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Topic: Emporer replacement cartridges

Posted By: rstruhs
Subject: Emporer replacement cartridges
Date Posted: July 12 2006 at 2:02am

Has anyone seen or heard of these before? If so, do they work? are they worth the money?

Here is a link to the site, and one to these cartridges.

http://www.magnavore.com/ - http://www.magnavore.com/

http://www.magnavore.com/sc-6.html - http://www.magnavore.com/sc-6.html

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Rodney, Sandra, Jeffery, and Laura Struhs
South Jordan, Utah 98th South & 40th West.
(801) 282-2744

75 gallon reef
55 gallon reef
55 gallon FOWLR
20 gallon FOWLR

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Posted By: rstruhs
Date Posted: July 13 2006 at 7:23am

bump

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Rodney, Sandra, Jeffery, and Laura Struhs
South Jordan, Utah 98th South & 40th West.
(801) 282-2744

75 gallon reef
55 gallon reef
55 gallon FOWLR
20 gallon FOWLR

Posted By: Gahlenfr
Date Posted: July 13 2006 at 1:45pm

Is there a reason why you want a biowheel? I would go with a canister over the biowheel. I started out with the bio wheel and went to the canister and still use one in my frag tank with sps in it and it does great! Edit (My frag tank is setup like a refugium with a great deal of macro algae so the canister just provides extra filtration. I probably could turn it off with no ill effect.)

Posted By: Ryan Thompson
Date Posted: July 13 2006 at 1:58pm

i would recommend against using a biowheel. i had one when i started and it became a nitrate problem. it was so bad it wiped out my tank and killed fish and corals. i have since changed to a refugium with chaeto. and absolutely love it!

Posted By: rstruhs
Date Posted: July 16 2006 at 1:36am

I currently run a biowheel (Emperor 440) filter in my 55 gal. aggressive tank. I have a small (7 gallon) refugium and a skimmer in the refugium. I have an eel (about 18" to 2 ft.) a HumaHuma trigger (About 4") a Lunar Wrasse (About 8") and a couple of small (4") Porcupine puffers. This is not my reef tank. These guys produce a LOT of waste! I run carbon (The regular cartridges) and phosphate removers in that filter as an added precaution. I am just looking for something long term that is cheap to run.

Thanks for your input!

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Rodney, Sandra, Jeffery, and Laura Struhs
South Jordan, Utah 98th South & 40th West.
(801) 282-2744

75 gallon reef
55 gallon reef
55 gallon FOWLR
20 gallon FOWLR

Posted By: Dreaming
Date Posted: July 16 2006 at 9:49pm

I use an emp 400 and i switched from the cartriges, which i consider useless unless i am taking out meds.. Which i also don't use only in rare cases... But i switched to plastic pot scrubbies in my emp 400. And i emptied the ammonia remover stuff from the case and put a piece of swamp cooler filter pad in it.. My 55 is excellent.. :) You can use most no chemical filter pad. I just used the swamp cooler pad cause i have extra on hand :)

Hope i helped:)