Wet Dry Effective or Do I Change It Up?

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Rachel.Cody

Rachel.Cody

Jack Dempsey
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I bought a used eshopps wet dry from my LFS yesterday to replace the 30g tank i was using as a sump. From a little research it seems to be the wd-200cs model. When i was using the 30g i had kind of the diy tower setup. My drawers from top to bottom were filter pad, floss, scrubbies, scrubbies and matrix on the bottom. Its on a 75g along with an emperor 400 HOB. What im wondering is if The whole bioball system is effective or if i should go a different route with the media. I eventually want to lose the emperor and just have the sump running. My pump is rated at around 550 gph, not the best turnover for mechanical but Its all i have atm. Will this sump be able to support my 75g by itself with this setup? Its my poly growout tank so it needs all the bio that it can get. I feed tilapia, krill, and shrimp twice a day. Stock is 1 green phantom pleco 5", 1 pimelodella catfish 4", 1 scomb piyara 3", 2 Lapradei polys 5" & 7", 2 senegal polys 5", 1 moke poly 6", and ill be adding another 5" poly tomorrow. My nitrite and ammonia are always at 0, nitrates around 20 ppm, 50% wc twice a week. Will this sump be able to support this 75g?
 
i use a wet/dry setup on my 110 and it works great along with a sunsun canister for extra mechanical filtration. i also like to pack bags of pond matrix under the bio balls and carbon on the pump side so i can change it easily. the slower turnover is better for the bio so put as much bio media as you can in there and the hob you have should pick up some slack in the mechanical department. i feed the same way and have a similar wc schedule on my 110. we also have pretty similar stocking, i've got a 12" congicus, 12" endli, 10" ornate, 4" royal pleco, 5" blood parrot, 4" hoplo cat, 10" irwini cat, 11" silver arowana, and 2 3" silver dollars
 
tommyfc3s said:
i use a wet/dry setup on my 110 and it works great along with a sunsun canister for extra mechanical filtration. i also like to pack bags of pond matrix under the bio balls and carbon on the pump side so i can change it easily. the slower turnover is better for the bio so put as much bio media as you can in there and the hob you have should pick up some slack in the mechanical department. i feed the same way and have a similar wc schedule on my 110. we also have pretty similar stocking, i've got a 12" congicus, 12" endli, 10" ornate, 4" royal pleco, 5" blood parrot, 4" hoplo cat, 10" irwini cat, 11" silver arowana, and 2 3" silver dollars
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Awesome. Thanks for the info. I have a little mattix in there now, i need to get more. I love the stuff, i use it in every tank. I may take the bio out of the hob and just do more mech.

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no problem. matrix is great stuff and you can get it pretty cheap on kensfish for the 4L bucket. another bio media i've been looking into is that kaldnes k1 i may experiment with that in a section of the 29g sump i just built for my 40 breeder.
 
tommyfc3s said:
no problem. matrix is great stuff and you can get it pretty cheap on kensfish for the 4L bucket. another bio media i've been looking into is that kaldnes k1 i may experiment with that in a section of the 29g sump i just built for my 40 breeder.
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Yea i went through that 4L bucket in no time lol. I want to try out k1 also.

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