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[nottingham82]

ok so i have a 60 gallon salt tank with a couple live rocks, a cleaner shrimp, some good ol crabs and of course 2 clownfish. We have a canister style filter and a aqua clear 500 hanging filter. We decided to change the filters in the aqual clear one and next week do the canister. We went to the pet store and purchased the filters and swapped them out. afterward i was reading the boxes and noticed that one that we had put in was an amonnia remover and said freshwater only... will this hurt my tank? should i remove it imediatly? whats the deal with that? ok please help yo.
Steve

 

[Fish_First]

I'd get rid of both filters and get a protein skimmer... You'll find this 2000% more effective mode of filtration for saltwater. Basically all you've got with the two filters on there now are nitrate sinks... no good in saltwater. As for the ammonia remover... I doubt it will work in saltwater and that is why they put freshwater only on the box. I'd sell both filters ASAP and get a protein skimmer and then some live rock for the tank.

 

[nottingham82]

yeah i want one... someone gave me this whole setup i just want to make sure im not damaging the tank by having the amonia reducer in there

 

[Max]

No, their won't be any damage. You'll have to pay pretty close attention though and make sure you replaice it as directed or you might have real issues. I'd go out and get some more l.r. or even some coral, lime stone or other calcium carbonate rock. Given time it will become live rock and that's all the filtration/denitrification that you'll need. I wouldn't remove the filters though until you can do this and it has time to establish though. A large % of your bacteria is in those filters right now and your tank will need time to build up population.
hth
chris

 

[nottingham82]

will just running the protien skimmer with no other filters provide enough of a current?

 

[cthopper]

No, it won't be enough current. Get a couple of powerheads.