Canister refugium?

[brandon0921]

This may be a bit of an odd ball question, but the idea crossed my mind and I am unable to find anyone who has trialed with my type of canister. Currently, I am running an Aquatop canister practically empty as somewhat of a reactor. Filter floss on the bottom rack with GFO, Matrix center, floss and carbon on the top rack. I'm wondering if I could re-purpose the UV light with something that would grow macro algae. Remove the matrix, remove 3 trays, and place the carbon/GFO on the top shelf (goes over the 3 trays), then stuff the empty chamber with chaeto. This idea would be to turn the canister into a refugium to support a better pod population and perhaps remove the GFO once I'm confident the chaeto can keeps phosphates down.

Curious to hear everyone thoughts on this. Tank is 1.5 yr old, 36g, SPS dominant, 5g weekly WC, and unfortunately I still do not have a sump installed.


https://www.aquatop.com/collections...00-uv-canister-filter-4-stage-w-uv-9w-370-gph

 

[nautical_nathaniel]

It might be better to make a DIY Chaeto reactor and retain the canister filter for filtration purposes, look up some videos on YouTube, I know I've seen several.

I think you would have a hard time getting the lighting to work in the canister filter.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

You’d have to ditch the uv system altogether and drill a hole and put a submersible led in.

 

[Conal monaghan]

Hey did you end up doing this?