Looking for info! Help needed

[GulfCoast251]

Okay! So I have a cylced marine tank that's still relatively new (four months)...

240 gallon grow out tank for bamboo shark. Banded cat shark. Lionfish, harlequin Tusk and a snowflake eel

Ordered a 72x72x31 tank from glass cages for the two sharks as they will be housed their in about six months

With that said. Trying to keep nitrates down as obviously have a decent bio load with the way these fish eat

I have two FX6s, a Ecoreef 400 sump with three chambers

First chamber has Reef Octopus 220 and a Bio Pellet Reactor (installed today). Refugium has a little live rock at the moment. And bought some macro algae (chaeto) to add with live rock. But someone told me with that and the reactor I could pull too much out of my tank??

Is this true. Am I good? Should I use the algae or not lol. And any cons to using it. Trying to keep nitrates down as low as possible for sharks

 

[blaxsun]

It depends on what your nitrate levels are and where you're trying to maintain them. I know with sharks you want them very low. You can always opt to keep the chaeto and just run the reactor as needed.

 

[GulfCoast251]

It depends on what your nitrate levels are and where you're trying to maintain them. I know with sharks you want them very low. You can always opt to keep the chaeto and just run the reactor as needed.

So is using them both a no no?

 

[blaxsun]

So is using them both a no no?

You can certainly use both. Just make to test and test often so you can gauge the impact.