Will this work as pre filter to canister?

[Bengals888]

Hi,

Do you think this product will work as a a prefilter to a canister filter?
I’m not sure if the canister filter will be able to pull water from the aquarium intake
to this prefilter through the canister.

The goal, less cleaning on the canister since it will have mainly bio media.

Flow would be opposite what pics shows.

 

[DFR]

It’ll probably decrease the flow slightly lower than what the canister is rated at, but it should work. What are you planning on running inside the profiler?

 

[Bengals888]

It’ll probably decrease the flow slightly lower than what the canister is rated at, but it should work. What are you planning on running inside the profiler?

Just poly fill and foam in pre-filter. In the canister, marine pure, carbon, gfo when needed.

 

[DFR]

Well that’ll actually work pretty well.

It seems like you already have your mind set on this filtration, but unless you already have the equipment I would really recommend a sump. When I first started in the hobby, canisters were one of my first filters I setup on 2 of my tanks. If you are keeping up with regular maintenance, canisters can be a pain. And if you don’t keep up on the maintenance, nutrient levels can get away from you pretty quickly. When running carbon, it will need to be changed on a pretty constant pace (probably every other week). To me, sumps make maintenance MUCH easier and you get to keep all the equipments out of your display.

 

[Bengals888]

Well that’ll actually work pretty well.

It seems like you already have your mind set on this filtration, but unless you already have the equipment I would really recommend a sump. When I first started in the hobby, canisters were one of my first filters I setup on 2 of my tanks. If you are keeping up with regular maintenance, canisters can be a pain. And if you don’t keep up on the maintenance, nutrient levels can get away from you pretty quickly. When running carbon, it will need to be changed on a pretty constant pace (probably every other week). To me, sumps make maintenance MUCH easier and you get to keep all the equipments out of your display.

I agree with you 1000%, unfortunately, I don’t have the room for a sump. I have ongoing ideas of the side by side sump setup.
Best of worlds, it would be a sump :-)

So I was hoping this inline pre-filter canister would help with easier maintance. Just hope it does not leak...

The canister would be interim solution. I will never go back to AIO, can’t reach the bottom of the sump area, can’t see what is back there
other than it became a breeding ground for aiptasia.

 

[DFR]

Well the setup proposed will work. You could also put everything that will need to change frequently in the prefilter section and leave the canister dedicated to the bio media.

 

[Bengals888]

Well the setup proposed will work. You could also put everything that will need to change frequently in the prefilter section and leave the canister dedicated to the bio media.

So the intake from tank goes into the pre-filter can via the top intake, output from bottom has to push up a little then into the canister with bio media.

Does that flow sound right? If it doesn’t work,
Both canisters sitting next to tank, I will get small shelf to lower the cans.

Thank you

 

[DFR]

Sounds good!