What's in your canister filter?

Ace25 said:
LOL.. come on... say what you really want.

Amps real answer - 100x+ turnover. ;)

It is total counting all powerheads.

Most people really only have on average 15-20x turnover. It is very hard (near impossible) to get the turnover required to mimic a real reef without blowing sand all over your tank. Plus most people try to limit the amount of powerheads in the tank for asthetic reasons and usually find out about closed loop systems after they have already setup the tank and can't drill them for closed loop.

For your tank, I would suggest something like 2 Koralia3 powerheads. If you have a lot of $ then tunze powerheads are the top of the line IMO but beyond my budget.

Personally, in my sump, I use both Purigen and Chemi-pure along with a phosphate reactor with rowas media.
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My tank is running at around 60x turnover lol
 
Ya, and look at your tank, it is pretty awesome! ;)

My current 29G tank has a 700GPH return pump and 2 Koralia2s.. so that is around 1800GPH on a 29G tank which is around 60x turnover as well. :silly:

Still though, most tanks I see still are only around the 20x mark.
 
Snoogans said:
Until I save up the money for a sump, i am sadly restricted to running my tank on a canister filter. Am curious as to what should be in there...
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I have an undrilled sumpless 65gal reef tank and have been utilizing a canister filter (a Filstar/Rena XP2 which I already had) for the past several months; still experimenting with it in a reef application.

I have it configured for mechanical and chemical filtration (several media bags of carbon and several 25 and 50micron filter pads): basket 1: 50 micron filter pad, two media bags of ESV carbon, 50 micron filter pad. Basket 2: 25 micron filter pad, 2 media bags of ESV carbon, 25 micron filter pad.

I replace the carbon on a staggered schedule (each bag is replaced about every 3 weeks). I specifically wash all micron filter pads (and rinse the canister and carbon) weekly and whenever I change out one of the carbon bags or do water changes (which means the pads are getting washed 2-3 times weekly).
 
well, that makes sense i guess, since isnt that where the conversion of ammonia and nitrite to nitrate takes place?
idk, weird.. i guess.
 
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