Should I Tear Down Tank?

[Diesel]

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/25g-sps-tank.227773/

FYI, small but awesome tank.
You (@Tristan) can ask the OP for info as what he has for equipment running on this great looking tank.

 

[nervousmonkey]

I would love to have a canister filter to vacuum my sump.

Hey, that's a great idea!! Never thought of a canister as a vacuum but it would work great in that function! Funny I never thought of that, but I learn something new every day... Super cool idea! May have to break out an old canister I have lying around and fill it with carbon and go to work tomorrow!

 

[Pfisherman]

Hey, that's a great idea!! Never thought of a canister as a vacuum but it would work great in that function! Funny I never thought of that, but I learn something new every day... Super cool idea! May have to break out an old canister I have lying around and fill it with carbon and go to work tomorrow!

I can't take credit for that idea, but thanks. I think it was @melev or @mrsaltwatertank that I saw do it on you tube years ago.

 

[NanaReefer]

I can't take credit for that idea, but thanks. I think it was @melev or @mrsaltwatertank that I saw do it on you tube years ago.

It's what I use to clean my sump. An old mag350 [emoji2]

 

[Lionfish Lair]

One of the first canister filters I bought 20 years ago came with vacuum attachments.

 

[Pfisherman]

One of the first canister filters I bought 20 years ago came with vacuum attachments.

Yeah I remember diatom filters came with gravel vac attachments.

 

[Lionfish Lair]

I had one of those too. And my bulk box of "dirt".

 

[Pfisherman]

Aka diatomatious earth

 

[Tristan]

The reason for me asking this was that my mom really liked saltwater fish and corals and if I do tear down the tank she wants it to be a reef tank.

 

[Diesel]

Well @Tristan, I think you should make your mom proud.
This can be your year!

 

[Bob Escher]

I have read in this post not to use a canister filter. Other than the obvious of seeing the intake and outake why not if you don't have a sump and skimmer? I would see it as added filtration myself but than I'm not a saltwater person yet. And that is why I am asking. I am going to salt from fresh and have canister filters along with a floating sand bed filter. The sand bed will have obliterated sand in it. And the canister have biomedia from Great Wave engineering which I find fantastic. My LFS told me I could go from fresh to salt with what I have and some live rock.
In the next several weeks I will have plenty of questions. Thanks guys and girls

 

[scardall]

Break the tank down and convert it to freshwater and go with African Cichlids. They are mouth breeders and are easy and fun to have with the colors of some saltwater fish. (they are aggressive fish) Please Read up on them. Buy a book used from Amazon.com and have FUN.