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I have one and am considering getting rid of it in favor of a larger fuge, good or bad idea and why?
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Wet / Dry ?
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What type of setup are you using the wet dry for??? Reef? Fish only? I have one myself on my 500 gallon FOWLR shark setup and it stands 4 feet high. I use it for suppplemental biological filtration and especially for gas exchange capabilities. Personally I don't care for refugiums. They never worked out for me and I never saw the benefit from them accept an extra tank to clean.
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In a reef would thier be any negative effects from using said wet dry
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I used to work in a public aquarium and we had two major reef systems. One soft dominant coral reef exhibit as well as a seperate acropora sps dominant coral reef. Both of these exhibits were run off wet dry systems with bioballs. We kept the bioballs clean from ditrtus and we never saw a spike in nitrate levels. But with policy we had to keep the wet dry filters as the main part of filtration. Thats all you have to do is keep the bioballs clean from large particles of food etc. Wet drys also keep the oxygen levels up as well from gas exchange. But in another case if you have enough liverock in your tank at least 1 to 1.5 pounds per gallon, you don't need the wet dry unless you are planning on keeping a shoal of tangs in your reef where the extra biological filtration would be required. How big is your system???
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My system is quite small at this point; however, I'm building a cabinet in the garage to house an improved filter setup and I am trying to decide what of my old system I should keep, what I should upgrade and what I should cull. I have essentially unlimited space so with that in mind I'll probably keep the wet/dry
This is preparation for a larger tank in the future.
Denver area?
This is preparation for a larger tank in the future.
Denver area?
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Yeah I live here in Lakewood... Anyway with a small system then you can use the wetdry as a sump and pull the bioballs out if you have enough liverock. But I am not sure if you are doing a reef or FOWLR setup. I have the FOWLR with a few leather corals and some mushrooms for asthetics but the system houses one leapord shark, 1 bamboo shark, 12 inch Emporer Angel and some other surgeonfishes. So I have a huge bioload that demands a large wet dry system. It defenetly helps since these fish excrete a lot of waste.
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Yeah I live here in Lakewood... Anyway with a small system then you can use the wetdry as a sump and pull the bioballs out if you have enough liverock. But I am not sure if you are doing a reef or FOWLR setup. I have the FOWLR with a few leather corals and some mushrooms for asthetics but the system houses one leapord shark, 1 bamboo shark, 12 inch Emporer Angel and some other surgeonfishes. So I have a huge bioload that demands a large wet dry system. It defenetly helps since these fish excrete a lot of waste.
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I grew up in congerss park, my mom still lives there. 12" Emporer wow how big is your tank? Where were you a aquarium life support engineer? At the Denver Aquarium?
i like the wet dry in first tray i have a floss sheet 2nd try is carbon and phsoban thats it as mentioned the gas exchange is great the water has time to mix with air alot of sumps dont do that and who can be bothered with another tank to care for i would and will stay with wet dry no bio balls though
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Like Troyman, I have a wet/dry on my 75. Here's how I have it set up, from the top down: Filter pad, carbon bags and phosban, LR rubble and sintered glass cylinders. There's also a prefilter pad in my overflow that I'm diligent about rinsing out every day. This setup is on a 75 FOWLR that is a biotope type tank with all locally collected critters.
Yeah I have a 500 gallon acrylic tank. I have a few large peices of live rock for decoration but need the space for the sharks to swim. The emperor is 12 inches long and still growing. I have good luck with him growing because I am obsessed with keeping my nitrates down. And yes I did work for Ocean Journey at the time as a life support engineer, which is now The Downtown aquarium of Denver owned and operated by Landry's restaurants. It is one hell of an operation down there.
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Is their any way I could get a tour of the filtration system of the Downtown aquarium of Denver? Once when I was there I asked, but none of the people who I talked to were very interested in finding out about that for me.
The Downtown Aquarium is under tight security clearance and they usually don't let anyone in especially after 9/11.... But I do believe they are providing some behind the scenes tours on appointment. You might not be able to see absolutly everything but give them a call to find out. They even have a program now where you can get diving lessons and scuba dive in the 350,000 gallon sea of pacific exhibit.
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Thanks Marc, I appreciate the info.
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Marc,
do you use a DSB, sulfur reactor or something like that to keep nitrates down
do you use a DSB, sulfur reactor or something like that to keep nitrates down
Funny that you ask, I am actually looking into a sulfur reactor. I was looking into to the Korallin Biodenitrator. I was going to build my own but with all the materials collected as well as the media, it would cost as much as a new one. I think I may go with the Korallin biodenitrator. I rufuse to do a deep sand bed as it is to slow to deal with a large bioload that I have.
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I really enjoy building this stuff. After I finish the calcium reactor I am currently working on I was thinking about a sulfur reactor. I wasn’t sure if that was the way to go but it sounds like it is. I do allot of metal fabrication (I build land cruisers small ones and really big ones sorry you may not advertise here~dc so its somewhat relaxing for me to work with acrylics and other plastics and I have access to lathes, mills and other fabrication tools
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good water changes keeps that under control you dont need all that stuff for the size tanks you all have i have simple equipment a wet dry filter skimmer heater chiller and light 3x250 halides and 8x32 whatt t5s i do testing every couple days water chqanges weekly all is very happy no work at all
