New to Salt

[BettytheDancer]

Hello everyone! im drowing in learning all this material. The most recent question is about filtration. Any good resources out there on what to put into your filters for a salt tank?

 

[marcinpolak]

 

[jsker]

Have you been here yet link Post a thread in the linked forum, you can gets some good answer there also.

 

[JC1977]

 

[Nano_Man]

Hi Bettythedancer you have come to the right place r2r

 

[Keko21]

 

[dstockwell]

Welcome to the Reef

 

[vetteguy53081]

 

[Derrick0580]

Are we talking a sump or HOB filter…makes a huge difference how you go about using filter media.

 

[((FORDTECH))]

Hello everyone! im drowing in learning all this material. The most recent question is about filtration. Any good resources out there on what to put into your filters for a salt tank?

Most new tanks are not requiring any type of media in your filters at the beginning, these medias are used to remove unwanted things, and the only way to know if you have these unwanted things is to be testing for them each media removes a specific thing or multiple specific things and we won’t be sure what you need to remove unless it’s tested for. With that being said most saltwater tanks, as far as filtration go would be best to use some type of mechanical filtration, which is like a filter pad or sock to remove floating debris, and then secondly, is a skimmer, which does two things oxygenates the water along with removing scum and other things from the water

 

[fodsod]

Welcome! I'm a new guy also. Great place to be.

 

[((FORDTECH))]

For instance, if you’re testing your water, and it’s higher ammonia, which is dangerous to animals, you could use some ammonia removing media

 

[((FORDTECH))]

If you get your water tested and it has unwanted metals in it, then you would use some type of metal removing media

 

[MischiefReef]

Welcome to R2R!

Filter-
Mechanical: filter socks, filter floss, filter sponges, skimmer
Chemical: Activated carbon, Granular Ferrous Oxide (GFO)
Biological: rocks/sand will host your nitrifying bacteria colonies.

 

[kevgib67]

Welcome, glad you are here! Your rock will be covered in beneficial bacteria that will be an important biological filtration. Best of luck!

 

[((FORDTECH))]

Welcome to R2R!

Filter-
Mechanical: filter socks, filter floss, filter sponges, skimmer
Chemical: Activated carbon, Granular Ferrous Oxide (GFO)
Biological: rocks/sand will host your nitrifying bacteria colonies.

A new tank does not need gfo especially without testing

 

[bpinkstaff]

Welcome! If you search in top right corner R2R has just about every answer you will ever need!

 

[AcroNem]

Welcome to Reef2Reef! Lots of info on forums here. For a new system you don't really need much, depending on what filtration you have you can add more as you go and learn

 

[907_Reefer]

Welcome to the reef, lots of great resources here!

 

[bnord]

WELCOME to the club and thanks for joining

the filtration methods and systems depends completely on your tank size, design, and stocking plans... you will find that one of the wonderful things about the hobby is there are so many right answers - Horses for Courses

most of all go slow and steady