filter question

[jimlin]

i have a 24 gallon tank with a 3 gallon fuge and protein skimmer i am also running a turbo twist 18x uv one day a week. i am thinking about getting a canister filter for my system due to limit space for a wet dry and was wondering which canister i should get.

[zygote2k]

get one of the canister filters that has a built in UV.

[LCDRDATA]

i have a 24 gallon tank with a 3 gallon fuge and protein skimmer i am also running a turbo twist 18x uv one day a week. i am thinking about getting a canister filter for my system due to limit space for a wet dry and was wondering which canister i should get.

I have a Marineland HOT Magnum 250 (information here and here) on my 30 gallon cube - mainly softies and an adult snowflake moray. In conjunction with a 2-gallon HOB 'fuge and a Tom Aquatics surface skimmer it seems to pretty much do the job. It has good flexibility in terms of what media you put in it. I don't know that it does a lot of biological (vice mechanical) filtration, but that's what the 'fuge and ~50 pounds of live rock & live sand are for.

[jimlin]

hot magnum. i will look into that. my plan was to take out all the bio stuff and replace with floss. i was debating between the hot magnum and the eheim 2213.

[surf&turf]

Canister filters work as long as they are cleaned often. At least once a week, so they don't turn into Nitrate factories.

 

You only want them to be for mechanical filtration. Treat them like you would a filter sock.

Edited July 4, 2012 by surf&turf

[treesprite]

Canister filters work as long as they are cleaned often. At least once a week, so they don't turn into Nitrate factories.

 

You only want them to be for mechanical filtration. Treat them like you would a filter sock.

 

+1

When I used a Fluval 350 canister filter for a 16g, I filled the Fluval with liverock rubble.