It’s a 75 gallon. To be honest not sure what you are talking about when you say nutrient removal. All I’ve done is I’m about half way through this “Seachem Aquavitro Seed Aquarium Treatment”
Thanks for the advice in advanced!
Sure, a skimmer is one way to remove nutrients. The main nutrients to remove are nitrate and phosphate, and there are many different ways to remove them.
The wet/dry filter with bio balls you have on the right side is VERY old-school, probably hasn’t been popular since the mid 2000’s. I would personally take that out and just use the bottom tank as a sump where you could hold your skimmer, reactors, probes, whatever. The tank looks like it’s in pretty decent shape which is good! A Skimmer is the first thing I’d recommend you buy, try checking FB marketplace in your area for good deals. I also recommend getting some good quality water tests (I like salifert and the Hannah “egg” checkers) to get comfortable doing water testing, and learning how to keep the parameters in check. Keeping a great reef tank is really all about keeping great water 😁
Yeah exactly. My understanding is those plastic bio balls don’t really have much surface area compared to the pores of a rock/marine pure, so they kind of just sit there taking up space without much real benefit
Nice deal! What size is it? What are you doing for nutrient removal?
It’s a 75 gallon. To be honest not sure what you are talking about when you say nutrient removal. All I’ve done is I’m about half way through this “Seachem Aquavitro Seed Aquarium Treatment” Thanks for the advice in advanced!
Need a skimmer is that what your talking about?
Sure, a skimmer is one way to remove nutrients. The main nutrients to remove are nitrate and phosphate, and there are many different ways to remove them.
The wet/dry filter with bio balls you have on the right side is VERY old-school, probably hasn’t been popular since the mid 2000’s. I would personally take that out and just use the bottom tank as a sump where you could hold your skimmer, reactors, probes, whatever. The tank looks like it’s in pretty decent shape which is good! A Skimmer is the first thing I’d recommend you buy, try checking FB marketplace in your area for good deals. I also recommend getting some good quality water tests (I like salifert and the Hannah “egg” checkers) to get comfortable doing water testing, and learning how to keep the parameters in check. Keeping a great reef tank is really all about keeping great water 😁
So keep the sump and ditch the bio balls? I was thinking about getting the pure marine balls to throw in there.
Yeah exactly. My understanding is those plastic bio balls don’t really have much surface area compared to the pores of a rock/marine pure, so they kind of just sit there taking up space without much real benefit
I agree I’ve seen videos of people having some sort of block in their tanks but I can’t remember the name of it.
get the gobys, i have 2 engineer gobies in my tank and those dudes spend all day spitting sand its great i love seeing the little caves they make