I’ll follow your thread as I’ve been vacillating between a manifold operating off of my main pump vs using a dedicated self powered magnum or fluval canister for non-continuous run stufff like carbon & GFO ….
I mean heck by the time you pay for fancy acrylic work you cudda had a marineland or fluval thingy with its own motor…
Thing is unless you run GFO continuously (which many dont) shutting it off aint so simple, you gotta take the whole apparatus off line unless you want a canister of stagnant funk…
I’ve been thinking may as well slap a dedicated $100 engineered canister filter with multiple chambers…not as slick, but perhaps more efficient and easier…
I dunno….
