bro,
for filtration can i use ios? But for ios will it reduce the tank size? Cause the tank will be place at the bottom tier and canister filter cant be use so i've can only think of ios/ious. What you suggest?
I'm not too sure about IOS as I don't really have any experience using them myself, you could use an over tank filter, like a glass box on top of the tank full of biomedia, with a pump in the tank. The water would be pumped from the tank and run through the mechanical media and biomedia, and the filtered water would return to the tank by gravity.