Seahorses with canister filter setup

[rjd0521]

I have a seahorse tank for the past two years. I do not have any mechanical filtration on it such as skimmer, hob filter, nothing. All I have is 20 lbs of live sand, 20 lbs of live rocks, and a CPR HOB refugium with DSB and Macroalgae. My readings are 0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, and 0 nitrate. On top of that, my DT is always full of Pods. I used to once a month, I would just blow the detritus from the sand bed with a small powerhead and then I put on a cheap hob filter from walmart for 12-24 hours to remove all the detritus then remove it. Now, I have no sign of detritus at all on the sand bed since my tank is now mature with bristle worms and nassarius nail doing the cleaning. All I do now is to do a water change once every two weeks. Have my seahorses for two years and still going strong.

 

[rayjay]

I used to once a month, I would just blow the detritus from the sand bed with a small powerhead and then I put on a cheap hob filter from walmart for 12-24 hours to remove all the detritus then remove it. Now, I have no sign of detritus at all on the sand bed since my tank is now mature with bristle worms and nassarius nail doing the cleaning. All I do now is to do a water change once every two weeks. Have my seahorses for two years and still going strong.

If you ever get your erectus on to eating frozen foods, you will find a big difference because frozen food can settle where you can find it, and the seahorses only eat the pieces they deem to be PERFECT, in their eyes at least.

 

[lucycat]

absolutly stunning tank,i use a fluvel 306 using a fluvel filter pack but with live rock in bottom chamber on one tank and a hob on another and i am about to setup a tank with sump and trickle filter ,i find the fluvel sometimes difficult to clean out the hob gets cleaned every other day which takes a couple of minutes.what you have already seems to be doing a good job is there no way it can be adapted so you could use a chiller with it or run another small filter alongside to run the chiller?