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should i have a wet or dry filter system? i heard that dry filter system with ceremic chips will be a nitrate factory in long term?

anyway im having a 4inch seabed in my main tank and a 6inch sandbed in my sump tank,can experts give me advise plz

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I think its call a Wet/dry filter system, its one system, not two.... means that your bio balls or whatever filter media that you use are actually suspended above water level with water running thru it..... Anyone care to share the more scientific part of it..... ;)

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The idea of suspending the bio-balls in air is to create an oxygen-rich environment for nitrification bacterias, which are aerobic in nature to improve its efficiency. If you submerge the bio-balls, then it would be operating just like any other submerged media such as LR, sand, etc...... The problem with wet/dry systems is that they tend to produce higher nitrates(NO3), and unless u have a means of reducing this (with DSB, LR, macro algae...), it is going to be a problem in the long term. BTW, I'm using one....but I have a DSB, plenty of LR and macro algae. So far, OK....

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