Help With Canister Setup!!!!

Alright so I have been talking to Islandvic about my two canister filters and I wanted to start a new thread to make sure I am doing things right, Islandvic you can pitch in also if you want.

So I am going to split the filtration between my two Fluval Canisters which are a 206 and 406.

The 406 will have all the Biological and Mechanical Filtration. The first tray (Very bottom tray where water first hits after the big sponges) will have Bio Foam and a thin filter pad on top of it. The next 3 trays will have Biomax and/or Seachem matrix.

The 206 will go like this. First tray will have Bio Foam and a thin filter pad on top. The second tray will have Polyfil and a filter pad on top of it. The third tray will have Seachem Purigen and a thin pad that came with the filter on the bottom.

Any advice? Will this work? For the 206 should I replace the Bio Foam with Polyfil and a filter pad for better chemical media? Thanks in advance.

Tank is a 75 gallon medium to heavily stocked if you need to know.

 

If Islandvic said it will work it will work.

 

Sweet any advice for it or does the setup look pretty good?

 

If it were mine, I'd keep the setup how you stated in the first part of your post.

Others may want to chime in with thoughts and experiences from their canisters.

I think your tank is on it's way to being healthy, happy and well filtered !

 

If it were mine, I'd keep the setup how you stated in the first part of your post.

Others may want to chime in with thoughts and experiences from their canisters.

I think your tank is on it's way to being healthy, happy and well filtered !

First part meaning this same post or the other one? If it was the other post, what was the setup that was ideal again? Sorry about being confused I get mixed up in my threads

 

This thread you just posted....

Toward the end of your 1st post above, you mentioned the possibility of not using the Bio-Foam in bottom tray of 206 and using more polyfil.

I'd say leave the Bio-Foam in the bottom tray. It is slightly denser than the foam blocks in the red vertical tray and it should catch a lot of the muck just fine.

The grey Bio-Foam + the pads + the PolyFil will catch all the muck before the water hits the Purigen.

 

This thread you just posted....

Toward the end of your 1st post above, you mentioned the possibility of not using the Bio-Foam in bottom tray of 206 and using more polyfil.

I'd say leave the Bio-Foam in the bottom tray. It is slightly denser than the foam blocks in the red vertical tray and it should catch a lot of the muck just fine.

The grey Bio-Foam + the pads + the PolyFil will catch all the muck before the water hits the Purigen.

Sweet! I cannot tell you how helpful you have been, thanks a million!