Can you have to much filtration?

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Jack Dempsey
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I have a bunch of filters lying around the house do I ended up putting them on my 26 gallon bowfront. I now have a fluval G3, fluval C3 and an aqueon 30 gal filter. Is this ok, I'm worried about all the water output creating a current that is to strong on the top of the water. The fish in the tank are a 4" red parrot cichlid, 4" jack Dempsey and five .5"-2" syno petricola's. Decorations in the tank are a nice driftwood piece, some flat rocks leaned against the drift wood to creat caves, and a small pot that turned over with a small cut hole only accessible by the petricola's. The fish seem to be fine because there're not forced to swim but there is some very strong current at the top of the tank. It kinda reminds me of the Congo river watching the waves splash against each other. Is this a problem?


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If fish happy, not problem. If using normal media, not problem. Start feeling some concern if find out using specialized or strange media, eg, activated carbon, ion-exchange resin, etc, etc. If some fish start feeling dizzy living in rapids, suggest this idea:

Slower, normal flow rate through a sump / refugium / spare settlement tank, etc, then go crazy and add 100 x different filters to this added tank space, also do not forget internal filters, at least fill 66.67% of this added spare space will internal filters, leaving enough room for intake and outlet pipes for dozens and dozens of external pressurized filters, wet-dry trickle filters, HOB filters, algae scrubber chambers, foam-fractionators, diatom filters, moving-bed filters, rotary drum filters, using up more electricity to worry drug enforcement police unit big time, get environmental protest groups outside front door, start up own website "MonsterFilters.com" and yet, your fish just swim happy in tank, so calm, so peaceful, no idea so much filtration going on all around everywhere outside, LOL!

Kuji out.
 
Kujiraya said:
If fish happy, not problem. If using normal media, not problem. Start feeling some concern if find out using specialized or strange media, eg, activated carbon, ion-exchange resin, etc, etc. If some fish start feeling dizzy living in rapids, suggest this idea:

Slower, normal flow rate through a sump / refugium / spare settlement tank, etc, then go crazy and add 100 x different filters to this added tank space, also do not forget internal filters, at least fill 66.67% of this added spare space will internal filters, leaving enough room for intake and outlet pipes for dozens and dozens of external pressurized filters, wet-dry trickle filters, HOB filters, algae scrubber chambers, foam-fractionators, diatom filters, moving-bed filters, rotary drum filters, using up more electricity to worry drug enforcement police unit big time, get environmental protest groups outside front door, start up own website "MonsterFilters.com" and yet, your fish just swim happy in tank, so calm, so peaceful, no idea so much filtration going on all around everywhere outside, LOL!

Kuji out.
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Ok thanks. Haha. I have another question though. Is there a point were you have so much filtration that it doesn't even matter, like say you have 4 filters on a 55 gallon tank and they all filter 400 gph, will it make a difference of have 2 of the filters because there isn't a difference of have 4


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boldtogether said:
Why not run 4 filters rated 400gph ea. on a 50g? Use two for bio only and two for mechanical only.
If fish happy, then we happy right?
Fish happy?
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Why waste electricity? If you need 4x 400g filters to effectively filter a 50g tank, then you are lacking in the research aspect of the hobby.
 
Think about it people, what are we talking, 20-40w tops? Thats pennies a month. Two of the filters would be bio-only, very little if any maintenance required.
Now, 4 FX5's on a fifty, thats overkill. 4 HOB's on a fifty? Thats a standard grow-out garage tank.
 
So four AC110s or Emp 400s on a 55g tank? :duh: What a waste of $200 in filters when one AC110 will effectively filter a 55g no matter what the stock.

Pennies a month add up,At 10 cents per kilowatt hour it costs a little more then a buck a month to run an AC110. Mutliply by 3 on multiple tanks and now your talking over a 100 bucks a year wasted. Senseless :screwy:
 
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