What filter do you recommend?

Thank you everyone so so much! You are all great! This information has definitely helped! :)

I'm still undecided, but this definitely helped me narrow things down.


And Dorkfish, I am from Windsor as well...so Howdy fellow Windsorite!
 
WeeNe858 said:
wet dry's arent very efficient for freshwater but a sump or catch bassin is handy
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Care to elaborate?
I feel that they do a great job........you cant pack as much biological filtration in a canister. I'm running a wet/dry filter that has 30 gallons of bio media and consumes 80 watts for my 300g. Doesn't sound too bad to me.
 
Wet dry is more efficient even with freshwater. You can get by with a third the biomedia needed in a submerged system due to oxygen availability. You can also go waaay bigger then anything you can stick in a canister, as in the above example.

But a small tank top wet dry can do the work of a good size canister, and I have run these for years. I only moved to canisters recently to give them a go and try something to reduce evaporation and make the tanks look a bit better... The tank top wet/dry systems I made had big powerheads in the tank I didn't much like the look of... And I got the canisters cheap... And I just like to try new things now and them. The canisters work great, but I the wet dry filters did more with less...
 
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