Question about switching from mixed reef to fowlr. Please help

[dottybacks]

Hi I am going to switch it back to FOWLR from a mixed reef because I dont have time for the corals but I dont want to give up on my fish so this is the reason! My tank is a 40g breeder mixed reef without a sump but I do have a CPR 5 gallon hob refugium, eshopps 100 hang on skimmer and a tunze 3162 internal filter for filtration(floss, carbon and phoguard inside) and live rock I have is about 45 lbs. I wondering if I should sell the hob fuge and internal filter and get a canister filter with a lot of bio rings for the biological filterration since is going to be a FOT? I have 8 fish(not going to add more fish in the future) in the tank right now and have no problem with all my sps and lps but I am not sure if I should run those filtration on a FOWLR. Please help

 

[Rob.D]

You could just continue to use what you have.

 

[DMan]

I wouldn't worry about a canister or any extra bio filtration. If the tank is doing well and the fish are healthy then you already have all the bio filtration you need. Plus a canister is just another piece of equipment to maintain. And a pain at that. Sounds like your set up is pretty sweet so why mes with it. I'm in the process of doing sort of the same thing with my 90. I'm just going to let the "weed" corals (zoas,shrooms, palys etc) grow as they may and enjoy some different fish I never could with other corals.

 

[dottybacks]

Okok thank you for the advice guys. I think a canister is a pain to maintance.