Has anyone ever hooked to cannisters in series, you know, from the tank, into the first filter, then into the second filter, then into the tank?
Canister filters in series
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think its a better idea to have each one hooked up. not only less dead spots but better filtration.
I have not done it yet but I am in the process of installing a system on my 200 Gallon tank. I have 3 GE Home Water Filter canisters installed in Series. The first filter will contain a coarse filter material to catch large debris, the second will hold enough SeaChem Matrix Biological media for 300 Gallons of water and the last filter will hold enough Seachem Purigen for 300 Gallons of water.
I am going to pump the water with a 1300 GPH little giant pump to make the whole think work.
Like I said I am installing the system now and I hope to have it finished this weekend.
I am going to pump the water with a 1300 GPH little giant pump to make the whole think work.
Like I said I am installing the system now and I hope to have it finished this weekend.
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What benefit from doing this is there other than a couple less parts in the tank? I too would agree to use them both like normal. You might have a much tougher time priming them and purging of air.
no but a friend of mine wanted more media so hooked up and additional pond bucket on each of his pro 3's doubling the amount of media on each.
he used them as pre filters and the pro 3 pump handle the additional media quite well
he used them as pre filters and the pro 3 pump handle the additional media quite well
If you're just wanting to plumb 2 self contained canisters to each other it wont work. The flow rates will be different and it will stress the motor on one of the filters. It can be done if you pull the impellers and use an external pump though.
The water that comes out of my canister filter is pretty clean and clear. Why would you want to run clean water thru a second filter? You are going to have a cleaner tank if you have to intanks in the tank itself, one on each end, to gather as much waste as possible.
if you were going to combine to filters (like a lifegaurd modular setup) one would be setup for mechaincal and one for biological, for example. You would want to set them both up identically if they were in series.garbon2535 said:
I am going to set up a 36 gallon bow tank planted. I only want as much equipment showing in the tank as absolutely necessary. My though was that running one filter through the other, would only have to have one inlet and one outlet in the tank. I wanted two, to have one for backup in case one failed. I will be running an Eheim Ecco 2234 which I am now running in my 15 gallon tank to seed it for the 36 gallon tank. I think that I am just going to run that one filter. It should be enough.