Wet Dry Systems

[Bassetdad]

I need some advice on setting up my 220 gallon aquarium.
I am refinishing the basement in my house; I am going to flush mount the face of aquarium into the wall so only the front of the aquarium is exposed. When the tank is fully operational, it will house various cichlids. With this large of a tank, I was told that I would need numinous canister filters operating in a series or a wet dry system. My two current questions for my fellow members is….

1) What size wet / dry filtration system do you recommend for a 220 gallon aquarium?

2) What brand do you recommend me purchasing?

Thanks in advance for all of your suggestions

Bassetdad

 

[TheFool]

I can't comment on wet drys - I would likely try to use either 2 or 3cannisters in parallel, or build a wet/dry type thing myself. For really big tanks some people use pond filters to good efect, but 220 gallons is not out of the normal.
As someone with an inwall, I would recommend drysealing your wall before fitting the tank back in, especially if it will be flush else you will get damp rpoblems along the back/sides of the tank, with peeling wallpaper, plaster and so on.

 

[Bassetdad]

Wet Dry System

Thanks for the suggestion of dry sealing the wall before I install the tank. I'm still leaning towards purchasing a Fluval FX5 to run next to my Fluval 404 for my filtration instead of the wet dry.