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!
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.
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.
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
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.. .
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??
That Aquaforest aquarium is very nice! Quite pricey, also! Thanks for posting, I really enjoy your videos.
My dream tank! Ty
Great Video Chis, I’m learning a lot watching all your videos keep them coming.
Thank you Maureen
Something satisfying about you showing the maintenance of these tanks lol
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!
Block the Hate Your tank speaks for itself.
Yup 👍🏼 I have a 55 and 20 long sleeve hey both have OASE 250 thermo no problems
@@AngelLopez-xg7wt. Aye I use an Oase Thermo on my 55 gallon tank as well! Love the built in heater so it’s just one less thing actually in my tank!
Thank you this was so helpful 😊
Glad it was helpful!
you can use one of those electrical surface skimmers (just by means of example: skim350 by Eheim, but there are more powerfull ones on the market)
I'm very interested for a saltwater tank with canister filters, thanks for this video.
Greetings from Italy 🇮🇹.
Thanks for watching!
I have a 60 75 and 100 reef running on fx 6 and fx4s they are perfect
Chris, great video. Just shows that it can be done. That tank was beautiful. Hit that like button people.
Thanks 👍
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.
Nice
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.
Congrats and great job 👏
👍
Why yes you can! I am running a canister filter, moving away from a sump, on my 125 gallon saltwater tank.
Your videos on ich where a big influence on me wanting to be part of a QT fish shop.
Tang definitely need a bigger tank but cool setup 👌
We need smell-o-vision on UA-cam! I want to truly experience how bad it smells lol
🤮 hahaha
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.
You don’t use a sump? I wanna set up a 120 g. I was gonna use a ehiem canister filter but not sure if it’ll be enough
I have read removing most the sponges since not need in salt. Just replace with more media.
Qq 2 ai prime good on 35 cube? Or just 1. LPS sps mix
hahahaha thats awesome to see that tank running off a fluval 407 can
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?
pods are all
Over In Every crevice of saltwater tanks so definitely In The filters
I've had both canister filter and now a sump I reakon a sump is the easier of maintenance
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
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.. .
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?
Always start with water chemistry. Make sure the big 4 cal. Alk. Po3 . No3 are good.
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??
I’d recommend toadstools, Kenya tree, mushrooms, zoa’s. I mean we have yet to have a problem with our puffers going after any coral.
could you also establish copepods in that filter?
absolutely
What size tank was that? I have a freshwater 55 tall with a Fx4 thinking of converting to saltwater!
55 it they since upgraded to 75
Hi, can u make a video about quarantining a fish and how to medicate them? Thank you
For sure. It’s in the works
Thank you so much 🙏🙏
What size tank is the one with canister that's bee running for 10 years?
55 gallons
What is his light schedule like and spectrum ?
I’ll have to get back to you on that
Where are you guys located I would love to check out your store
lake park florida
Is there no protein skimmer?
No skimmer
@@aquariumservicetech2891 wow. Thank you for showing this 🙏🏽 pretty soon I’m gonna give saltwater a try