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| Hello, I'm trying to set up a 65 gallons semireef tank but I dont know exactly what kind of filter to use. Somebody at the pet store told me to use TOM Rapids Pro Series Wet/Dry Filter Systems, but I doubt it will do a good job. Can you please tell me if is this the right filter for my tank or what filter - protein skimmer combination would be better. Thank you Best regards
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I am not familiar with that particular filter, but overall I have consistently read that wet-dry filters in saltwater tanks (especially reefs) are a bad idea. They become nitrate factories because they so efficiently pull waste material out of the tank and away from the organisms that would have processed it completely. This is true of all filters, but most true of efficient filters like wet-drys. The best saltwater filter I know of is live rock (about a pound per gallon) with lots of powerheads pushing the water through it and keeping the waste in suspension, and a good protein skimmer. Another possibility is the "algae scrubber" approach, in which you keep a refugium with a lot of macro algae and a bright light to keep it growing fast (many also keep a deep sand bed in the refugium for added nitrate processing).
I personally use the live rock method, and it works great. You just have to make sure you have no dead spots where there is no or little flow and detritus can accumulate. You want the detritus circulating around the water column until it can get forced into the rock to be processed by the all the microscopic critters.
Hope this helps.
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| Hello, Thank you for your answe. Can you please tell me what is the best skimmer for my tank, and the best sump (I mean the brand name and caracteristics) Thank you
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