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03/19/2013, 08:25 PM
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Should I remove my Emperor 400?
I have been reading through all of the resources on this lovely forum and I have came across the debate on whether or not to have a bio filter. I have an emperor 400 with several ceramic rings in it. Tank is about 1 year old and up until a few days ago, was a Fowlr tank. I now have a small rock with green star polyps and I have a small ricordea. I have a reef octopus bh90 that was also just installed two days ago. Should I remove my emperor 400 when my skimmer has broken in? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Current Parameters: pH: 8.0 Ammonia: 0 ppm Nitrate: 30 ppm Nitrite: 0 ppm Calcium: 400 ppm Carbonate Hardness Test: 9 dKH Phosphate:between 0 and 0.25 ppm Temperature: 78 degrees Last edited by Doogy; 03/19/2013 at 08:40 PM. |
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03/19/2013, 08:29 PM
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Dr. Reef at ur service
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if there is no sump then u need to keep the HOB filter along with skimmer.
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03/19/2013, 08:47 PM
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There is no sump, so I will keep the filter for now. Thanks for your advice.
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03/19/2013, 09:19 PM
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the skimmer will help with the nitrates but I'd try to get them down a bit...
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