Media for canister filter

[Paul76]

Hi everyone just throwing the question out there

What is the best media for a canister filter and how would u set it up eg. 1st 2nd 3rd 4th basket for Malawi tank

[dazzman]

I run 3 basket cannister filters where the water comes down through a tube and then gets sucked up through the media to the top and i set them up like this. Bottom basket has ceramic noodles with a coarse sponge on top, middle basket is filled with coral rubble, top basket has another chunky porous media (cant remember the name) with filter wool on top.

This setup works really well for me.

[68RNR]

Hey mate,

I run a Fluval FX6 and a couple of Aqua one 2700UVC's, all of these filters run the water top to bottom.

I run:
Coarse, medium then fine filter foam in the top basket - Mechanical filtration

Ceramic noodles in the second basket - bilogical filtration

MarinePure spheres / Seachem Matrix in the middle - bilogical filtration

Macropore / Seachem Purigen in the bottom basket (Chemical filtration)

All my tanks are 0 ammonia / nitrates.

If you do nothing else, just run some foam in the top, then get some MarinePure spheres. The stuff really is the business for biological filtration. 1 sphere of that stuff apparently contains as much surface area as 1,000 bio balls.