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jcrim
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I have a refugium arriving any day now and am wondering how long it will take to be established enough to actually benefit my aquarium. There is also an established wet/dry and protein skimmer on the tank.
glowinafus
New Member
with having a refugeum on the tank WITH the wetdry, will it still keep the nitrates down to almost 0? Or will the wetdry create too many nitrates for the fuge to work in that area?
Thanks in advance,
Glowinafuse
Thanks in advance,
Glowinafuse
squidd
Active Member
That's kind of what I was getting at in the last post...
Again depending on how and with what the fuge is set up (and it's effective size) it will remove nitrates from the system....however..
If it's too small the effect may not be noticeable or measurable....
If it's just "marginal" ..it may only be able to keep them from "rising" rather than lower them...
If there are other factors (nitrate producers) working against it it may not be able to keep up...
If other "good husbandry" techniques are not employed (good skimmer, low bioload, adaquate clean up crew, regular partial WCs, etc..) effectiveness will be compromised...
On the other hand, I have my tanks set up with large sumps, larger "Algal Scrubber" fuges, Killer skimmers, occasional carbon runs, and adaquate LR...and have "0" algae problems in either tank..."0" nitrates in the reef and consistantly less than 15 in my 210 Aggressive which has Large fish, minimal clean up crew (they keep getting eaten) and is fed about a 1/2 lb of "meat" a week...
Again depending on how and with what the fuge is set up (and it's effective size) it will remove nitrates from the system....however..
If it's too small the effect may not be noticeable or measurable....
If it's just "marginal" ..it may only be able to keep them from "rising" rather than lower them...
If there are other factors (nitrate producers) working against it it may not be able to keep up...
If other "good husbandry" techniques are not employed (good skimmer, low bioload, adaquate clean up crew, regular partial WCs, etc..) effectiveness will be compromised...
On the other hand, I have my tanks set up with large sumps, larger "Algal Scrubber" fuges, Killer skimmers, occasional carbon runs, and adaquate LR...and have "0" algae problems in either tank..."0" nitrates in the reef and consistantly less than 15 in my 210 Aggressive which has Large fish, minimal clean up crew (they keep getting eaten) and is fed about a 1/2 lb of "meat" a week...
glowinafus
New Member
wow... Thats awesome...
Its getting more clear to me now..
Its getting more clear to me now..