Members Filtration Setups

[Anonymous]

Im just curious to what people use in their tanks for filtration, ie sumps, fuges, and combos of them.. And especially for the smaller tanks 30 and below...

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[Ben1]

20 tall, HOT Turboflotor, one powerhead. Tank is full of LPS and soft corals, and a pavona.

40 tall, sump with sen 900 return through seaswirl, aqua-c 240 skimmer.

Just check out members tank profile forum, lots of people have there setups listed there.

 

[Ben1]

http://reefs.org/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=23

 

[smlacy]

standard 29g, Just an AquaC Remora, and 3 MaxiJet 600's for circulation. Thats it.

Steve

 

[LA-Lawman]

29gal oceanic model 2 sump with a 200m micron bag, an aquaC EV180 skimmer.

and two tunze turbelle 2002's with controller.

 

[Len]

On my 120 gallon tank, I use only a Euroreef CS6-2 as my filter. It sits in a baffled 30 gallon sump. Once in a while, I'll run Polyfilters and activated carbon (both used passively) to clear up the water.

On my smaller tanks, I usually run a hang-on skimmer such as the Remora. Same idea as my larger tanks, just scaled down.

 

[Modo]

On my old 29g I used a BakPak 2r and about 30lbs of LR with a 3.5" DSB. I had a hang-on Pequin with the Bio-wheel removed without any cartridges. I would run carbon about 24 hrs. during the off week of my biweekly H2O changes. The rest of the time the hang-on was just additional circ.

I ran the above setup for about 4 yrs with great results. The secret to small tanks is water changes and finding that "sweet-spot" with the bio-load. Mine was 3 small fish (Perc, Blennie, Chromis....I did at one time have a Coral Beauty and perc that worked well too). Anything more would send my nitrates through the roof.

On my new 90g setup I am constructing now, I'll be using a DIY MACO course Beckett Skimmer at 28". I'm planning on about 100lbs of LR and a 3.5-4" DSB. I am constructing a fuge at the moment that I plan on having about 10lbs of LR and Macro Algae. All equipment will be in the old 29g used as a sump.

 

[Anonymous]

Thanx for the feed back guys...the reason i ask is, that i have a 20gal tank w/ protein skimmmer and run a tetratec pf150 on it... i plan on going to a fuge and just using that...Seems like no one uses Power Filters...??? I imagine the tetratec im running is fine, i was just curious to what everyone else was doing also...

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