bio balls VS bio wheels

Deminon

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HI all, well for christmas i got a 90gallon tank (yay) and had a few questions. I have an emperor 400 duel bio wheel filter coming in the mail. i also have a bio ball filter already here. Now the questions. would it be better to run either the bio wheel or the bio balls or both? I would like to know this so i can keep the tanks nitrate and ammonia and other harmful stuff to a minimum. so does can anyone give me some info as to which would be more helpful.
 

bigspizz

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More filtration is ALWAYS better, sometimes...lol
 

Bderick67

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Deminon;1373353; said:
HI all, well for christmas i got a 90gallon tank (yay) and had a few questions. I have an emperor 400 duel bio wheel filter coming in the mail. i also have a bio ball filter already here. Now the questions. would it be better to run either the bio wheel or the bio balls or both? I would like to know this so i can keep the tanks nitrate and ammonia and other harmful stuff to a minimum. so does can anyone give me some info as to which would be more helpful.
redundancy with filters is always a good thing. It doesn't matter how many of these filters you go with, it will not reduce nitrates.
 

Raul-7

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Too much nitrate is definitely a bad thing, but that doesn't happen until levels reach 50ppm. The only quick way to reduce NO3 is by doing water changes or by having plants.
 

rallysman

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your filters job is to convert ammonia to nitrite and then nitrite to nitrate.
 

bukster

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what do you mean by bio ball filter? like a w/d or something else?
 

gomezladdams

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What kind of bioball filter?
you reduce nitrates by keeping the mechanical filtration portion of your filter clean and regular waterchanges
 
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