New And Old Filter Flow Seems Too Much

[DaveA76]

upgraded my old tank to e new 1 and have got a new filter fluval 3 + the old tank had a fluval 3 i have placed the old and new filter in the new tank so to clone the new pump but the flow seems a little too much in the tank i have turned both the fillters dow to their minimum but it still seems a bit much, the fish in the tank are the usuall mollies guppies neons etc will this bother them ? pls the rattle from the old pump is getting on my nerves (which it has been for the last week)
how long do i need to leave both filters running in the tank till the new 1 is ok to run alone ?
is there any way i can transfer the old sponge (sponge tube type) into the new filter which uses the flat panel sponges as i cant work out how to do it but some of you may have don it before so could enlighten me so i can just run the 1 filter to cut down on the folw and the damn onnoying noise

thankyou in andvance
dave

 

[waterdrop]

..sorry to report dave that I think the usual period is a month.. but maybe others think I'm being too pessimistic? Hopefully someone will come along with a hot idea about media transfer tricks from a 3 to a 3+, but often I think people just "cobble" these things together and often its quite ugly I guess (ripping in to those nice neat cartridges etc.)

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[fatheadminnow]

I never had any experience with any of these filters, so sorry I cant help you out there.

But what I can help you on is that the high flow rate will not harm your fish, they will not mind the flow rate at all.

I agree with WD, I would, if you can't figure out a way to swap over media, is keep the new filter running for at least a month to seed it.

-FHM