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    Posted: May 30 2010 at 12:23pm
Just a up  sized to a 75 gal tank. It came with a wet/dry sump(bio balls) I've heard good and bad when running them with a reef tank. Any thoughts?
 
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Ditch the bioballs and install a RPD refugium instead. Bioballs are a nitrate factory and also get clogged up with detritus which can crash a tank if they are neglected for any real length of time.
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I'll second what capn. said
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Bioball have a place in the reef aquarium but not in a wet / dry sump.

People use bioballs to raise copepods and amphipods.  There are a couple threads that guys on RC use them in 5 gallon buckets to grow food for their seahorses and such.  For a reef it traps detritus and reduces flow so it grows hair algae and cyano. 

You can still use the sump and a sump to house extra live rock or as a refugium.
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Thanks that's great to know I was thinking that was the case.
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