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Here you will find information about Canister Filters, a filter that is ideally used for mechanical and/or chemical filtration in a saltwater aquarium, but many of which are designed to include biological filtration capabilities as well.

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About Canister Filters
Your About Guides to Saltwater Aquariums give their overview on canister filters, what they are, how they are used for aquarium filtration, and buying considerations such as the importance of calculating water flow rates and features to look for.

About Freshwater Guide's Top Canister Picks
Shirlie Sharpe, your About Guide to Freshwater Aquariums gives her reviews on what she considers to be the Top 5 Canister Filter choices on the market.

About Saltwater Guides Top Canister Picks
Your About Guides to Saltwater Aquariums give their reviews on what they consider to be 8 of the best choices in canister filters on the market.

Buyer's Guide to Canister Filters
From the Aquarian's Net Buyer's Guide Index, here you will find a table of canister filters listed by company and product names that are rated by site visitors, along with other basic product information about them, such as tank size, flow rate, and cost.

Canister Filter FAQs
From Robert Fenner's WetWebMedia Filtration FAQs, Robert gives his answers to frequently asked questions about using and setting up canister filters in a marine aquarium, including some discussions about particular brand names.

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Canister Filter Polls
From your About Saltwater Aquarium Set Up Polls Index, take this quick poll to tell your Guides and other saltwater aquarists if you use a canister filter with your system. If you do, then tell them what type of filtation you use it for, and what brand name of canister you have.

Canister Filters
From Winston Schoenfeld's Suite101.com Aquariums site, Winston gives his profile on canister filters, and how they are best used for saltwater aquarium filtration.

Canister Type Filters
From Robert Fenner's WetWebMedia Articles Archive, this article about Mechanical Filtration covers all types of filters used for this purpose, including a section on Canister Types.

Hang-On-Tank Canister Filters
From the Reef Sources Guide section, a brief overveiw about mechanical filtration, and how H.O.T. style canister filters can be a good water filtering or pre-filtering tool.

Mechanical Filtration
In this Glitter Lines publication by J. Charles Delbeek, originally published in 1996, under the mechanical filtration section he discusses what this type of filtration is, which applies when it comes to using a canister filter.

Proquatics/Renaissance Canister Filter Review
Did you know that Proquatics Canister Filters are what used to be the Renaissance Primes? Get all the details in this Proquatics Canister Filter Product Review from your About Guides.

The Canister Filter
From FINS Aquarium Filtration FAQ's contributed by Bruce Hallman, a basic outline of how a canister filter works.

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