Canister Filters

Canister filters are self-contained filters that have hoses pumping water between the aquarium and the filter.

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Media Configuration For Aquarium Canister Filters

Early on, I made the jump from hang-on-the-back (HOB) filters to canister filters.  They are much more powerful and can be mostly concealed in cabinetry.  I standardized on the Rena XP series of filter, and now have 3 XP2′s, 2 XP3′s and an XP4 across 4 tanks.

I started out with a pretty standard media configuration that looked like this:

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