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I have the Bio-Wheel from Marineland, I’m planning on this tank being a reef tank, is this filter good?
PS.. My heater and other filtration is from Marineland too, are these products good?
 
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What other filters? You will need to rinse out the filter often. That chore can be a pain. Most reefers go with filter socks or a skimmer
 
What size tank? A HOB filter can be used, I'd remove the bio-wheel. Rock is the main filter in a reef tank and a HOB would be for larger particles and many people use them with filter floss as the media. Also to hold carbon and other media depending on how large the HOB filter is.
 
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bio wheels don't provide much benefit at all to a reef tank, you will need a whole inventory of new equipment. Really suggest that you do the research, saltwater is a whole different ball game, much harder and much more expensive.
 
What most do is remove the biowheel and add rubble or some form of rock or media for marine bacteria. They can add chemipure or charcoal bag and filter floss. There are some good hang on back filters that are used due to space such as the aquaclear series. A filter may not even be needed if tank is small but doesnt hurt to have.
As others asked, what size tank and what do you plan to stock?
 
aSaltyKlown said:
What size tank? A HOB filter can be used, I'd remove the bio-wheel. Rock is the main filter in a reef tank and a HOB would be for larger particles and many people use them with filter floss as the media. Also to hold carbon and other media depending on how large the HOB filter is.
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I have a 20 gallon all in one
 
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Ben's Pico Reefing said:
What most do is remove the biowheel and add rubble or some form of rock or media for marine bacteria. They can add chemipure or charcoal bag and filter floss. There are some good hang on back filters that are used due to space such as the aquaclear series. A filter may not even be needed if tank is small but doesnt hurt to have.
As others asked, what size tank and what do you plan to stock?
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The tank in a 20 gallon all in one, and I’m planning on stocking it with a pair of Darwin clowns, and one other fish
 
They’re hanging on the back filter sucks evaporates so quickly that you have to top it off every hour or else it stop working doesn’t sound too bad until you realize a lot quickly
 
ZachariahBeanz said:
I have the Bio-Wheel from Marineland, I’m planning on this tank being a reef tank, is this filter good?
PS.. My heater and other filtration is from Marineland too, are these products good?
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Generally speaking if it is sold as a product for fish tanks and you can buy it at a box store, steer clear. You could find a use for it but it wont be the advertised use.
 
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An all-in-one tank should have built in filtration capability. Marineland makes relatively inexpensive systems and you often get what you pay for in this hobby.

The Biowheel is going to be a headache unless you clean it regularly. Biowheels are intended to provide biological filtration (converting relatively toxic ammonia excreted by fish gills into much less toxic nitrate). Live rock provides the same capability so your "filter" for a reef tank only needs to remove debris. Can you remove the Biowheel and replace it with aquarium safe sponges? Many small all-in-one tanks use sponges as debris filters in their first compartment. I ran a 24g nanocube as a mixed reef tank for quite a while this way.

As others have suggested, a skimmer will be a good addition to your tank if there is space for it. You can run a reef tank without a skimmer, but I would try not to.
 
tzabor10 said:
Maybe a remote display Refugium
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Readywriter said:
Live rocks and a protein skimmer
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Unfortunately, these options don’t work, would you recommend anything else?
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These are the things I’m working with, what would you swap them out with?
 
bblumberg said:
An all-in-one tank should have built in filtration capability. Marineland makes relatively inexpensive systems and you often get what you pay for in this hobby.

The Biowheel is going to be a headache unless you clean it regularly. Biowheels are intended to provide biological filtration (converting relatively toxic ammonia excreted by fish gills into much less toxic nitrate). Live rock provides the same capability so your "filter" for a reef tank only needs to remove debris. Can you remove the Biowheel and replace it with aquarium safe sponges? Many small all-in-one tanks use sponges as debris filters in their first compartment. I ran a 24g nanocube as a mixed reef tank for quite a while this way.

As others have suggested, a skimmer will be a good addition to your tank if there is space for it. You can run a reef tank without a skimmer, but I would try not to.
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Yeah, I can definitely do sponges, would you say any are better than others?
 
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