Have you thought about a sump? Since you have overflows, why not put a sump under the tank, or just another smaller aquarium, and run a couple of canisters in it? Nothing is visible then. And if you use inline heaters on the canisters, no need for an intank heater.
Hooking up canisters in line???
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All depends on if the canister can keep up with the water pumps. If the water pumps pump the water from the sump back to the tank is faster than what the canister can pump into the sump, then you'll have problems. Same with the other direction, you'll overflow the sump. So I'd have to say no because it's near impossible to get an exact match.
It is fine to run each system seperately, but when you start having water flow through two different pumps for the same water, you will run into overflowing messes. Not a good idea.
Yep, you found a loop hole. 
Bypass will work, but you still can run into problems. Why not just make a media tower with a drip plate, and eliminate the canister all together?
Bypass will work, but you still can run into problems. Why not just make a media tower with a drip plate, and eliminate the canister all together?
WyldFya;989699; said:
Exactly....
Now the only way I would ever run a sump and a canister together is to run the sump as normal, and then add the canister to the sump (both the intake and output are both in the sump), as an additional filtering in the sump itself, and not the tank.
fishguy23;991103; said:
The sump will also have both biological and mechanical, so nothing is missed. It will just be in addition to the sump.
