help please with cansiter filter

[renne39]

I have a canister filter(this one sit on the floor ) it has four cambers I would like to know what kind of media I should be using in it. I have zoo’s, green star polyps, pulse xenia, live sand , live rock , metallic star polyps ,3 clown fish . It is a 125 gallon tank. I have 3 koralia (number 4) ,skimmer, seio m1500,hang on the back filter,

 

[kau_cinta_ku]

IMO carbon or chemi pure only, and clean out regulary.

 

[renne39]

how often

 

[Playa-1]

What are you expecting the filter to do for you?

 

[kau_cinta_ku]

IMO every 1-2 weeks.

also what kind of skimmer and how much LR do you have?

 

[renne39]

the skimmer is a sea clone 150 and about 80lbs of live rock and the lights are 2 12,000 white lights and 2 blue antnice I am in the process of adding mh I am buliding the canpoy now

 

[BurntOutReefer]

The seaclone 150 is too small for the tank.......
I would save some $$ and get a bigger/better one....
FWIW...I own 2 seacllone 150's.....

 

[renne39]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13014370#post13014370 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by kau_cinta_ku
IMO carbon or chemi pure only, and clean out regulary.

Do I put that in all four chambers

 

[kau_cinta_ku]

just in one of the chambers, leave the others empty.

 

[renne39]

I have small fine bubbles inside my tank when the protien skimmer is running is this ok

 

[celano]

The bubbles wont hurt anything in your tank.

 

[tent-tacal]

even with just the one chamber filled carbon,is the canister still a nitrate factory?

 

[Playa-1]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13016515#post13016515 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by tent-tacal
even with just the one chamber filled carbon,is the canister still a nitrate factory?

Yep , unless your willing to break it down weekly and clean it out.
Good luck with that.

 

[tent-tacal]

im sticking to my hangons,not as good as a wet dry but better than a canister.