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I have a pristine Discus tank with 11 healthy 5 up to 7 inch adults and about 120 tetras with a mixture of Rummies, Neons, Cardinals and Glolights along with some Corys and Pictus catfish.
Every holiday season I try to do some type of improvement with my system using a portion of my bonus. I have a 150g deep dimension running 2 Fluval fx6 and 2 Eheim 2217s and a Coralife 36W UV sterilizer. I maintain a large container of Chemipure Elite in the bottom of one fx6 and the full container that treats 400G tank in the top of one 2217 and all else is set up for bio filtration with combination of Fluval Biomax, Eheim Substrat, Seachem Matrix and floss.
My question is for you serious hobbyist who have worked a lot with various types of filtration is as follows. Can I achieve same results or better if I sell my two fx6 large canisters and replace them with one 2260 or 2262 and fill it with all bio media. Then stand down one 2217 and fill the other with 50% Chemipure Elite and Purigen or 100% of one or the other making the smaller Eheim more of a chemical filtration reactor that dual roles with moving water through the UV sterilizer.
This would be less maintenance and if it achieves as good or better results I could pay for the 2280 media through resell if offline filters.
Let's me know your thoughts. I travel a lot on business. Although my goal is weekly water changes the truth is it may take me a coue of weeks to be able to get to it.
Every holiday season I try to do some type of improvement with my system using a portion of my bonus. I have a 150g deep dimension running 2 Fluval fx6 and 2 Eheim 2217s and a Coralife 36W UV sterilizer. I maintain a large container of Chemipure Elite in the bottom of one fx6 and the full container that treats 400G tank in the top of one 2217 and all else is set up for bio filtration with combination of Fluval Biomax, Eheim Substrat, Seachem Matrix and floss.
My question is for you serious hobbyist who have worked a lot with various types of filtration is as follows. Can I achieve same results or better if I sell my two fx6 large canisters and replace them with one 2260 or 2262 and fill it with all bio media. Then stand down one 2217 and fill the other with 50% Chemipure Elite and Purigen or 100% of one or the other making the smaller Eheim more of a chemical filtration reactor that dual roles with moving water through the UV sterilizer.
This would be less maintenance and if it achieves as good or better results I could pay for the 2280 media through resell if offline filters.
Let's me know your thoughts. I travel a lot on business. Although my goal is weekly water changes the truth is it may take me a coue of weeks to be able to get to it.
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