fluidized bed filter

[mmmsalty]

:thinking: I've just recented purchased a fluidized bed filter and im unsure of how i want to install it. I know that the slower the flow of water through it, the more effective it will be. Im debating between attaching it to the output of my canister filter or just hanging it on the back of the tank. The fluidized bed does have an adjuster that allows the flow coming in to be minimized while the rest of the output goes back in the tank, will this greatly reduce the amount of circulation my canister know provides? which way is best and most effective?
Thanks for any input!!!! :happyfish :happyfish :happyfish

 

[a short]

The water going into it has to be free of deitrus so I would place it after the filter. No I see what your sayin about the flow, It can't have water goin thru it as fast as a filter does, it will blast all the sand out or if you regulate it down it will make your filter less efficiant. Sooo, Just hang it on the back and put a screen filter on the power head that is running it. I have the red sea fluidized bed and this is my set up, I just have to keep my intake filter clean. The amonia and nitrates it addresses are in the tank water anyway. Hope this helps.

 

[mmmsalty]

:happy: the fluidized bed does have a regulator that allows minimal water to go into it & then has another output for the rest of the water that didnt enter it to go straight to the tank. i was just wondering which way is more effective (in tank or on filter). I can turn the regulator really low so that sand isn't being blasted through it.
thanks!!! but which do you think?

 

[mmmsalty]

you know what, you did answer my question. i didn't fully read your reply (little sleepy). i was thinking the same thing: the water coming from the canister will be relatively clean, so i want to be filtering what is in the tank.
thanks, you answered my question!

 

[a short]

Notice my posting time, I was kinda out off it last night when I was writing. My bed has only one valve control so its controlled with a power head. Yours sounds like a nice one but yes it has to have clean water going in or stuff just stays in there banging around. I have had a bunch of live brine get in mine befor and ouch, what a way to die! They just stayed in there untill they decayed!