Question About Filtration.

[jonny]

Guys,

I do more reading than posting here and over the last few days i have been looking at the filtration people have on their tanks.

I have a 205L tank quite heavily stocked with a Eheim 2126 thermo filter and my question is this.

Is this enough? I do not have any issues with the fish and the stats and good. No ammonia or Nitrite.

Cheers

Jon.

 

[Ferris]

At 950 litres per hour - that's only just over 4x tank volume and is unlikely to be enough for a heavily sticked Mbuna tank. It will be fine for juvenile/sub-adult fish but i would think about getting an additional filter before they become adults.

You want to be aiming at something like 10x tank volume turnover per hour for an adult Mbuna tank, roughly 2000 litres per hour in your case.

 

[jonny]

At 950 litres per hour - that's only just over 4x tank volume and is unlikely to be enough for a heavily sticked Mbuna tank. It will be fine for juvenile/sub-adult fish but i would think about getting an additional filter before they become adults.

You want to be aiming at something like 10x tank volume turnover per hour for an adult Mbuna tank, roughly 2000 litres per hour in your case.

Ok, thanks for that i will certainly look into it.

Can i ask this though? If you have two filters do i have to have to intakes and to outlets? Or can you connect two filters to one intake/outlet with some kind of 'Y' piece?

Cheers

Jon

 

[chishnfips]

You would need two in takes and out puts I would have thought. the pump in the filter will only be able to pump in the amount it states. Also its the biological filtration benfits you are after with two filters.

 

[jonny]

You would need two in takes and out puts I would have thought. the pump in the filter will only be able to pump in the amount it states. Also its the biological filtration benfits you are after with two filters.

I think you have me confused.

I mean:

Can i have two filters connected to the same intake and outlet with a 'Y' piece?

 

[chishnfips]

lol yeah I thought that too lol. i dont know maybe you could, might be quite awkward with where you position bith the filters

 

[Ferris]

Can i have two filters connected to the same intake and outlet with a 'Y' piece?

I don't see a problem with that on the outlet but keep the intakes seperate - otherwise there is no way to determine that the water is being evenly dispersed between the 2 filters and 1 may become overloaded while the other does very little.

Personally i would (and do) keep everything seperate - 2 outlets gives you more options with flow/current and surface agitation.