I want to get peoples opinion for the best filter setup for rays for a 300 gallon setup. Pic would also help I am going to redo my filter and wanted to get the experts advise.
Best filter setup for rays
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This is the filter for my 300. I suppose I could try to make it simpler 
but lots of people would tell you you need to make it much more complicated.
but lots of people would tell you you need to make it much more complicated.
For my 340, heres my sump. 145g. 3 chambers, 2 with 800 scrubbies total 1 for pump return. I also run 2 FX5s full of media and 2x 100 micron sump socks. Also use 2 Koralia 1200 for additional water circulation. There are those who run much more sophisticated filtration but I will let them chime in on there setups.
Big sump or wet dry. Water changes are really important. I'm running a 100g sump with 20l pond matrix and a bunch of ceramic I just keep adding a little at a time. I keep 2 big sponge filters also incase anything ever happened to my sump. I have a 5500 gph pump, and have been thinking of adding a very large canister also for mech. I average over 300g per week in water changes which I think are probably one if not the most important part
Here is mine very easy to maintain with the filter socks doing all the mechanical filtration
I have since installed a spray bar over the drip plate and added some more 1" pvc for support between chambers
two 7" 100 micron socks and around 1,000 pot scrubbers 2/3 of which are submerged
I have since installed a spray bar over the drip plate and added some more 1" pvc for support between chambers
two 7" 100 micron socks and around 1,000 pot scrubbers 2/3 of which are submerged
I don't know if there is a best filter they pretty much all but not all do the same thing, bio and polish. Just make sure that it can cope with the load [no pun intended ] it will have to deal with plus some.
Yup. My filter pictured above is a 30 gallon tank and filters my 300+ tank with 4 rays very well.