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01-09-2008, 06:37 PM
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| | Stylophora
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Quebec City
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hey luna in your wet/dry do you have liverock or bio balls , many people are saying these bioballs are a nitrate factory could it be this. _________ 
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2 DIY fluidized reactors Carbon & ROWAphos
LIghts- 2x 50/50 atinics T10's , 2x life gro T10's ,
1x20,000K T12, 1x6,000K T10.
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01-09-2008, 06:41 PM
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#12 (permalink)
| | Panda Puffer
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Tatamy, PA Age: 15
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Maybe you need to watch your fish all day and catch all their turds before they get to the bottom of the tank......LOL, J/K! _________  | |
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01-09-2008, 06:56 PM
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#13 (permalink)
| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Miami, FL Age: 39
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Originally Posted by Nemo 22  maybe 1 or 2 fish over but i dont think it would affect it that much.why not invest in something like a clam that keeps nitrates low?or anything else that does | I do have a clam _________ 9YR OLD 90G/55g custom sump/refug Mag18 Aquac 180skimmer 692w MH AC jr,yel&kole tang,midas&convict blenny,B&G chromies,Blk/yel fin chromie blackcap,nemo,neon goby,6line; Blastomussa Merleti,Acan ,BUBBLE,Torch,LTA, Acropora(2) Moon, assort zoas, yel& G star polyps, P&B ricordia, montiporas, cup&candy corals, xenias,B/G mush,flower ane(2), cherry red mussa, dusters,cleaning crew..  | |
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01-09-2008, 07:03 PM
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#14 (permalink)
| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Miami, FL Age: 39
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Originally Posted by wastemanagement hey luna in your wet/dry do you have liverock or bio balls , many people are saying these bioballs are a nitrate factory could it be this. | I have bio balls.
I have thought about that too, but think about this. My amnonia and nitrites are ALWAYS at zero, which means that it is working properly. The LR and LS are also doing there share. I know ppl that have had bio balls for 12 yrs without even cleaning them, let along, replacing them. | |
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01-09-2008, 07:08 PM
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#15 (permalink)
| | Stylophora
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Quebec City
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yea I am still not sold on the debate on bioballs it seens you either lovem or hatem im not sure on my stand yet still too green on the issue | |
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01-09-2008, 07:13 PM
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#16 (permalink)
| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: TN Age: 31
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Its your convict blenny aka engineer goby. They keep the sand so stirred up that nothing has time to settle in. I got rid of mine when it started covering corals with sand. _________ Got Questions? Need Answers?
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01-09-2008, 07:15 PM
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| | Coral Banded Shrimp
Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Orlando,Fl.
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nice theory geek.that makes sense to ya too he is big for 10 inches too | |
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01-09-2008, 07:30 PM
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#18 (permalink)
| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Miami, FL Age: 39
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Originally Posted by geekdafied Its your convict blenny aka engineer goby. They keep the sand so stirred up that nothing has time to settle in. I got rid of mine when it started covering corals with sand. | one in the same geek. yes. He has many names. he moves the sand a little but not to that extent. | |
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01-09-2008, 07:40 PM
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#19 (permalink)
| | Feather Duster
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Fairport, NY
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BioBalls are very very good at performing the nitrogen cycle. In a reef you dont need that so much. Start pulling them a little bit at a time and I bet you a nickel that your nitrates start coming down. Your liverock will take up the slack if you do it slowly.
If it doesn't work then throw 'um back in.
BTW can we please throw that old inch per gallon thing out. Its such a ridiculous broad rule that its about as useful as a swing arm hydrometer. Really, do you think that a 180 could properly house a 60inch epaulette shark? Not likely. Not without a 180 gallon Wet/Dry. Or how about a 90 housing two 2 Volitan's Lionfish? Also not likely. Or a 90 holding a 16" Sohol Tang?
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01-10-2008, 07:16 AM
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#20 (permalink)
| | Coral Banded Shrimp
Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Orlando,Fl.
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maybe the combonation of 1 or 2 fish to much, the goby mixing the sand, maybe feeding a lil more just to make sure everyone eats, and the bioballs and to add one more maye not a variety of cleaners(sand cleaners, algae eating off glass and rock.)maybe all that dunno tho im clueless after that.  lol | |
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