hedonic
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Originally Posted by birdguy
I'm pretty new to the hobby, but worked in the freshwater aquaculture industry for about 10 years. Maybe I'm missing something .... but why not put bioballs in your filter ?? The nitrate that you'll get will come from the conversion of more toxic nitrite won't it ?? Back on the old "fish farm" we were delighted to see nitrate after start-up, because it meant that the biofiltration was reaching maturity. Am I all wet ?? Like I said I'm pretty new to this saltwater stuff.
You are right but you skipped a step. The bio-balls eventually will house the benificial bacteria that converts ammonia to nitrite then to nitrate. But the setup time, and how to go about it is what they are talking about here. I used tap water to set my tank then used RO/DI for all water changes since at everything has been fine. There are ways to get hard metals/phosphates out after there in... water changes. Even in setting up clients tanks with nothing but RO water, they still get algae blooms. I think, to some extent, they are unavoidable.
I'm pretty new to the hobby, but worked in the freshwater aquaculture industry for about 10 years. Maybe I'm missing something .... but why not put bioballs in your filter ?? The nitrate that you'll get will come from the conversion of more toxic nitrite won't it ?? Back on the old "fish farm" we were delighted to see nitrate after start-up, because it meant that the biofiltration was reaching maturity. Am I all wet ?? Like I said I'm pretty new to this saltwater stuff.
You are right but you skipped a step. The bio-balls eventually will house the benificial bacteria that converts ammonia to nitrite then to nitrate. But the setup time, and how to go about it is what they are talking about here. I used tap water to set my tank then used RO/DI for all water changes since at everything has been fine. There are ways to get hard metals/phosphates out after there in... water changes. Even in setting up clients tanks with nothing but RO water, they still get algae blooms. I think, to some extent, they are unavoidable.
