How To Filter My Breeding Tanks

[1234-fishy-freind]

Hi guys, im sure some of you will remember me saying a while back that I purchased a decent sized rack of tanks that I hope to breed a variety of clownfish in. Well ive finally got round to setting them up but need some filtration advice.

The water feeds from the tanks to a black vat underneath them. The vat is about 3 ft long, just over 1ft high and just over 1ft wide. I need some ideas what I can put in it for perform decent filtration. There will be 2 heaters, the return pump and eventually a skimmer in there too. Any ideas?

josh

 

[ben1987]

You could go live rock / and or a big external and cycle like a fish only.
id probably go a mixture tbh. Could stick a couple of little bits in each tank along with half a plant pot too

 

[1234-fishy-freind]

What about sticking a load of media like ceramic rings in the sump and putting a powerhead or something in there to get flow going through them all?

josh

 

[ben1987]

could do, live rocls more efficient and ceramic rings etc could become nitrate factories but it would work for now. id di a mixture if i where you

 

[1234-fishy-freind]

Its just the costim thinking about right now. I will do a mix, ive got more than enough rock in my reef so I can take a bit out there and put it in the breeding tanks as well as some rings and gradually swap the rings for rock.

josh

 

[ben1987]

Sounds good to me, not like your going to be at full stock for a bit anyway, going to be costly and time consuming to aquire a few breeding pairs isnt it. Although theres a stunning pair of B&W breeders for sale on UR right now

 

[1234-fishy-freind]

Yeah deffinatly going to be one or the other. Im thinking of going down the time consuming route of buying 2 juvinle fish rather then spending more on a breeding pair, unless of course I see a reasonable offer going.

josh