Paradox
Guest
So Ive been wanting to change part of my setup. When designing the tank, it was initially supposed to house Sepia officinalis. Large cuttlefish. I was going for minimal reef and definitely not SPS. I had a source for them at the time, but events caused this source to not be fruitful. While being bored with just staring at rocks, I started acquiring corals and got bit by the reef bug again. That was about 8 months ago.
So since my initial design was to house large waste producing cuttlefish, I had a DIY trickle filter in my system. It is filled with bio bale. Since my development of my reef, I have always been thinking of taking this out, but since I also house a good number of smaller cuttlefish and enjoy less then advised amounts of live rock to keep things open, Im afraid I will not have enough bio filtration.
Upon reading about sulfer denitrators, I learned of this seachem product
http://www.seachem.com/products/product_pages/Matrix.html
Does anyone have any comments or experiences with this? If it does what it states, cant I replace the wet dry system im using with perhaps a fluidised reactor with this media?
Tank equipment
-150g display
-30gallon sump
-refugium in sump
-external Aqua-euro 365 skimmer modded with aquabee 200 pump for more air
-2x TLF reactors running GFO and Carbon
-Dual stage DIY CA reactor
My nitrates and phosphates read 0 through my tests, but I suspect I have some since I have a small amount of turf like algae on a few rocks and bubble algae that drives me nuts. I mainly want to get rid of this algae, which is whats prompting me to remove the bio bale nd replace with something I can clean easier.
Any comments, advise would be greatly appreciated.
You can see my setup here
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1245638
Although Its not up to date with some equipment.
So since my initial design was to house large waste producing cuttlefish, I had a DIY trickle filter in my system. It is filled with bio bale. Since my development of my reef, I have always been thinking of taking this out, but since I also house a good number of smaller cuttlefish and enjoy less then advised amounts of live rock to keep things open, Im afraid I will not have enough bio filtration.
Upon reading about sulfer denitrators, I learned of this seachem product
http://www.seachem.com/products/product_pages/Matrix.html
Does anyone have any comments or experiences with this? If it does what it states, cant I replace the wet dry system im using with perhaps a fluidised reactor with this media?
Tank equipment
-150g display
-30gallon sump
-refugium in sump
-external Aqua-euro 365 skimmer modded with aquabee 200 pump for more air
-2x TLF reactors running GFO and Carbon
-Dual stage DIY CA reactor
My nitrates and phosphates read 0 through my tests, but I suspect I have some since I have a small amount of turf like algae on a few rocks and bubble algae that drives me nuts. I mainly want to get rid of this algae, which is whats prompting me to remove the bio bale nd replace with something I can clean easier.
Any comments, advise would be greatly appreciated.
You can see my setup here
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1245638
Although Its not up to date with some equipment.