gfeting rid of bio balls

[Neal359]

i have a 72 gal bow with powder brown tang:coral beuty: 2 hawk fish:2 cardnil[img]/ubb/biggrin.gif[/img]ragon wrass: tomato clown: blue damsil i would like to take out the bio balls in the reef for ovius reasons but i only have about 45 lb of lr and a bed that is only 2 inches . i do have a good skimmer tf1000 how many lb of lr would i need to take over the bio balls and what shoould i do for the bed???? most of the reading are good except for the ovius nitrates about 15-20 corals are thriving but i would still like to get rid of the all the nasty alge caused by the bio balls

[clown-t]

i've heard 1 to 2 lbs of lr per gal. i have about 120lbs of lr in a 75gal and everything is great. i have a plentum with juast a couple of inches of ls. i'm going to start adding more sand when i return from vacation in two weeks. remove your bio-balls slowly. i took me two weeks to remove all mine.

[golfish]

I would go with a little more LR but more sand would be better....

[Mobious]

Ditto ^^

Also after you get more LR and setup a DSB and/or Plenium.. Take the Bio balls out slowly.. Like a 1/4 per week.. This will give the LR and DSB time to take over the filtration.

[Neal359]

just to run this by you all i would need to add a nother good 40 lb of lr and about 2-3 inches of botom to it then i should be able to start taking out the bio junk

[Neal359]

do you all think that doing the reef with this method is ok (no bio junk) with all the fish i have?

[Neal359]

just to run this by you all i would need to add a nother good 40 lb of lr and about 2-3 inches of botom to it then i should be able to start taking out the bio junk

[golfish]

The sand going to help filter the tank better than the LR.....You could remove a few of the fish

[organicreefer]

imo you probably dont need more live rock just a deeper well seeded sand bed(and could stand to loose a couple fish)
darn make that about 4-5 fish i would keep the tang the clown and the hawks and trade everything else but then again im cold heartless and completely impartial [img]/ubb/wink.gif[/img]

[This message has been edited by organicreefer (edited 05-25-2001).]

[SPasse]

Neal359.

I agree with the above comments that a good live DSB would add a lot more to the biological support capabilities of your system that more live rock. And it would take care of your nitrate problems also.

Regards,

Scott

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