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| Anthony, are there any reasons that a properly setup RDSB wouldn't work?
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your question is loaded/generic, my friend. Yes.. there are possibilities. But rare. Its really hard to screw up an unlit bucket of sand. As long as there is a steady stream of water flowing across it to prevent solid matter from accumulating (or better... mechanically prefiltered water), then you will not likely experience any problems indefinitely. Nothing but good nitrate reduction to be had and some dissolution of sand (if using aragonite) for a lil mineral contribution to the system.
.Anthony Calfo
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| Update: 4 weeks in, no change in NO3.
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| First off, I have read this entire thread and I read the first 10 pages on the RC thread before I lost connection to their forums. It's a great read and I plan to finish but I have a couple questions that I did not come across answers to so... hopefully this isn't a repeat question. It would be really convenient for me to run the RDSB off of a specific pump in my sump. The only problem is that the water from the pump runs though a filter sock, protien skimmer, Purigen (resin/carbon substitute), and a UV sterilizer (UV lit 14 hours a day) before it would make it to the RDSB. Would that be an issue?
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the mechanically (and chemically in this case) prefiltered water is quite ideal for a RDSB. No worries 
.Anthony Calfo
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erock... please refresh/inform us about the tanks situation and history:
bioload, tank age, water change schedule, nitrates before RDSB, etc
.Anthony Calfo
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