Bio Balls: Yeah or Neah

[Pan]

A neat way to maintain bioballs in your overflow is to make little levels with egg crate. You make like a tower with different floors attach some high strength fishing line...like ocean fishing line and pull it up and clean a different floor each month. People just don't like them because you have to clean them.

[Aquattro]

In my opinion, if you have a reef tank with a pound per gallon of rock and a sand bed (or even forget the sandbed), you do not need supplemental biological filtration. It will only add to the NO3 that your rock is working hard at removing. Next water change, pull half. Water change after that, remove the rest, send them to Calgary.

[fencer]

I agree if you don't backflush your bioball tank once in a while you potentially do have nitrate sink. One other fact about using bioballs is that they contribute to oxygenation of the water by have high surface area. Although I have never measured the REDOX potential with and without them. True a GOOD skimmer can also do the same thing.

[Captainhemo]

Gonna start pulling them out tomorrow. EmilyB, I want to make sure things are stable before I get rid of the BioBalls

[phillybean]

Are you from Kelowna hemo? If so, I have a old (it is old) 33 gallon you could make a sump out of. I was going to use it for mine until I got my hands on a 55 gallon. We can do it NHL style, a trade for "future frag considerations"

[Captainhemo]

Originally Posted by phillybean

Are you from Kelowna hemo? If so, I have a old (it is old) 33 gallon you could make a sump out of. I was going to use it for mine until I got my hands on a 55 gallon. We can do it NHL style, a trade for "future frag considerations"

Hey Phillybean, yeah I am in Kelowna and do appreciate the offer but a tank inst the problem. I just dont have the room to get a 33gal under/inside my stand (I've actually got 2 33 gal sitting in the closet that I'm not using ). It'd be great if one of them would actually fit