What type of filter?

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What type of filter?

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I am setting up a 75 gallon for my Celyon puffer. The tank has skimmer and about 100 lbs of LR, what would recommend for a filter.
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If you are using live rock and a skimmer, you don't need any other type of filter really. You could use something for mechanical filtration, or use powerheads for added current and to eliminate dead spots.

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Post by puffergeek »

I agree with Phaedrus, you don't need really anything else, but I do like having a filter for mechanical and chemical (polyfilter and purigen).

My ceylon tank has a skimmer, a large powerhead, lots of LR, and an AquaClear 70.

If you have a sump you could do any other filtering there. I'm also a huge fan of refugiums. I want to drill my ceylon tank and add a sump/fuge, but for now I just added several types of macro-algea to the tank. It actually looks very nice!
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If I were you I would not go with any conventional type of filter. In salt water, mechanical filters that include sponges really just trap waste which turns into nitrates.

If I were you I would add a powerhead to the tank to keep the waste in the water column where the skimmer can pick it out. Then I would add a refugium (either HOB type or a sump) with some macro-algae for nutrient removal. Many even people make refugiums out of modified AquaClear HOB filters.
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