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Re: lightly filtered tank question

To: Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com, Amy Hembree <amyh at atl_mediaone.net>
Subject: Re: lightly filtered tank question
From: Chuck Gadd <cgadd at cfxc_com>
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 14:14:33 -0700
Delivered-To: fixup-Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com@fixme
References: <200001102048.PAA13646 at actwin_com>

> I'm in the process of buying a 125-gal. tank from my LFS. When I told
> the guy I planned to heavily plant it and stock it with loads of
> rummynoses, he said that while it definitely needed substrate heating,
> it didn't need any filtration.

I'm running a trickle filter on my heavily planted 75g.  First of all, I
love the convinence of a sump setup.  I put my heaters, CO2 reactor,
temperature probe, etc in the sump.  And I would certainly use at least
some mechanical filtration.  In my case, I could remove the bio-balls from
the wet/dry, but I don't know what that would achieve (other than saving
a couple bucks on purchasing the bio-balls).

Since I don't need to do any extra work to keep the biological filtration,
I'll keep it.  And even without the bio-balls, I'd bet that the bio-filter
bacteria would grow anyway, on the gravel and mechanical filter media.

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