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Just straight up ditch the foam.
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09-15-2006, 02:59 AM
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Just to play devils advocate...
Sugar.
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09-15-2006, 03:16 AM
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09-17-2006, 03:45 PM
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tanks: 120g w/starphire front, pm bullet 2 skimmer, yellow tang, emperor angel, niger trigger, spotted hawkfish, blue tang, flame angel and 120lbs lr
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09-17-2006, 04:13 PM
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If you have a lot of spare time you can read this http://reefcentral.com/forums/showth...5&pagenumber=1 My next tank will have a sandbed filter similar to these, only bigger.
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09-17-2006, 04:44 PM
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Just from my experience, 6 out of 10 people who start with a sandbed will quit their tank before a year has elapsed.
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09-17-2006, 05:31 PM
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Well I didn't quit and still have one tank (230g) with a deep sand bed.......but if I had to do it all over again I wouldn't have one. All my other tanks are BB and I will probably eventually remove the sand from the 230g.
Sand and foam are evil. Every tank I have ever had a foam in has had high nitrates - remove the foam and the nitrates fell. Even though I was rinsing the heck out of the foam every week or even 2 times a week I still stuggled with nitrates. Not that they have totally disappeared but at least they are managable with water changes twice a month.
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09-17-2006, 06:21 PM
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Nitrates
I have found and heard from others that reef roids will increase you nitrates if used too often. Not sure if you use this or not but just a thought. Also like Albert mentioned , removing all sponge will help. You could replace the sponge with other media like a filter sock with some phosban or something like that for a few days every other week.
Cheers, Sammy
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09-17-2006, 07:59 PM
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What is wrong with sand?
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