You can always take the bioballs out later, but since you
have it now, you might as well use it, as it will make
things more stable in the begining.

Why a deep water reef? What's your plans there?

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets



Mark Henry wrote on 12/13/2005 11:11 AM:
Wayne Sallee wrote:

Also instead of getting a wet dry filter, you should have put a sump
in there, as a wet dry filter will reduce your denitrification


Again, there's pros and cons to both sides of the wet/dry vs sump
discussion. I bought what I could afford, based on the advice of several
professionals as well as numerous reference materials and will see how
it works.

and you would have been beter off to have gotten more lighting over
the tank. I would have gone with a double mh 175 wat giving it a total
of 350 wats of light over 65 gallons being 5.38 wats of light per gallon.


True, more light is usually better. Unless of course you're shooting for
a deeper water reef as opposed to a shallow water - which is what I'm
attempting to do.

Thanks for your suggestions and commentary.

mark h