Fahaka owners/ Your tank and filters?

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Bawb2u

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Just curious as to what size tank and how much filtration other fahaka owners are using.
My setup: Fish is currently 8 inches, living solo, housed in a 180 (72"x24"x24") tank, running a Fluval 404, a Fluval 403 and a 40 gallon sump with a 10 gallon bio-chamber powered by a Hagen 802 powerhead, with 2 250 watt heaters set at 80F.
Maintainence schedule is weekly 75 gallon water changes with daily spot-cleaning of leftover pieces of food and any large dumps.
 
I just got mine yesterday he is 4 inches in a 75 gal. Going into the 120 in about a month. 30 gal sump and 2 ac110s
 
That sounds pretty good. How often do you clean out the canisters? I prefer to use large HOB filters (I've got 2 Aquaclear 500s) & a large canister (Eheim 2217) for easier, more frequent cleaning. I do much larger WC (75%) but my fahaka allows tankmates & the tank is only 125g.
 
bitteraspects;2592309; said:
sounds like you got more then enough filtration for your fahaka. just make sure to pull out the shells and other uneaten bits of food after feeding.
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Yeah, I went overkill on the filtration but I figured I had them so I may as well use them. My tank is actually drilled 3x, so I plumbed the 2 canister filters through the side of the tank. Like I posted, I actually do spot cleaning every day, more for looks than anything else. I have a filter sock set up on the side of the sump with an open faced stand, I just siphon up any leftovers into the sock and dump it once a day.

Pufferpunk;2592323; said:
That sounds pretty good. How often do you clean out the canisters? I prefer to use large HOB filters (I've got 2 Aquaclear 500s) & a large canister (Eheim 2217) for easier, more frequent cleaning. I do much larger WC (75%) but my fahaka allows tankmates & the tank is only 125g.
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I clean one canister every water change. I bought a bunch of the bonded blue filter pads and cut them to size for each of the filters, so I just pop out the old ones and drop in clean ones and rinse the pre-filter material. Same with the bio-chamber. It's got a drip plate with a blue filter foam piece sitting up on eggcrate, that gets changed for a clean piece every week.
 
Im going to be lurking around this forum for awhile...I think my next adventure is going to be with a Fahaka.
 
I got mine yesterday and he is awesome already relaxed checking out the whole tank Doesn't quite realize I'm the food source yet but he's a blast to watch.
 
All my HOBs are very old Aquaclears. They last forever!
 
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