What Would Be Good?

[riggs111]

hey again guys,
im after some answers sorry to be a pain!

im doing a moss wall as a background to cover the whole of the rear of my tank
with my moss wall being on the rear of the tank where my heater is, will it make a diff if i put the heater on the side wall??

i want to get rid of my interpet pf2 internal filter and i want an external filter because i dont want a massive internal filter in my tankj because it takes up space and looks horrible, also i am looking into buying a bigger tank maybe a 125L roma or something around that figure, what can you reccomend?

thanks guys, adam

 

[Skins]

Hello Adam,
I'm fairly new to this hobby, regarding your heater i can't see there being a problem. If it is a problem then i'm sure someone will steer you in right direction. As for the Roma 125 this is a tank that i use with an external filter(Fluval 205) which is serving me well. If you live in the UK then www.seapets.co.uk have good deals on the complete Roma range.
Hope this helps, Skins.

 

[Vidster]

I also have a Roma 125. I am using a tetratec 600 external filter and it is perfect for the job. Having the thermostat on the side of the tank should be fine as long as there is plenty of flow over it.

I also want a wall of moss but haven't got around to researching it yet

 

[riggs111]

oh thanks for the reply vidster and skin. im unsure on what moss to get tbh, i want the moss to look like its growing downwards but dont know what moss that is or will java moss work! thanks for the replies guys!

adam

 

[Aqua Tom]

I think you need to talk to our plant guys. There is a section just for plants.

 

[waterdrop]

Java moss is usually the easiest moss to grow from what I understand. There was a university moss expert that spoke at the IAGA conference 2 years ago and it was quite fascinating, all the types of moss and their life cycles.

If you are investing in an external cannister filter and are concerned with clearing your aquascape of equipment, consider looking at the Hydor Inline heaters. These splice into the output tube of your cannister filter where the water is coming back up to the tank. they hang on the back of your tank, completely out of the tank and have the best heat circulation possible because the warmed water is shooting out from your spraybar. You have to match the heater and tube width.

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[riggs111]

oh thanks for the advice waterdrop, i was considering buying a fluval 205 filter, would that be too much for my 60L?
the spray bar i presume comes with the filter? would it have to spray water on the top of the tank water or could i submerse it?

this hydoor inline heater i wire it to the filter?

thanks for the reply wd

adam

 

[waterdrop]

Doing your homework to size a filter takes some web digging. You want to find the real specs of the filters (the volume per hour flowrate, not some tank size that a marketing person says it can do, although all this stuff is off a bit so its usually not that different.) Then you want to figure out which models would give you somewhere around 5x turnover rate (number of times your tank volume would be filtered per hour) (we see perhaps 4x through 10x as numbers in members tanks but 10x is more on the planted tank specialty side of things.) Actual filter performance will always be less than what the specs make you think, at least by a little bit, so slightly more than you want is usually about right.

You might want to consider the Rena, Tetratec/Marineland and Eheim filter models that would match the Fluval 205 you are considering (after you've prepared yourself with numbers) as the Fluval would need a lot of transition adapters to make its strange tubing work with the Inline heaters.

Part of the pleasure of the hobby, hopefully, is slowing down and enjoying all these different little investigations into things, lol.

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[riggs111]

thanks for that amazing advice WD! advice well on board! im been searching alot today tbh, and ive recently come across the rena range! xp1 looks like a good un tbh but it only comes with one media basket, would it be worth going up to a rena xp2? the 2 is the same as the one but its got a higher fflow rate and one more media in it so its go two as apposed to the one! would that make a diff? what do you reckon?
i also like the hydor prime 10?, but i dunno would i have problems buying media for it? i cant find loads tbh.
adam