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05-31-2005, 10:32 PM
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| | Spaghetti Worm
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Denver, CO,Colorado
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 |  Wet/Dry into a refuge?
Anyone heard of converting a wet/dry filter into a refugium? I think my wet/dry must be the culprit of my nitrates - I do water changes, clean and replace filters, my skimmer is running 24x7, I feed very sparingly (as I've been told to because of my nitrates), I use RO/DI water now and still have nitrates in the 40 ppm range. So, after hearing a couple times that wet/dry's are nitrate factories, I've decided maybe I should try and convert it to a fuge or sump (not sure the difference). Anyone have pointers on how to do this? What needs to be done?
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55 gal glass tank, 2 power heads, wet/dry filter, protein skimmer, 50 lbs live rock, pair of tomato clowns, 1 royal gramma, 1 coral beauty angel, 1 six line wrasse, 1 peppermint shrimp, 1 skunk cleaner shrimp, 12 assorted snails (astrea/turbo), 15 assorted hermit crabs, green bubble tip anemone, red mushrooms, yellow polyps, 1 green leather, green star polyps, yellow toadstool | 
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06-01-2005, 08:13 AM
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| | Coral Banded Shrimp
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Illinois Age: 30
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| Re: Wet/Dry into a refuge?
Yes it is very popular to convert wet dry's into a fuge's, however you must be very careful when removing your bio balls because they contain much of your tanks beneficial bacteria right now. It is recommended that you remove the bio balls a little each week and replace them with liverock rubble.
Also I noticed in a previous post that you have 40# of liverock in a 65 gallon. It's recommended that you have around 2# per gallon of liverock especially in a systems that rely on the LR for stabalization and filteration.
JMO....others may think differently.
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90 gallon reef, mag 1800 main return pump, 10 gallon refugium + 10 gallon sump, CPR overflows, ASM G-1 skimmer, icecap 660 vho 440 watts. 130#LR and 60#LS. Corals: Finger Leather, Fat Finger Leather, Toadstool, flower pot sps coral, hairy mushrooms. Fish: Yellow tang, Bi-color angel, pecula clowns, royal gramma, coral beauty angel, yellow tail damsel, blue damsel, Sergeant Major Damsel. Misc. hermit crabs, snails, flame scallop, Xenia | |
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06-01-2005, 12:08 PM
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| | Spaghetti Worm
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Denver, CO,Colorado
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| Re: Wet/Dry into a refuge?
I plan on adding about 20 pounds of live rock (actually base rock) to the display tank. Will this suffice you think? | |
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06-01-2005, 02:03 PM
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| | Fire Worm
Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Clifton, NJ,New_Jersey
Posts: 156
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| Re: Wet/Dry into a refuge?
why not make a de-nitrate coil to help with the nitrates. I have a wet/dry filter and a de-nitrate coil and my readings are 0 ppm. I will post some pictures of my coil that i just built. Its my second one. They are so easy to build, at about $30.
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10/26/04:72 bow w/160lbs Fiji Rock, 2-250w MH, 2 96w 03 PC, 4 lunar lights,150 gal. wet/dry filter with built in protein skimmer,4-620 seio,1 Aquaclear 201 power head.100lbs of live sand,9w Turbo Twist. | |
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06-01-2005, 02:43 PM
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| | Spaghetti Worm
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Denver, CO,Colorado
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| Re: Wet/Dry into a refuge?
I thought about the coil, and I got scared off - sounded like if you didn't get it right one way or the other with how much water goes in, you get bad stuff back out. Plus, I've heard nothing but good things about sumps/fuges. Does anyone out there think one is better than another (between sump/fuge and denitrator coils)? | |
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