Sps tanks and filtration

[JOSHUAB]

Starting to redesign a new SPS tank.

what type of filtration is everybody using this day and age to run their SPS tanks?

some of the tanks i have seen are a modified Berlin style ......obviously good husbandry pays a part....trying to find out what's the best way to go.

what is the most common to provide the best colors with sand?

 

[Mock]

90% are still Berlin style, clean sections, heavy skimming with refugiums. Only thing that changes are the reactors, to each his own on those. If you can get by with just a fuge, thats great, if you need GFO, GAC, or any other method of filtration then that is on you. Colors come from lighting and nutrient levels and species.

 

[ShesEasy]

I just run 100 micron socks then a skimmer and a phosban

That's it and ask my sps are thriving

 

[JOSHUAB]

Any others?

 

[polywise]

SPS system for me...
only filtration I have ever used since 2003 is a skimmer plumbed to tank overflow, and 700+- pounds of live rock in my system 300DD, 150g prop, and 200g sump.
clean skimmer 1/wk and Change 50 gallons/ week

 

[Wazzel]

High flow, big skimmer and weekly water changes is all I do.