2250 with 2260 or 62 pump

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I've pieced together info here and there from reading a lot of threads but has anyone had any trouble or success with switching my 2250 stock pump to a 1260 or 1262 pump?

I know the elbow needs to be replaced. Have that all dialed in and have located a site to order from through a similar post.

Just need to know if the shorter 2250 canister can stand up to 900gph flow. I figure if I'm going to spend 150 on a 1260 pump for 600gph why not spend an extra 20 bucks or so and get 1262 pump for my rays.

Currently running 2 eheim 2217 and a eheim 2250. All my levels stay in check with 50% wc about once a week. Will be uprgading my tank at some point and I want to buy one pump one time.

Tank is 150gallon breeder and stock is 3rays 4 dats, silver aro and 3 weeksi polys.

Can the 2250 handle the flow or should I just go with 1260 pump? Have a guy selling me 1260 pump tomorrow fairly new for 100 which id rather spend extra 60 bucks and tripple instead of double my flow rate.
 
Is the 900gph flow even beneficial to the bateria in my little 2250 canister? I heard something about the water having to be in contact with the bacteria for sometime to have an effect etc. 2250 is practically full of eheim media and several fine spounges and one coarse spounge.
 
TakeNotes said:
Is the 900gph flow even beneficial to the bateria in my little 2250 canister? I heard something about the water having to be in contact with the bacteria for sometime to have an effect etc. 2250 is practically full of eheim media and several fine spounges and one coarse spounge.
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I have 2250 as well and would like to know the effects on the bacteria with extra flow thru the media.

OP, I think you will be fine adding the extra flow. The lids on the 2260/62 and the 2250 are the same. I dont know if you know this already but 1260 pump can be modded to the 1262 with a changing of a part. So if you change your mind with the flow you can just change a part.
 
TakeNotes said:
Is the 900gph flow even beneficial to the bateria in my little 2250 canister? I heard something about the water having to be in contact with the bacteria for sometime to have an effect etc. 2250 is practically full of eheim media and several fine spounges and one coarse spounge.
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Thats funny you think the 2250 is little.
The only thing I would be concerned about would be blowing out the seal. The 1260 is mo reasonable pump for the 2250, but I know people that have put 750-800gph through the 2250, but the filter didn't have any mechanical. Just bio.
Currently I am running a RioHP12, about 750gph through my 2250, and through a UV. It has no mechanical, just Ehiem Effisubstrate Pro. I plumbed it through a bulkhead in my sump and the Rio is submerged in the sump. The filter discharges through the UV back into the sump. My Returns put 1600+gph back into the tank so my bio setup is "sampling" the water in the sump.
 
boldtogether said:
Thats funny you think the 2250 is little.
The only thing I would be concerned about would be blowing out the seal. The 1260 is mo reasonable pump for the 2250, but I know people that have put 750-800gph through the 2250, but the filter didn't have any mechanical. Just bio.
Currently I am running a RioHP12, about 750gph through my 2250, and through a UV. It has no mechanical, just Ehiem Effisubstrate Pro. I plumbed it through a bulkhead in my sump and the Rio is submerged in the sump. The filter discharges through the UV back into the sump. My Returns put 1600+gph back into the tank so my bio setup is "sampling" the water in the sump.
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In the shadow of a 2260/2 its small lol and when you keep rays everyfilter seems inadequate with the amount of food they consume.

When you said sampling were u speaking in terms of the bacteria not having much time to work? Or is this some term I'm unfamiliar with. I don't want to increase flow if the benefit of bacteria will be decreased. I guess that my ultimate question. Is more flow better or worse in my case? I'm only running a fat spounge and tons of eheim media with a fat bag of carbon until next service then I might remove the carbon as I already removed it from my 2217 in the same system
 
When I say "sampling" I mean, with 1600+gph flowing through my sump, the 700gph or so is just a sample of the total amount going through the sump. If you have a canister, it filters only what the down tube draws to it. In my set up, the media is exposed to what is in the sump at the time.
The only thing I see with running a huge flow through your media would be the "scrubbing" of the media mass off of the media with the hiogh flow. But since the bacteria mostly occupy the interior of the media, I wouldn't worry much about it. Don't forget, a very large portion of the BB in an established system is not confined to the media in the filter. It is all over the interior of the tank, concentrated in the substrate.
A heaslthy aquarium is going to need at least 5x turnover. A 150g tank would need 750 gph. That one 2250 with a 1260 pump would be adequate for that tank.
The other filters you have will be bonus. Save the $20.
 
boldtogether said:
When I say "sampling" I mean, with 1600+gph flowing through my sump, the 700gph or so is just a sample of the total amount going through the sump. If you have a canister, it filters only what the down tube draws to it. In my set up, the media is exposed to what is in the sump at the time.
The only thing I see with running a huge flow through your media would be the "scrubbing" of the media mass off of the media with the hiogh flow. But since the bacteria mostly occupy the interior of the media, I wouldn't worry much about it. Don't forget, a very large portion of the BB in an established system is not confined to the media in the filter. It is all over the interior of the tank, concentrated in the substrate.
A heaslthy aquarium is going to need at least 5x turnover. A 150g tank would need 750 gph. That one 2250 with a 1260 pump would be adequate for that tank.
The other filters you have will be bonus. Save the $20.
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Thanks. With 2 2217 at 256gph and the 2250 at about 317gph I'm at 820+gph on a 150 gallon. Ray getting bigger so ill go with the 1260 to bring it to 1100gph or so. I know that as the lines get build up etc the flow is reduced so I wanted to play it super safe.

THANKS. Ill go with 1260pump on 2250 and my two 2217 just for peace of mind.
 
Did the math and right now I'm at about 5.4x turn over assuming the flow is at maximum potential which I'm sure its not with all the media and build up internally ( the hoses I clean every so often) switching to 1260 puts me at about 7.3x turnover best case scenario. So I think the upgrade is a must to keep things inline when the filters are slacking. I rotate them and clean one at a time every 3 months or so
 
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