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What’s the best biological filter media for nitrate removal? I’ve seen a lot on the ceramic porous material, but I do t always trust what the products say. I have a nano reef, so I’m looking to add this media in the power filter.

How to Set Up a Refugium Inside Your Sump Hassle-free tips to set up a refugium inside your sump! All About That Sump - No Clutter Trigger Systems Sumps: Powerhouse Filter Boxes for Your Reef Tank

Give your tank a biological BOOST Add a refugium to improve biological filtration + grow pods for feeding! All About That Sump - No Clutter Add a Sump to Your Reef Tank Using an Overflow Box Q&A Series #4: What are the Benefits of a Refugium?

How to Grow Beneficial Bacteria for a Thriving Ecosystem Create the right conditions so Mother Nature can help clean your tank! The Best Ways to Cycle Your Reef Aquarium

Alright. Let me begin with giving you guys some details. I purchased a used JBJ 28G NanoCube with the live sand and live rock still in it, wet. I put the sand and rocks into a cooler and wiped/scrubbed the tank. Put everything back in and refilled the tank within 10 hours. I thought I might have...

So currently I have a mechanical filter that hangs on the side of my tank (like most have for freshwater). As recommended, it is powerful enough to clean a tank twice my size (I have a 29g). It currently used a filter sponge, bag of carbon, and a bag of bio rocks to filter my water. Someone...

hi i have made a pic of a sump i plan on setting up. i wanted to post it up and have people let me know what they think. the link for the sump idea is under this..

Hey, I'm a total noob to the whole saltwater scene, working on setting up my first tank. It's a nonstandard 150 gallon display, and I'm using a 40 gal breeder for the sump, and adding acrylic dividers to do all the good sump stuff. So the current plan for the sump is to do the relatively...

I was having a conversation with someone who told me that he has no mechanical filtration on his system...at all. He has plenty of live rock and a very DSB. His sump is mainly to hide all the heaters and probes. No protein skimmer. No sock. No reactors. No nothing. Just some calupera and...

2 gallon. Cylindrical. Specific gravity-1.0235. 20 1/2" water depth (31" tall total). 5 3/8" diameter. 2" crushed coral live sand. Live rock. Airstone with no mechanical filtration. Contains macro-algae,1 cleaner shrimp, 4 asterina, 2 unknown tiny anemones, 1 percula clownfish.

for those who are interested in joining a very interesting discussion about reef systems hop on over here. i would really encourage you all to at least grab a bowl of popcorn and read. Ohh, EC, this is going to get good. :D i am totally on old form. as ornery and pig headed as ever. G~