Planned filtering setup

BanZI29 · Oct 30, 2020

Hi all. So I wanted to get some opinions and guidance please on what plan to do with my innovative marine fusion 25G AIO and setting up a fuge in it. (I know my art skills suck!)
This is what I would like to do. If anyone has a better configuration, Please share.
I want to try this to help keep chemistry levels even as possible. I do have a small brittle SG and a small condey neno and they are fed shrimp 2 times a week. I have snails and crabs as a cleanup crew. no fish, just coral, 4 months old and fully cycled.
Thanks all!!

LiveWire · Oct 30, 2020

This is just my opinion and I am sure others will follow but IMO If you have no fish in the system I would take all the money you would spend on all that filtration and buy myself an ATO. with no fish you can place the pods directly in the display and they will flourish.

I then would change 3 or so gallons of water a week and only use carbon when it was needed. I would use Phosphate RX with a small micron sock for phosphate control and have about a half dozen regular filter socks so I could change them every 3 days and would only have to wash 5 of them about every two weeks.

There have been reefers that have put some chaeto in the back of there AIO systems with a light source on the back glass to help it grow but I always seem to see the start up but never see a system update that its working well. The only update I saw in a video was the interoperate reefers one saying that it did not do well in his case.

I think you would be better off purchasing an ATO to keep salinity levels constant and then maybe purchase a RPM HOB fuge if you really want a fuge.

BanZI29 · Nov 2, 2020

ATO = auto top off?
I just did a 10% water change ( didnt want to shock the corals with a huge change) and will do another 10% in 7 days.
I use a GFO in a micron bag for now.
as for the sock, I changed to a filter floss pad in media racks on both sides instead of the " cotton ball" style as I can wash those out in the sink. ( wifey did not want me to wash the socks in the machine and its a pain to wash in the sink)

thankfully I did not spend alot of $ for the fuge setup (about $70 total including light) and I will do updates as it progresses.
Thank you for your thoughts thou.