Bio balls necessary with LR?

jlem

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Originally posted by Thomas712
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BTW did you ever put a background on that tank of yours?
Thomas

I did and it really looks good. I moved my whole system from Washington to my folks house in Northern California and then 3 months later moved it from my folks house to my house On Lemoore Navy base in central California. The only thing I lost was a brittle star. Once I download a free resize program I will do a thread with some pics. I am actually gonna start a frag tank because after 4+ years my tank is really getting crowded.
Tell me if I am wrong, but don't the bacteria that get rid of nitrates live in an enviroment with significantely less oxygen then the bacteria that take care of ammonia and nitrite. If what I just said was true then wouldn't only the nitrate produced in the narrow margin where one bacteria ends and the other start get taken care of rapidly and the rest of the nitrate that is produced in the upper layers disperse into the tank and just eventually find it's way to the deeper parts of the DSB and LR the same as nitrate produced from bioballs would.
I don't use bioballs because I don't want to clean them and the last thing I need is a sump springing a leak while I am deployed overseas. After 4+ years, my tank has pretty much found it's groove which means I touch as little as I possibly can to avoid jackin it up.
 
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