07:10 PM
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| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: St. Paul/Woodbury, Minnesota Age: 50
Posts: 1,181
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Here's what you can do with the sponge. Cut it in half so there is a top and bottom piece. The bottom piece will always have the most junk. When you clean the filter, remove the bottom piece and clean it and place the piece that was on top, on the bottom of the filter. Then place the cleaned piece on top of this. _________ 75g reef with Nova Extreme 8 bulb HO T-5 lighting, refuge, Remora skimmer, DSB, Seio powerheads, Acro's, LPS corals, assorted zoo's & mushrooms, Yellow Tang, Maroon Clown, Blue Cleaner Goby , Cleaner, Fire and Sexy Shrimp, Coco Worm, T.Crocea Clam, Derasa Clam
120g FOWLR, 260w Orbit power compact lights, Remora Pro skimmer, 30g DIY Sump/Refuge, DSB,Seio Power heads, Powder Blue Tang, Purple Tang, Flag Fin Angel, False Eye Puffer, Copperbanded Butterfly and a Moorish Idol  | |
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01-23-2008, 08:19 PM
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| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Baltimore, MD Age: 47
Posts: 1,181
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To run carbon I use a phosphate reactor...There is really no need for a filter, actually, if you are not careful maintaining this type of filter nitrates will leach into the water. Once the carbon is spent there is the potential for there to be adverse effects on your system...  _________ 72 gallon bowed 150lbs LR 60 lbs LS
2 Percs
1 Chevron Tang
Hippo Tang
Six Line Wrasse
Coral Banded Shrimp
Cleaner Shrimp
Starry Blenny
4 Lyretail Anthias
Long Polyp Toadstool
Montipora
Long Tentacle Anenome
Short tentacle plate
Pulsing Xenia
Green Star polyps
Frogspawn
29 gallon
2 Clown
1 Coral Beauty
1 Fairy Wrasse
24 FOWLR
Dwarf Lion
125 gallon African Cichlid Tank http://home.comcast.net/~pizzal/index.html
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01-24-2008, 04:19 AM
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| | Spanish Shawl Nudibranch
Join Date: Feb 2007
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Would it be more beneficial to turn it into a fuge? I saw where someone had cut the basket up to act as a "catch" so the chaeto wouldn't go into the the main tank. They also made a baffle of sorts to keep the u-tube area separate from the main body. This was done using epoxy to make the side of the original basket higher to reduce heavy flow. My only concern would be that my lighting system ( 4x65w) wouldn't produce sufficient light for the chaeto to grow. I have a sump on my 210g fowlr that has chateo so getting that would be no problem. I am just trying to find a simpler way for maintenance that ditches the sponge for nitrate issues. | |
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