Is there ever too much Filtration?

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Douggie-Style

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I am running a sump with Socks, Skimz 161, Macro, Live Rock, and UV steralizer.......I was thinking of adding a reactor either GFO or just Carbon with Chemipure Elite!

All my parameters are perfect, except my calcium is a little high from the Brightwell Elemental but the rest are spot on......Any suggestions?
 
Depends on the type of filtration.

There is three kinds, mechanical, biological, and chemical.

I don't think you can ever have too much biological because you are only going to have enough nitrifying bacteria to keep up with your bio-load. Thus, if you put 500 pounds of live rock in a nano (obviously it wouldn't fit but for hypethetical), all you are going to have is a ton of unused biological capacity.

Chemical would be hard to have too much of too because most of the chemical filtration exports specific things we don't want in the tank. The only way you could have too much is if you are wasting it by having it expire prior to being able to collect the elements for export. The other thing to consider is that many chemical filtration methods like carbon can actually turn into nitrate factories if not changed regularly.

Mechanical, I think you can have too much.

Just my opinion.
 
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