I am currently running two nyos 160 on a heavily stocked 250 gallon tank (50 fishes). The nitrate is around 40ppm and phosphate is around 0.9ppm last time I checked. It is a mixed reef tank, believe or not, corals do not seem to be bothered at all, LPS and SPS. I know the wisdom of the hobby is "if it ain't broke, don't fixe it". I am not a fan of using any chemicals to control the NO3 or PO4, and fishes are my weakness so lowering bio load is not not an option either.
Upon doing some research, it appears skimmer could be an area of improvement. I'm thinking of replacing two nyos 160 (rated 75 gallon each for high bioload) to one Reef Octopus Regal INT300 (rated 400 gallon for high bioload), do you think this would do a dent on the high nutrients problem i'm trying to solve?
(note even the skimmer rating is much higher for reef octopus than nyos, but looking closer at the technical details, it appears the air draw of two nyos 160 is higher than one reef octopus, nyos does not disclose gph of the pump but i'm assuming two nyos pump would turnover more water than one varios 6.0 pump)
Reef Octopus
Nyos 160
Upon doing some research, it appears skimmer could be an area of improvement. I'm thinking of replacing two nyos 160 (rated 75 gallon each for high bioload) to one Reef Octopus Regal INT300 (rated 400 gallon for high bioload), do you think this would do a dent on the high nutrients problem i'm trying to solve?
(note even the skimmer rating is much higher for reef octopus than nyos, but looking closer at the technical details, it appears the air draw of two nyos 160 is higher than one reef octopus, nyos does not disclose gph of the pump but i'm assuming two nyos pump would turnover more water than one varios 6.0 pump)
Reef Octopus
- Air Draw: 1200-2400 LPH / 42-84 SCFH*
- Power Consumption: 35-70W
- Voltage: DC 36V
Nyos 160
- Air Draw: 1500 LPH
- Power Consumption: 18W
- Voltage: AC 120V