Starting Again (filter advise)

[the reef]

Originally Posted by Hurt
"and about the canister filter as long as you run at lest 4 bags of nitrate media and clean your media twice a week you should have no problems I would have to say these people saying that canisters are bad are looking for a quick fix method and think they would only have to do less as stated above lack of matinence just make shure you keep to a scedual and you will be fine"
Again, my friend tried to use one, only to keep having high nitrates +20. I read so many posts on here with people having the same problems. He finally got rid of it and began using a HOB without floss(carbon only) and his nitrates have since dropped below 5. So, I guess that is a quick fix method

. I'm not trying to tell you that you can't use one, but if you do be prepared for a lot of maintenance. Canisters are great for freshwater, but saltwater is another story. Also, I personally see no reason to run floss as long as you have a lot of LR. Natural filtration-macro's, LR, LS for me

https://forums.saltwaterfish.com/t/156963/wet-dry-vs-canister
I have also read post with people using a fuge and a refue and still have high nitrates I would say people with canisters are not maintaing them corectly or are overloading their tank. but the live rock needs to be in place no matter what method you use

 

[the reef]

Originally Posted by Hurt
"and about the canister filter as long as you run at lest 4 bags of nitrate media and clean your media twice a week you should have no problems I would have to say these people saying that canisters are bad are looking for a quick fix method and think they would only have to do less as stated above lack of matinence just make shure you keep to a scedual and you will be fine"
Again, my friend tried to use one, only to keep having high nitrates +20. I read so many posts on here with people having the same problems. He finally got rid of it and began using a HOB without floss(carbon only) and his nitrates have since dropped below 5. So, I guess that is a quick fix method

. I'm not trying to tell you that you can't use one, but if you do be prepared for a lot of maintenance. Canisters are great for freshwater, but saltwater is another story. Also, I personally see no reason to run floss as long as you have a lot of LR. Natural filtration-macro's, LR, LS for me

https://forums.saltwaterfish.com/t/156963/wet-dry-vs-canister
did your frend clean his canister at lest once a week and replace his carbon once a week as well and only replace half of the sponge and other media at a time? once again just as I said lack of matince is due to the high nitrates

 

[hurt]

Originally Posted by The reef
did your frend clean his canister at lest once a week and replace his carbon once a week as well and only replace half of the sponge and other media at a time? once again just as I said lack of matince is due to the high nitrates
He sure did, every week and still had problems. It also put alot of air bubbles into his tank. He had nothing but problems with it, then changed to an HOB(without floss) and nitrates went down to 5. He also runs a fuge on his tank, so I think the canister was obviously the problem, not the fuge

. I also remeber someone on here converted their canister to a "shop vac", because they had the same problem. Again, I'm not saying you can't run a canister in a SW tank, but unless constantly maintained you will have problems.

 

[the reef]

Originally Posted by Hurt
He sure did, every week and still had problems. It also put alot of air bubbles into his tank. He had nothing but problems with it, then changed to an HOB(without floss) and nitrates went down to 5. He also runs a fuge on his tank, so I think the canister was obviously the problem, not the fuge

. I also remeber someone on here converted their canister to a "shop vac", because they had the same problem. Again, I'm not saying you can't run a canister in a SW tank, but unless constantly maintained you will have problems.
yes properly maintained and should be ok I have canisters on both of my tank all it takes is fine tuning a scedual and that is all that is required if it is a problem then part of the scedual that you do needs some changes is all