00youknowit00
Aquarium Advice Addict
No its not the same. You want a media reactor. And a nitrate shock like that would not be good, it is much safer to take it a little slower with 25%-50% water changes.
But like you said revamping your sump might be a good idea as they can harbor nitrates and so can your substrate I literally just did this same procedure about a month ago cleaned my sump modified it to add a refugium and replaced my substrate...a month later now and I'm already starting to put in sps my tank is doing great everything is flourishing
I just took the bio balls out holy cloudy I'm sure they were hindering my progress with the water changes
It was lol. It's starting to clear a bit now lol
What's the safest thing to use to clean an aquarium so I can silicone in my bubble trap