Should I Remove Internal Filter?

[robincushing]

Should i remove the internal filter?
I have an external running already.
i have now lost all my fish and just have the sea urchin, hermit crab and a snail left.

nitrate still at 5ppm.
not gone up or down

i added the internal a few months ago in an attempt to remove algae but its not made a differance so should i remove it?

 

[AK77]

Should i remove the internal filter?
I have an external running already.
i have now lost all my fish and just have the sea urchin, hermit crab and a snail left.

nitrate still at 5ppm.
not gone up or down

i added the internal a few months ago in an attempt to remove algae but its not made a differance so should i remove it?

Hi Robin,

Sounds like you are having a bit of difficulty in getting your tank stable with fish dying etc. I'm not familiar with your setup, so could you post some more details on it like tank size, amount of rock, circulation and how long its been running etc, etc.

An internal filter is about as much use as an ashtray on a motorbike. The only way to remove algae is either starve it of nutrients (phosphates and nitrates and light), grow macro algaes in a refugium or sump to outcompete it for nutrients, or physically remove it either by deploying a cleanup crew or scrub it off by hand.

 

[robincushing]

Should i remove the internal filter?
I have an external running already.
i have now lost all my fish and just have the sea urchin, hermit crab and a snail left.

nitrate still at 5ppm.
not gone up or down

i added the internal a few months ago in an attempt to remove algae but its not made a differance so should i remove it?

Hi Robin,

Sounds like you are having a bit of difficulty in getting your tank stable with fish dying etc. I'm not familiar with your setup, so could you post some more details on it like tank size, amount of rock, circulation and how long its been running etc, etc.

An internal filter is about as much use as an ashtray on a motorbike. The only way to remove algae is either starve it of nutrients (phosphates and nitrates and light), grow macro algaes in a refugium or sump to outcompete it for nutrients, or physically remove it either by deploying a cleanup crew or scrub it off by hand.

my tank is the same as my signature, but now with no fish.

 

[seffieuk]

Hi Robin - if it were my tank, I would remove the ocean rock and buy around 27 kilos of live rock from someone breaking down a tank - I wouldn't add any fish or live stock until I had done that and cycled the rock.

I would also change the tubes to marine white and blue

If you are going to continue with filtration from the external and the internal, I would probably keep both going for now but get some live rock rubble,phospate remover in one of them

Seffie x