best filter ??

I am brand new at this, so please bare with me, I am changing my all glass 55 gal. over to a salt water tank. so starting from scratch. Which filter is better?? A wet/dry or refugium?? I would like to use the refuguim for the delicate animals, but I would also like to provide the best water for the tank as well. Thanks for the replies.

 

Live rock is what most use exclusively for filtration the addition of a Refugium will help elliminate Nitrates something a wet/dry will not do. Wet/dry filters basically take care of the same things live rock does. Nitrites and Ammonia.
so if you have the room I would defiantly go with the refugium

J

BTW Welcome to 3reef

 

A refugium is best IMO as it allows you some flexibility in how you set it up and what you place in your refugium. It also can aid you water in quality, house food(pods etc. ), small inverts and fish, macroalgae, without the stress of it taking over your main tank. It can increase surface area and water volume as well. These are just some of the features of an added refugium to your system!

 

I was hoping to hear positive things concerning the refugium, because that is what I was really wanting to go with. Thanks a bunch, and more ? will come.

 

ok, i'm confused.... i started a thread about a refugium, and amcarrig told me that i couldn't have one unless i installed a sump.... well, i can have a hangon refugium, but from what i've been told, because of their size they don't offer much help... i was planning on putting a fuge under my tank and using a continuous siphon overflow...

 

So that is basically a Sump Refugium. you should try and make it big enough to house your heater, Skimmer and return pump. then you will have a Sump/Fuge

J