affordale filteration for 125gal

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Nevermind. found it.
 
I bought two fluval fx5s off of ebay for under $180 each shipped. my other 6 tanks are all filtered by sponge filters which are as cheap as you can get. I think the biggest sponge filter may have been $30 bucks.
 
imnickg;2262999; said:
myfilters suck i need a reliable filter fora 125gal
i heqard the fluval fx5 was good
but its like 200 bucks minimum
im workinon minimum wage here
thanks
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2 Aqua Clear 110's is plenty. I used 2 on a 150 which was heavily stocked. I never saw ammonia or nitrite in my tank once. People add like ten or buy $400 canisters for no other reason then machoness and trying to be Tim the Tool Man Tailor. I have a 150 gallon running for like 3 years now on only two AC 110's. The stock is a breeding pair of jags and like a million babies. I feed the babies like nuts then remove them for selling, to repeat the cycle. So if my water quality is good enough to raise fry, my friend you will be fine with only 2 110's
 
Chago09;2267638; said:
2 Aqua Clear 110's is plenty. I used 2 on a 150 which was heavily stocked. I never saw ammonia or nitrite in my tank once. People add like ten or buy $400 canisters for no other reason then machoness and trying to be Tim the Tool Man Tailor. I have a 150 gallon running for like 3 years now on only two AC 110's. The stock is a breeding pair of jags and like a million babies. I feed the babies like nuts then remove them for selling, to repeat the cycle. So if my water quality is good enough to raise fry, my friend you will be fine with only 2 110's
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its true people generally have more filtration than needed.

if your water is clear, and your ammonnia/nitrite is zero, without killing yourself doing water changes every other day etc. you have enough filtration.

these are the criteria to guage if you do or not.

problem is, every tank is different.

you can always add more filtration later on if needed assuming you have the power recepticals to do it.
 
Do a diy wet dry filter you will be happy you did.
 
thanks for all the info guys

i have a pos cannister and a aqua clear 50on it right now
and my ViaAqua 750 Canister Filteron my 65 is leakin like crazy

so im about to go pik up a few filters here soon
 
justordered 2!

in my 125 theres:
2 jack dempseys
2 african butter...... sumthins there gettin huge
2 reen terrors
2 fire mouths
2 albino oscars
1 tiger oscar
1 red oscare
2 funnylookin cat fish
3 big plecos
1 yellow lab
1 cobalt blue
1 other african cichlid i dnt know what he is
1 pike cichlid

in my 65 i have
5 blood parrots
1 kirrin/killin parrot
1 angel fish
1 red tail shark fish
1 bichir
13 baby kigoma frontosa
2 chocolate plecos
1 regular pleco
 
wow those tanks are so overstocked. I assume there all small now so your tank is fine and the fish are fine. Slowly as they grow you will start to run into problems. I wouldn't recomend keeping it like that for much longer.
 
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