swarvegorilla wrote:
"George Patterson" wrote in message
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KurtG wrote:


Hm, good ideas.... I have a dry/wet setup right now and it's obviously
not working. Maybe I should just rip it out and rely on the protein
skimmer and my live rock (which I have copious quantities of). I could
also upgrade my power heads.

I had an Eheim Wet/dry filter. I now have about 130 pounds of live rock in
a 125 gallon tank with a Tunze 6060, which generates 1600 gph flow. I was
originally intending to keep the Eheim running, but it sprang a leak.

The nitrites remain at 0. The nitrates build up at about the same rate as
they did with the Eheim. Based on this, I would definitely recommend the
course of action you're considering.

Based on what that other annoying little troll said, I will probably try
realigning the Tunze to produce more turbulence.

George Patterson
No one ever says "It's only a game." when his team is winning.



I love me trickles and biomedia filled sumps
yea I water change to get rid of nitrates
anyway, have setup a deepsandbed for a mate in his new 6 footer
not sure if it's gonna help
but went and dug a hole at the beach
actually collected stinky blackened sand
and layered the sand bed in the tank
not sure if it's going to speed it up much
but can but hope.

Most of my marine
are very overstocked with fish
and lots of biological filters are needed
only now am I moving into
the reef style tank

Depends on what you call "overstocked"

right now my 20 gal has:
1 yellow tang (yep - yellow tang in a twenty - doing well at that!)
2 ocellaris
1 red scooter "blenny" dragonette
2 large hawaiian fether dusters
about 1 sq foot of xooanthid polyps (5 different types)
1 indonesian cleaner shrimp
1 peppermint shrimp
1 mythrax crab
5 blue leg hermits
4 astreas
6 ceriths
2 tonga conchs..

And to especially help nitrates:
2 tridacna maximas
1 tridacns derasa
2 stalks of pink and whit xenia



So I am going to try the LR and powerhead technique
yea have a nice skimmer as well
but main difference is the big reduction in bioload

More impotrant to have an OFFSET bioload - add things that eat the waste
of the other things.

super understocked
but I tells ya
they are some happy shrimps!

One question tho....
for a deepsand bed
should I be worried about excessive worm life?

nah.

only been a month and they have made tunnels all thru it

Yup.

well can't see right at the bottem
but there is a lot more than I have ever had before
bristles and others
I know they are good normally for moving o2 thru sand
but thats not desirable is this case?...?

Deepends. How deep is deep for your deep sand bed?