Rightnow I do about 10-25% water changes on the 30 Breeder every other - every 2 days depending on the mood I'm in each week. All my tanks get water changes could times a week accept the 20 long I do that once a week. So weeks I feel I do too much tinkering with my tanks. My fish love it though. All eating well and growing big.
Filtration Delima!
- Thread starter MoonPieDog
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Thanks I'll keep that in mind. Question for you. Do you think the FX5 is work all the hype it gets.? I thought about it, yet I've hear good and bad things about it. I work in a pet store and the fish guys say I could use the FX5. I've thought about doign a sump do I can have the massive bio I'm wanting. Some have suggested 2 canisters. One for Bio and the other for Mechanical.
For large tanks, it is either multiple canisters or a sump. A wet/dry can be customized to work for mechanical as well. Most use simple sponge prefilters or a thin layer of polyester sheet in the drip tray; however, multiple large filter socks can provide excellent mechanical filtration or even better would be an entire prefilter chamber filled with varying types of Matala or even a WD filled with Matala which has been done. Check here for some ideas, similar medias can be used the same way. http://www.matalausa.com/subcat30.html
Yes the FX5 is worth all the hype because its so affordable IMO. It could probably handle your entire bioload if set up properly and it does a great job of mechanical filtration. However on that size tank just to be safe I would run an ac110 as well just in case.
