Or, if you go FOWLR, I guess you could just throw some pot scrubbers in the Eheim pending purchase of enough LR to provide SA for enough bacterial to cover your fish load (fluidized potscrubber filtration?).
Those $1/bag all nylon pot scrubbers (no metal ring variety preferred - don't want the metal rings) provide a ton of Surface Area for de-nitrifying bacteria. Many have used them in sumps.