Water polishing

[ItsMeMario]

Help! I run 2 FX6s on my 240g. The FX6 water polishing pads cause all kind of headaches and had to go. Looking for another way to polish the water in my show tank. Any suggestions?

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I used to run an internal power filter when I had a densely stock mixed trophs display. It was a little unsightly but very easy to maintenance and change out the floss, and dang was the water clear all the time! Check it out...

[ItsMeMario]

Thanks Danny. Any chance it was the Marineland internal polishing filter?

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no worries mate. It was actually when I lived back in Australia. Any high flow internal filter should do the trick though.

[mikevxr]

I use an old Fluval 4plus internal filter with a bag of Seachem Purigen sandwiched between the two foam pads. Seems to work ok.

[brianyelick]

Eheim canister filters are the best if you want crystal clear water they dont have the flow but they are the best I have ever used. I have a 2262 eheim classic on my 135 with a seachem 110 hob and a big sponge and I have 0 issue with clarity

[Mastiffman/ Duramax7Man7]

I have found that using carbon to polish along with fine filter pads with u shaped notches cut out of the edges in 4-6 spots helps to polish while keeping flow up.

One thing you could do is get one of those 10" clear housimg whole house filters and dill it with polishing media and make it an external aide channel of flow. That way you sont habe to break down your whole filter to clean it. Just shut the valve off and flow still goes to tank through main trunkline of water output.