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05-10-2006

Posted by Cindy on May 10, 2006, 11:57 pm

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Will bioballs work in a power filter, or do they have to have a wet/dry?

Cindy
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Posted by Wayne Sallee on May 11, 2006, 10:44 am

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Bioballs are best used out of water with water trickling
over them. They do work under water, but do their best
work out of water with water trickling over them.

For reef tank, just use live rock and live sand filtering,
and a protein skimmer.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets
Wayne@WaynesPets.com

Cindy wrote on 5/10/2006 11:57 PM:

> Will bioballs work in a power filter, or do they have to have a wet/dry?
>
> Cindy

Posted by Cindy on May 11, 2006, 1:42 pm

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Bioballs are best used out of water with water trickling
over them. They do work under water, but do their best
work out of water with water trickling over them.

For reef tank, just use live rock and live sand filtering,
and a protein skimmer.

Wayne Sallee
___________________________
Yeah, I know. But I have this tank with a built-in filter I'm trying to
make use of. It's made like a power filter, in the back right corner of the
tank, except the entire left side is screened for the water to flow in, then
it goes over the first section, and under the last section. Right now I
have it stuffed with bioballs and a powerhead pumping the water through and
back into the tank.

I could use it for an overflow box, but it's only a 20-gal. tank and I don't
really need a sump.

What if I just planted a mangrove in it? :) Or I could remove the screen,
and critters could hide in it. I'd have to take the tank apart to remove
it.

Cindy

Posted by Cindy on May 11, 2006, 1:49 pm

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Posted by Wayne Sallee on May 11, 2006, 4:27 pm

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If you aim the water right, the sand won't blow all over
the rock.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets
Wayne@WaynesPets.com

Cindy wrote on 5/11/2006 1:49 PM:

> Bioballs are best used out of water with water trickling
> over them. They do work under water, but do their best
> work out of water with water trickling over them.
>
> For reef tank, just use live rock and live sand filtering,
> and a protein skimmer.
>
> Wayne Sallee
> ______________________
> I've already got crushed coral as substrate. I don't really like the way
> sand blows all over the rocks and stuff. Would it work to add a couple
> inches of sand, mix it together?
>
> Cindy
>
>

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