55 gallon filters

If you want to get really fancy you could do a RFUGF. It is a classic underground filter, only reversed flow. Instead of pulling crud down to the gravel, water flows up through it, pushing any solids into the water column. Then you can add a HOB or canister to filter out the solids from the water. This is very eficcient and will minimize the ammount of gravel vacuming you will have to do(notice I didnt say it will eliminate gravel vacs). With less waste build up in the gravel, you will have less of a chance of nitrates building up down there.
 
Ideally I think a canister filter on one side and a HOB on the other side. This way if one of the filters should fail, there will still be a filter running on the tank as back up. On my 46 gallon planted tank, I have a canister filter on one side,an eheim classic 2215 and a HOB on the other side. It has been my experience that the canister filter is one of the perfered forms of filteration for a planted aquarium. A lot of HOB's gas of the co2 in a planted aquarium. This seems to be especially true with a HOB that has a bio-wheel.

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