Filter

After cleaning out all the old media and crap left over from the previous owner I’ve decided to go for a thin carbon sheet and a think poly filter sheet in the trickle filter. The trickle filter in my tank is situated in the lid behind the light unit. there are a lot of different opinions about the trickle filter not being adequate for the aquarium.

I’ve done a lot of reading about different filters and sumps. sumps seem to be the ideal way to go as it acts as i secondary tank which you can have all of you kit in along with filter, protein skimmer, refugium ETC… but for a sump you need plumbing going through the bottom of the tank so water can trickle down and a pump sends it back up.

I’m just going to start with my trickle filter and 10% water changes every week and see how things go.