suthernsalt
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
I have a 100g setup basically FOWLR. I just recently added about 150lbs LR that had a few star polyps, mushrooms, and xenia. I run two Emperor 400 w/Bio-wheel and a Turboflotor 1000 skimmer for filtration. Tank had been setup w/o lr for 3 yrs when I bought it, I have had it almost a year, and the nitrates have never been below 20 even with 15g water changes no less than once a week. All the inhabitants eat and are active including polyps,xenia, and shroooms, and I have had no problem with loss. Fish include 4" Volitan Lion, 4" Lunare Wrasse, 3" Yellow Tang, 4" Blue Regal, 1.5" Niger Trigger, also have brittle star and about 20 blue leg hermits. My ammonia and nitrites are always 0. Now for my question, Could my problem be my bio-wheels, I have read that bio balls in a sump are a "nitrate factory", so I wondered if wheels could be too. If so should I take them out? Thanks. AA Rocks