Nano filtration?

[Tje22]

I have the biocube 32 and am running the stock cartridges for now, with an LED lit refugium under it. No skimmer so far, but have been contemplating running chemipure and purigen with an in-tank media basket and tunze skimmer.

What kind of filtration is everybody running and how is it working out?

 

[Bunnee911]

Can we see a photo? I used the inTank fuge and tower. In the top, I kept pillow floss, middle was Chemipure, and the bottom held ceramic rings.

 

[Tje22]

Can we see a photo? I used the inTank fuge and tower. In the top, I kept pillow floss, middle was Chemipure, and the bottom held ceramic rings.

Ill try to snap a pic when I do my weekly water change, its pretty heavy to move away from the wall on this flimsy stand lol.

How did that setup work out for you?

 

[DesertReefT4r]

Just run a filter sponge or some floss, clean it 1-2 times a week. Run some carbon or Chemipure. Large weekly water changes. That all that is needed on a smaller tank. "The solution to pollution is dilution" Anthony Calfo.

 

[Tje22]

Just run a filter sponge or some floss, clean it 1-2 times a week. Run some carbon or Chemipure. Large weekly water changes. That all that is needed on a smaller tank. "The solution to pollution is dilution" Anthony Calfo.

I agree with that!

I clean the cartridges once a week and change them once every 30 days. I also do weekly 10 gallon water changes. A little over kill I suppose but Ill lower that amount as this tank becomes more mature.

Everything seems to like it so far.

 

[Justfebreezeit]

I run a santa monica drop scrubber and carbon and if i dont feed heavy my phos and nitrates bottom out pretty quick.

As well as 20% weekly water changes.

 

[Tje22]

I run a santa monica drop scrubber and carbon and if i dont feed heavy my phos and nitrates bottom out pretty quick.

As well as 20% weekly water changes.

Wow! Those are pretty cool. I have never heard of them before.

 

[The River]

I have tinkered with several setups in 2 different Biocube setups... From both intank media baskets, tunze skimmer and everything inbetween.
I finally have a setup that I am happy with completely. It enables me to do zero water changes and very little maintenance.

This pic is slightly outdated, the skimmer has been moved into chamber 2 next to return wall. Also, I added my dosing unit and return line into chamber 3 since this pic. And return has been updated since this.
Soon to be updated is the biocube skimmer to a lee's counter current air powered skimmer - I really like the air driven skimmers on these tanks... they are plenty strong, much smaller space consumption, and oh so much quieter. I had to modify the biocube one to get it to perform the way I like it is in my build thread.

chamber 1: heater, ph probe, marinepure balls in the bottom
chamber 2: custom removable filter pad, refugium with kessil H80 lighting from back side, modified biocube skimmer
chamber 3: ATO, dosing lines, temp probe, sicce 1.5 return slip in Y locline into 2 random flow nozzles

Dosing Aquaforest component 1,2,3 and my nitrates are running from 1-3ppm and phosphates are undetectable on hanna checker ULR.
So that means why water change? And I love it!
I will be doing a detailed update soon to my build thread to further explain how it all is working and some lessons learned. But after being told it wasn't possible to run a Triton style system in a Biocube I took the challenge and quickly realized you can acheive this leaning more towards the Balling method...

 

[Tje22]

I have tinkered with several setups in 2 different Biocube setups... From both intank media baskets, tunze skimmer and everything inbetween.
I finally have a setup that I am happy with completely. It enables me to do zero water changes and very little maintenance.

This pic is slightly outdated, the skimmer has been moved into chamber 2 next to return wall. Also, I added my dosing unit and return line into chamber 3 since this pic. And return has been updated since this.
Soon to be updated is the biocube skimmer to a lee's counter current air powered skimmer - I really like the air driven skimmers on these tanks... they are plenty strong, much smaller space consumption, and oh so much quieter. I had to modify the biocube one to get it to perform the way I like it is in my build thread.

chamber 1: heater, ph probe, marinepure balls in the bottom
chamber 2: custom removable filter pad, refugium with kessil H80 lighting from back side, modified biocube skimmer
chamber 3: ATO, dosing lines, temp probe, sicce 1.5 return slip in Y locline into 2 random flow nozzles

Dosing Aquaforest component 1,2,3 and my nitrates are running from 1-3ppm and phosphates are undetectable on hanna checker ULR.
So that means why water change? And I love it!
I will be doing a detailed update soon to my build thread to further explain how it all is working and some lessons learned. But after being told it wasn't possible to run a Triton style system in a Biocube I took the challenge and quickly realized you can acheive this leaning more towards the Balling method...

Very Nice!