What are your thoughts on Grid Filters?

sixty_reefer · Oct 30, 2021

For what it is I prefer the marina hob fish breeders as they got a decent volume to create a nice fuge on a nano tank.

WheatToast · Oct 31, 2021

hhaase · Nov 2, 2021

Tried searching for some info about people actually using these, but came up short. Got any source of actual real-world use by somebody?

MichaelP · Nov 2, 2021

IMO I would rather have an aio setup less points of failure/overflow

WheatToast · Nov 3, 2021

hhaase said:
Tried searching for some info about people actually using these, but came up short. Got any source of actual real-world use by somebody?

There are a few YouTube videos covering this variety of filter (including the one in my original post), but none focusing on usage in the marine hobby (to my knowledge).

Tamberav · Nov 3, 2021

Doesn’t look useful in most instances. Maybe to house and separate mushrooms? Or BTA splits?

The biological media is of no use to any tank with rock. I don’t even have anything in the back of my AIO except a heater and a pump as it is.

I guess if you need gfo or carbon but it will get nasty quick in a reef tank. A reactor is less of an eye sore.