Best filtration set up?

[sredzins]

What do you guys use for filtration set up? (Skimmers, canister filter, algae scrubbers, reactors, i.e. anything to get the bad stuff out) also, out of your set up what is your favorite piece of equipment?

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[revsgirl]

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[Reefing Madness]

Skimmer and Cheato. Nothing else used here. =)

 

[sredzins]

No reactors or anything? I'm curious about the fluval g series.

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[Reefing Madness]

Nope, no reactors, no nothing. I do Carbon Dose (vodka). That's it. Just 6400gph in power heads, skimmer, cheato, live rock. No additonal equipment.

 

[ReeferBob]

I run a Phosban reactor for phosphates. A skimmer. A sump with Chaeto. Also live rock.

 

[Paul B]

Reverse undergravel filter

 

[Bartmmackey]

Reverse undergravel filter

Can you share more....I'm evidently to stupid to find results online of this setup...a pic maybe?

 

[Paul B]

I can't show you a picture because it is under the gravel. Basically it is an undergravel filter like many people use on freshwater tanks, but I run it in reverse. So I pump water down the tubes to the UG filter and it goes back up through the gravel. Very few if anyone uses them anymore but when I started this tank in 1971, UG filtration was the only thing out there because salt water fish keeping started in New York the same week I started the tank.It has gone through a few modifications but the reverse UG filter is still there and has been running fine for 42 years. SPS and LPS grow nicely and all the paired fish are spawning including mandarins and blue striped pipefish. Some of the paired fish that are spawning are almost 20 years old. I don't have a sump and only dose home made calcium which is driveway ice melter and baking soda.I also run a home made skimmer. Skimmer

 

[jesterisdead]

I have a cannister filter and a HoB skimmer. Would prefer a sump/refug but dont have the space. I do a 10% water change on my 55G Mixed reef every saturday and change out the cannister filters every two months. I dont wash them I just dump them. I have carbon media and bio balls in the cannister so I'm not worried about taking out to much. i have a very heavy bio load with lots of lps and sps and 10 fish.

 

[Bartmmackey]

I can't show you a picture because it is under the gravel. Basically it is an undergravel filter like many people use on freshwater tanks, but I run it in reverse. So I pump water down the tubes to the UG filter and it goes back up through the gravel. Very few if anyone uses them anymore but when I started this tank in 1971, UG filtration was the only thing out there because salt water fish keeping started in New York the same week I started the tank.It has gone through a few modifications but the reverse UG filter is still there and has been running fine for 42 years. SPS and LPS grow nicely and all the paired fish are spawning including mandarins and blue striped pipefish. Some of the paired fish that are spawning are almost 20 years old. I don't have a sump and only dose home made calcium which is driveway ice melter and baking soda.I also run a home made skimmer. Skimmer

I believe I just found my new hero!

Thanks for taking the time to show and Shari
ng your experience. What a wonderful tank and a fresh (ain't that ironic) perspective to those that have to buy everything new on the market.

 

[Paul B]

Thank you. If I can't build it, I don't need it, I even built most of the rocks because I like them better than the rocks I collected, which was all of them.

 

[Bluesaltwater87]

I try to use a lot of Bio filtration, with a balance of mechanical and chemical through skimmers and reactors.

 

[Bluesaltwater87]

in my sump i have a mix of bio balls and live rock rubble. aprx 60 gallons total. I run 2 Phoseban 550s with carbon and GFO and my skimmer do's 2 times the size of my system and keeps the water clean with no problem. I also run a U.V. sanitizer every 6 hours for 1 hour at a time.

 

[glb]

What is cheato?


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[Paul B]

It is a seaweed a lot of peiople grow to suck up nitrates.

 

[glb]

Thanks Paul B. I've done a ton of research but still hear something new every day!


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