hazzyeyed80
New Member
Hey everyone,
I love this site! Anyhow, I have a 55gal reef tank. Last week my filter quit on me! of course it was on a sunday so nothing was open! I finally got to the pet store on monday and bought a new smaller filter to just help out in getting things back to normal. Luckily I had powerheads in there as well, so it stayed fine being without a filter for a day. Question is that I put the substrate that was in the old filter into the new temporary one and fired it up. Everything is fine, but now I got the replacement 350gph filter...can i just ADD it to the system? Or will the fact that its new cause a spike later on when it starts to form biological on the new substrate etc?? Thanks
I love this site! Anyhow, I have a 55gal reef tank. Last week my filter quit on me! of course it was on a sunday so nothing was open! I finally got to the pet store on monday and bought a new smaller filter to just help out in getting things back to normal. Luckily I had powerheads in there as well, so it stayed fine being without a filter for a day. Question is that I put the substrate that was in the old filter into the new temporary one and fired it up. Everything is fine, but now I got the replacement 350gph filter...can i just ADD it to the system? Or will the fact that its new cause a spike later on when it starts to form biological on the new substrate etc?? Thanks
