Reefer Filter Cups

H Street Reefer · Jan 30, 2018

Long time voyeur, first time poster. If anyone else is in Northeast DC, please let me know.

I have a Red Sea Reefer Nano and am considering transitioning from the filter socks to the filter cups.

Others doing the same, what has your experience been like in doing this? Positive?

Also, what are you using in the filter cups? I was considering Chemi-pure Elite with a filter pad above it (that I would have to change out every few days).

H Street Reefer · Jan 30, 2018

Forgot to change the topic before I posted. Sorry! Should be Reefer Filter Cups, not Zoas and Sponges (we'll save that for later).

kschweer · Jan 30, 2018

I have no experience with the reefer tanks but I’m sure someone can chime in that does. Welcome to R2R!!

dbl · Jan 30, 2018

H Street Reefer said:
Forgot to change the topic before I posted. Sorry! Should be Reefer Filter Cups, not Zoas and Sponges (we'll save that for later).

Welcome to R2R and your new reefing community. Your title looks correct to me...wink, wink!

nautical_nathaniel · Jan 30, 2018

Welcome to R2R! :D

Lovemyreef2015 · Jan 30, 2018

Welcome to R2R

ThunderGoose · Jan 30, 2018

I tried he filter cups. Not impressed. The water seems to prefer overflowing the top of the cup rather than going through media. I tried filter floss, purigen bags and both combined. I went back to socks. It's too bad, it's a good idea.

H Street Reefer · Jan 30, 2018

ThunderGoose said:
I tried he filter cups. Not impressed. The water seems to prefer overflowing the top of the cup rather than going through media. I tried filter floss, purigen bags and both combined. I went back to socks. It's too bad, it's a good idea.

I was worried that would be the case! Thanks so much for the reply ThunderGoose.

H Street Reefer · Jan 30, 2018

dbl said:
Welcome to R2R and your new reefing community. Your title looks correct to me...wink, wink!

unsure how you fixed it...but thank you!

KJ · Jan 30, 2018

Welcome to R2R!!!

pelphrey · Jan 30, 2018

Welcome to R2R! I use the cups, both are full of pond matrix, I rarely run mechanical filtration. I did run some last weekend when I did some maintenance as you can see in the image. Since I wasn't running socks the cups were a nice addition to hold the matrix.

Murraydar · Jan 30, 2018

I have some for my reefer. If you pack it with fine carbon or something else dense it tends to flow over the top of it a bit. Not all of the water spills through, water definitely gets through it.

ourcoralreef · Feb 4, 2018

Welcome
Don’t have a reefer yet
Lots of good info here

kireek · Feb 8, 2018

*Welcome to Reef2Reef @H Street Reefer !*

Aquaden · Dec 19, 2022

H Street Reefer said:
Long time voyeur, first time poster. If anyone else is in Northeast DC, please let me know.

I have a Red Sea Reefer Nano and am considering transitioning from the filter socks to the filter cups.

Others doing the same, what has your experience been like in doing this? Positive?

Also, what are you using in the filter cups? I was considering Chemi-pure Elite with a filter pad above it (that I would have to change out every few days).

Properly set up the cups do not overflow but if clogged then a change is needed.
Have been chenging mine weekly but heavy loads should then be more frequent.
Much easier to clean.
Always messy no matter what method is used.