wet dry filter

[robalv]

just purchased one and was wondering if I could pour the waste from my protien skimmer to jump start the bio balls.

rookie newbie
sorry if its a lame question

[alton]

You have an exisitng system and now your adding a wet dry to your tank? If so just tie it in and it will seed itself.

[robalv]

thought it might help
thanks

[RICKY81]

you don't want to pour all the waste back in to the system might mess with your levels. and just a piece of advice i currently run bioballs with a wet/dry filter and planning on removing the bioballs cause they definitely keep my nitrates elevated and have heard that bioballs are nitrate factories.

[alton]

I have had bio balls in my wet dry for my 200 gallon since 99/2000 and my nitrates stay around 1ppm. I also run a small refugium with sand, rubble, and chaeto. I keep the bio balls because I have never had a crash since I started using first bio bale back in 91/92 and switching to bio balls middle 90's, so why change something that works?