What type of filter?
What type of filter?
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.
2 X Figure 8's- Garfield and Oddy
1 X Ceylon - Newton
1 X Spiney Box- Webster
1 X Ceylon - Newton
1 X Spiney Box- Webster
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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!
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.
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.