Filtration: How many ways do you filter your reef aquarium?

[Scott97062]

1. Live Rock
2. Filter bag
3. Carbon
4. Bio balls
5. Skimmer
6. Phosphate filter

 

[wolfthefallen]

1. Socks
2. Carbon
3. MarinePure Biofilter spheres
4. SeaChem Matrix and DeNitrate Media
5. Skimmer
6. Filter Floss (More of a bubble trap but its there)
7. MacroAlgae Chaeto
8. Clean up Crew; Snails and Hermit Crabs

 

[Fishurama]

Carbon
GFO
Skimmer
Sock
Sump
live rock
water changes
coral, clean up crew, and other filter feeders like muscles in my tank.

So 8, im sure im missing something LOL

 

[ase0227]

1. Count how many ways you are filtering your reef tank (natural & mechanical) and tell us that number!
6

2. List all the ways you are filtering your reef aquarium and include the names of any filtration equipment that apply.
1. Rocks in display
2. Filter socks
3. Skimmer
4. Refugium with chaeto and caulerpa
5. ATS
6. Carbon reactor

I know it seems like running a fuge and ATS may be overkill, but it works for me and my big fat sloppy tangs.

Live rock
Skimmer
Filter socks (2 tier)

There are many ways to achieve filtration in your saltwater reef aquarium via natural ways and mechanical ways. Some like to keep it simple while others want as much filtration as possible! So let's talk about it today!

1. Count how many ways you are filtering your reef tank (natural & mechanical) and tell us that number!

2. List all the ways you are filtering your reef aquarium and include the names of any filtration equipment that apply.


The Minimalist Reef

Skimmer
Live rock
Filter socks (2 tier)

 

[ca1ore]

All of them .....

 

[msjboy]

hyrdroton in a closed submerged bucket with a pump

 

[PacoPetty]

1.Live rock & sand
2.Filter floss
3.Chemi pure blue or Purigen
4.Marine pure gems
5.Chaeto with fuge light
6.Cleanup crew: Turbo snails, Emerald crabs, Halloween hermit crab, Strawberry crab, Porcelain crab
I do a 12 gallon water change every Saturday

 

[SixtyFeetUnder]

1. Live rock
2. Filter socks
3. Protein skimmer
4. Carbon reactor
5. UV sterilizer

 

[210 Reef Tank]

Refugeium w AI light
40 Gallon Sump
2-8 inch Filter Socks
Chaeto
72w UV Light
GFO
Charcoal
225 lbs Live Rock
Skimmer
45 gallon Water Changes every 3 weeks
CO2 scrubber

 

[salty150]

And here I thought I might be overdoing it, lol.

Glad to see I am not alone!

 

[Jax15]

I try to keep it simple. But it doesn't usually end up that way

Filter socks
Skimmer
Chato fuge w/marinepure blocks
Carbon
UV

^Not too over the top, right?

 

[Colin_S]

live rock
substrate
Turf Scrubber
Skimmer
Marine Pure blocks
UV
GFO - when needed

still got High nitrates lol

 

[HaydenS13reefer]

Hi Everyone!

Here's my AIO setup. Seems to be working pretty well for me.

One side Intank Media Basket with the below.
Filter floss changed every 3-4 days
Chemipure Blue
Bag of bio balls
Bag of Seachem Matrix

Opposite side I'm running filter socks that are changed weekly with water changes and kept in for 3-4 days.
Tunze Protein Skimmer

I'll be including a Cheato Reactor this week as well.

 

[Deltec USA]

Besides the obvious rock and sand, here's a list of what we run for filtration on our 1650 gallon mixed reef!

1- Deltec Black Edition 7i 7000L Protein Skimmer

2 - Abyzz A200 pump (for skimmer)

3 - Deltec CRTT 10,000 Calcium Reactor

4 - Deltec VF6000 Fleece Filter

5 - Deltec FR616 Fluidized Media Reactor

6 - Aquaultraviolet SL200 UV Sterilizer

7- Algae Scrubber - CWS CW300

8 - 4 x Chemi-pure Blue Grande

 

[jeffrey750750]

1. Live rock
2. Live sand
3. Clean up crew
4. Filter sock
5. Skimmer
6. N03 plate
7. Carbon
8. Chaeto
9. Bacter7, bio fuel and tlc optimizer

 

[New Jersey REEF]

1. Biological (live rock)
2. Mechanical (Filter socks)
3. Biological (Marine pure media )
4. Refugium algae
5. Chemical (GFO )
6. Chemical (Carbon)
7. Chemical (Purit)
8. UV
9. Skimmer

Soon to add sulfur reactor as #10

 

[Lillmoya]

FX6 containing...
Bio balls
Bio stones
2 socks of carbon
Sponge pad
Polisher pad
Double Panty hose on the intake. (There for a few reasons. Mainly because I’m trying to build my pod population).

Refugium containing...
Red Gracilaria and Ogo algae
(More Macroalgae in the mail and will be transplanting it in the display as it grows).

It’s a new tank, so I’m working on establishing the bio filter and ecosystem with pods and coralline algae.

 

[PirateMonkeyReefer]

Let’s see!

1. Biological (rock/media)
2. Skimmer
3. Algae reactor
4. Carbon
5. Filter socks

Really don’t know how much the skimmer is doing at this point though!

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

There are many ways to achieve filtration in your saltwater reef aquarium via natural ways and mechanical ways. Some like to keep it simple while others want as much filtration as possible! So let's talk about it today!

1. Count how many ways you are filtering your reef tank (natural & mechanical) and tell us that number!

2. List all the ways you are filtering your reef aquarium and include the names of any filtration equipment that apply.


The Minimalist Reef

No hair algae, nada....

1. Count how many ways you are filtering your reef tank (natural & mechanical) and tell us that number!
2 methods
2. List all the ways you are filtering your reef aquarium and include the names of any filtration equipment that apply.

diy DE Filtration
70 Pacific oysters

 

[homer1475]

I was going to say 1, but then got thinking.....

It's more like 4 to 5

1) Biological(live rock, marine pure, sandbed)

2) Protein skimmer

3) filter sock(from time to time, not 24/7)

4) Carbon in a reactor(24/7/365)

How many of you that had a low number, didn't think all those are listed are ways of filtering the water?

If anyone answers 0, they have a dead tank with nothing in it. At the very least, you have biological filtration.