I have a EHEIM Professional II 2126 Canister Filter. It is for my 55 gal salt water tank. I have 50 pounds of Live rock and 50 pounds of live sands. Also have a protein skimmer. about 8 fishes 50 tank cleaners (snails, hermit crab, star fish and shirmp). Probably some corals later. What media should I put in my canister filter? EHFIMECH, EHFISUBSTRAT, and carbon filter pads? what else? or what is better for my tank?
I have a 12 gallon salt water fish tank for about a year not and I can keep everything in the norm for chemicals. I think its time to advance to something bigger. I was given a 46 gallon bow front all glass brand new tank w/ the standard halogen bulb hood so I need to buy it all, a filtration system im thinking canister, larger protein skimmer, overflow system, w/o drilling holes, light bulb what size and type? My small tank has only 2 damsels, a chocolate chip starfish, and 2 hermit crabs. But I want to go to a mini reef style. Live rock, and coral; hard and soft, annonime, fish invertebrate, im willing to take a year or 2 to do it right but im not sure on what type of equipment to buy. Now im not looking to spent 2 grand on getting it up and running
A second thing where is the best place to buy this stuff. EBay local store, and live rock one big piece lots of small ones? What else can I use to replicate live rock and give to look that is in a traditional mini reef system?
Hello!
I have been planning my saltwater tank and would like your opinions on it. I have several points that I’d like to cover. Any information you can offer, I would be grateful for. If you could bear with me while I cover the specifications of my tank. And the population which I plan to place in it.
Firstly, the tank… a 125 gallon tank. 72" x 18" x 22"(L,W,H) It will have a glass top with two fluorescent strip lights. It will have an overflow, and a mega-flow sump filter. Also I will add a Cora-life Super Skimmer Needle Wheel Protein Skimmer and two power heads. Along with that I will also add more filtration with a Marine-land Emperor 280 Filter System. That will do for the hardware.
I will add 120-140 lbs of live sand from the south pacific. In addition I will have 120-140 lbs of live rock.
I will also opt for some live soft corals, polyps and mushrooms. Of these corals, they compose of 3 Assorted Mushroom Corals 3-5", 2 Assorted Leather Coral 3-5" and 3 Green Metallic Star Polyps 3-5". Also to be bought are combination of various soft, polyp, and mushroom corals. In addition to those I may decide to add some more mushroom corals. the reason for the vagueness in some of them is because they will be bought in a package deal so I won’t know exactly what I will get.
Now to the little critters:
6 Cerith snails
6 Nerite snails
1 Sand Sifting Starfish
1 Cleaner Shrimp
3 Blue Leg Hermits
3 Red Leg Hermits
My concern about the little critters is that they feed on detritus. I don’t know how I can keep them fed and still run a protein skimmer. Maybe get a smaller protein skimmer?
Moving on to the fish…
1 Yellow Tang
3 Green Chromis
1 Clownfish
Possibly: 1 Carpenter Flasher Wrasse and/or 1 Filemented Flasher Wrasse and/or 1 McCoser Wrasse.
Now some of my questions….
Would you change my fish arrangement? What wrasse would you get? Do you know how I could keep my crabs and such fed? Would my corals need better lighting? They are begginer coral and only really need photosynthetic food. But not sure what lighting I should have. You think my equipment set up is good? Is the 125 too small for everything I want? Is it too small to have a certain fish?
Anything you could help me with is greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
<3 Curious Aquarist
P.S. I want to be as well planned as possible. But I’d like to know what you think. Please avoid posting many links as your only answer.
Hi, I have a 95 gallon tank up and running with salt water fish and tons of live rock. It has the wet/dry trickle filtration hidden behind the aquarium and a protein skimmer hanging on the back. I know I should have done this before, but now I want to add a sump underneath the tank (i will need to break it down so i can move it and put it in from behind).
So my question is, do you think this is a good deal? It comes with a canister but I dont know much about that. He is willing to set it up for me for a total of 0, for all the equipment and installation. It sounds like a good deal, but I’m not sure if another wet/dry filtration would be the best choice since I already have that on the back. I know more is always better but I’m wondering if theres a different sump that will be better. Someone suggested i do a regular 30 gallon tank and add macro alge, but i heard its worth it with a reef, not a fish only.
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I have a TOM PRO SERIES FILTER witch is a ps4 and its has 3 layer filtration with a protein skimmer and and pump and a overflow box included pretty much everything ready to go on my 90 gallon saltwater ….. now the problem is that if by any chance i want shut off the equipment how can I stop it some over flooding the filter because I was going to mover the filter and I had to unplug it and for some reason the filter box was flooding is there a way to prevent that !!!
I soon hope to start up a marine aquarium with a tank which is 36x15x12 (inches) and holds 100L. I am confused by all of the different filtration systems and wonder if anyone could give me any advice?
I have been told that if you want salt water fish, a protein skimmer is absolutely necessary but would I also need any other type, like an under-gravel filter or canister filter?
If I do need all three, how would I connect them and do I need extra equipment to get the water flowing?
Thankyou!
