I'm a bit confused I visit a LFS in the centre of Glasgow yesterday and managed to have quite a long chat with them. They basically informed me that buying an external filter is a waste of money as if you have live rock it will do the biological filtering for you and the clean up crew will do mechanical filtering. He also pointed out that the media in the filter will just cause more nitrates/phosphates - The salesperson also suggested that as I have the filter just to whack some live rock in it with some carbon and use it for extra water flow.
I'm not too sure whether to believe what they said as alot of books recommend a canister filters but point out you should clean them regularly (which I totally understand and would follow) - Have I wasted my money?
I'm not too sure whether to believe what they said as alot of books recommend a canister filters but point out you should clean them regularly (which I totally understand and would follow) - Have I wasted my money?