I have a 75 gallon Salt water tank that I'm in the processes of setting up. Unfortunately it does not have capability to add a sump and I'm not into drilling into tempered glass. It will have a combination of fish and Coral.
I have 30lbs of live rock from a 25 gallon biocube tank I've had for a little over a year now. I will be migrating everything from my biocube to the new tank + 50 additional pounds of dead rock.
I will be taking one large live rock out of the biocube and also adding live sand to the new tank to help cycle it and seed the dead rock
My question is what media to put in the canister filter. It will be the fluval FX4 canister.
I'm considering the following because its what I already use for the filtration in the biocube and it has thrived.
Chemi pure elite with brs bulk premium rox 0.8 in one tray
Wondering if I should remove the bio rings and just crush some of my live rock and use the live rock rubble instead?
Also for the filter pads would anyone recommend anything better than what comes with the unit?
My biocube I replaced the two sponges in the first compartment with a media tray and had the following:
Microfilter pad (replaced every 3-4 days)
Chemipure elite (replaced every 3 months)
BRS rox .08 carbon (replaced every month)
2nd compartment:
Sponge (cleaned once a month)
Bioballs (cleaned once a month)
3rd compartment
Heater
pump
This has kept my biocube looking awesome plus weekly/bi-weekly water changes, clean and growing. just wondering if doing similar with the canister would be ok. I won't use a micro filter pad because from what I hear it will gunk up pretty quick in a canister.
I have 30lbs of live rock from a 25 gallon biocube tank I've had for a little over a year now. I will be migrating everything from my biocube to the new tank + 50 additional pounds of dead rock.
I will be taking one large live rock out of the biocube and also adding live sand to the new tank to help cycle it and seed the dead rock
My question is what media to put in the canister filter. It will be the fluval FX4 canister.
I'm considering the following because its what I already use for the filtration in the biocube and it has thrived.
Chemi pure elite with brs bulk premium rox 0.8 in one tray
Wondering if I should remove the bio rings and just crush some of my live rock and use the live rock rubble instead?
Also for the filter pads would anyone recommend anything better than what comes with the unit?
My biocube I replaced the two sponges in the first compartment with a media tray and had the following:
Microfilter pad (replaced every 3-4 days)
Chemipure elite (replaced every 3 months)
BRS rox .08 carbon (replaced every month)
2nd compartment:
Sponge (cleaned once a month)
Bioballs (cleaned once a month)
3rd compartment
Heater
pump
This has kept my biocube looking awesome plus weekly/bi-weekly water changes, clean and growing. just wondering if doing similar with the canister would be ok. I won't use a micro filter pad because from what I hear it will gunk up pretty quick in a canister.