chuckyshoe
New Member
Hello,
This is my first post. I have only been into this hobby for about 6 months so I am very new. I have a 90 gal tall, with about 150 lbs of very mature live rock which I got from my friends established tank, I have 2 tangs, 1 clown, 3 damsels, 1 blenny, 1 goby, 1 aero crab, 2 shrimps, 2 sallie crabs, 2 starfish, and a ton of hermit crabs 25 or so. As far as coral I have mainly soft, leathers, mushrooms, toadstool, green start polyps, a small brain, and some zooanthids. The tank has VHO lighting, the filter I am using is an Fluval FX5 that contains carbon, clearmax and some media for bacteria to collect, the protein skimmer is a dual back back and I also have the turbo twist UV sanitizer system running. I test my water weekly as well as do water changes 15 gal at a time. My levels have been perfect up until about a week ago when my nitrates went up to 30ppm. Everything in the tank seems to be thriving but when I went to my local store they told me that a canister filter cannot run a reef tank. I got that filter because the wet/dry I originally had was too loud for my wife and I. If the FX5 canister is not good because of the mechanical filters can I take them out and just put some live rock in it? or do I really have to go to a sump system. If anybody has any advice on this matter that would be awesome.
Thanks
This is my first post. I have only been into this hobby for about 6 months so I am very new. I have a 90 gal tall, with about 150 lbs of very mature live rock which I got from my friends established tank, I have 2 tangs, 1 clown, 3 damsels, 1 blenny, 1 goby, 1 aero crab, 2 shrimps, 2 sallie crabs, 2 starfish, and a ton of hermit crabs 25 or so. As far as coral I have mainly soft, leathers, mushrooms, toadstool, green start polyps, a small brain, and some zooanthids. The tank has VHO lighting, the filter I am using is an Fluval FX5 that contains carbon, clearmax and some media for bacteria to collect, the protein skimmer is a dual back back and I also have the turbo twist UV sanitizer system running. I test my water weekly as well as do water changes 15 gal at a time. My levels have been perfect up until about a week ago when my nitrates went up to 30ppm. Everything in the tank seems to be thriving but when I went to my local store they told me that a canister filter cannot run a reef tank. I got that filter because the wet/dry I originally had was too loud for my wife and I. If the FX5 canister is not good because of the mechanical filters can I take them out and just put some live rock in it? or do I really have to go to a sump system. If anybody has any advice on this matter that would be awesome.
Thanks