Have no hate towards Canisters, I started with one. (Fluval FX6 on a 65 gallon). I think as long as there is emphasis on the keeping it "simple" canisters are fine. My frustration with it came later as I wanted to move towards harder stuff and also encountered problems which offered more limited solutions when using the canister. Your options for these things becomes hanging lots of stuff off your tank (UV, refugium's, dosing, auto top offs) and/or a whole lot of frequent manually intervention. Eventually i decided the 65 with the canister wasn't cutting it anymore and instead of just hanging more things all over my tank I upgraded to a 140 display with a 50 sump, I'm so much happier with the sump then I ever was with that canister. Sumps are absolutely intimidating, especially the fear of reverse syphoning and half your tanks water over flowing onto the floor. But with a good bit of research you learn there are multiple ways of preventing this from happening such are 1-way valves and proper positioning of your return nozzles, and marking the water levels in the sump with the return pump on and off. I have UV sterilization with a flow rate through it to help improve water clarity. I have a refugium setup with Chaeto growing and seeded with pods that make their way into the main display to help feed the fish. Protein skimmer, heaters, and ATO all nicely tucked away in the sump out of sight. I also find the maintenance of that sump far easier then having to pull out that FX series canister, set it into a separate tub on the floor and undo 8 thumb screw latches. I simply open the cabinet door pull the socks and replace them, and thoroughly rinse or launder them to be cycled back in. Occasionally empty the skimmer cup. And then maybe annually or biannually or do a deep clean on the sump walls themselves. Phew, long rant that most will likely not read. but TLDR. Starting with a canister is fine but a vast majority will outgrow it in terms of it's capabilities to serve their needs.
I love the content! I never had a freshwater tank. I dove straight into salt water and run a fluval FX6 on a 65 gallon rimless. I have alot of LPS but am now diving into SPS which I've had good luck with. The tank has been up and running for a year. Canister filters get a ton of hate in the salt water aquarium community. Most of the hate is from people who have never owned a canister filter let alone run one on a mixed reef tank. I have a problem with the tank being to clean and had to increase feeding and dosing neophos from brightwell. I would love to see more canister filter on reef tank content because there is hardly any information for people regarding this topic. Be safe and keep up the great work!
Ive had reef aquariums for 29 years. My current tank is a 450L mixed SPS LPS reef. No filter at all, no media. No protein skimmer, just a manual filter roll that I turn once every few days and a refugium. I would be careful with external filters, though. You need to make sure you don't turn them into nitrate factories.
My 2nd 3ft tank ran on a canister filter very successful for about 6 years before I had to move house. As I was moving I decided to fit a full length weir and add a sump.
Im running a fx6 on a 125 witu a reef octo 2000 hob skimmer. Tanks been running over 2 years coraline taken over the entire tank have mixed reef tanks been running on point.
from this video I learned that marine amphipods can establish populations in canister filters. I did not see this in any other videos. hopefully some make it back into the aquarium in order to serve as food? It would be great if the pump is at the entrance of the filter, to avoyd having them to pass through. Otherwise one can construct such a thing using a pressurized filter for ponds and an external pump. In the days I read about daphnia filters for ponds, where the nutrients in the water was used by these to grow and multiply. Could you establish also copepods in that filter?
Could you please ellaborate on that? I would like to understand because I’m currently researching a lot and have not ruled out the canister option for salt water.
@@ultraSabotaj lol would you rather carry a canister to a sink and clean it that alone is enough to make a sump better not to mention parts breaking and or leaking in a canister. But that said obviously you wouldn't get a sump for small tanks
When they are full grown they go full salt. They’ve tested the water they catch them in in south east Asia and it’s 35ppt. Very similar to the mangrove puffers here in Florida.
I have a saltwater tank run on a canister filter. The tank is about 8 months old at this point and I just tried adding in my first anemone. The anemone doesn’t seem to be doing well though. Any tips on how to help it out?
That puffer is big not happy😢his belly is totally black.. I have 2 in 48bow running with a canister for about 1yr at 1.025.. just added some pz and gsp to see if my puffs would kill it but they haven't so im going to tey to add some more beginner corals soon hopefully....any recommendations??
Would it be a good idea to use 2 canister filter, one full of seachem matrix as biological filtration and the other canister filter full of sponges and filter floss ?
I think one quality canister filter would Be fine. The rock and sand should be have enough bio filtration. I’d spend $$ on wave makers and keep up with maintenance.
@@aquariumservicetech2891 im having a problem with flow although i dont have any corals yet but my sand keeps shifting to different places so i have my flow on level 1 it goes all the way up to 12. Can i removed my sand and add new thicker sand with fish in the tank ? How would you go about doing this and what sand do you recommend ? I have caribsea fiji pink live sand now.. .
