How Is Your Filtration System Setup

[Lance]

My 225g drains into the 70g sump through a filter sock; MR3 skimmer with dual becketts; refugium with DSB, live rock, and macroalgae. Phosphate reactor running GFO, another reactor running carbon and a third reactor running nitrate sponge.

The 90g drains into 54g sump through a filter sock, skimmed by a Tunze 9010; refugium with DSB, live rock and macro algae. Phosphate reactor running GFO, and dual reactor running carbon and nitrate sponge.

[kien]

There's about 100lbs of live rock in the DT to do some bio filtration.

Sump filtration setup consists of:

Section 1: Water flows into this section via two 1" pipes from the DT. This section houses a Hydor 700 skimmer and a pump that pumps water into two phosban reactors (1 for carbon and one for Rowaphos).

Section 2: in the middle of the sump is the return section

Section 3: is my refugium which has its own 1" feed from the DT. In here I have 3 inches of sand, a layer of live rock/rubble, then a layer of macro algae (which doesn't seem to grow that well .. not enough nutrients I guess.. )

No filter socks or mechanical filters.

[mark]

From the BB display about 700gph through a sock then skimmer compartment and ~300gph to a separate macro fuge that flows to the sump. Bag of carbon between the baffles in the sump. No sand, just LR, NO3 zero or near zero, phosphates zero, no nuisance algae but some issues with SPS (STN/RTN).