Hey,
a while ago I decided to go for another direction and sold my bichirs and CA cichlids.
I now have two 6.5ft tanks with similar stocking:
6.5ft by 22in by 20in
-3 Astronotus ocellatus / oscars
-8 Myleus schomburgkii var. 2 / small blackbelt silverdollar
-1 Pterygoplichthys gibbiceps / sailfin pleco
-1 Mastacembelus dayi / black spotted eel
- 5 Yasuhikotakia modesta / black red finned loaches
6.5ft by 20in by 20in
-2 Astronotus ocellatus / oscars
-7 Myloplus rubripinnis / red hook silverdollars
-1 Hypostomus commersoni
-10 Chromobotia macracanthus / clown loaches
The goal is to keep a pair of oscars in each of the tanks but I was able to get only juvenile fish.
I will buy one more so there are 3 in both tanks and maybe keep them all together when reaching sexual maturity to make them form pairs.
But the filtration is the topic now.
Right now there is a 1.700 l/h canister on the 145gal so it's pumping 3x the volume per hour.
I want to put a 2.000 l/h canister on this tank PLUS a mat filter (measuring 54x48x3 cm) with an additional 1.000 l/h adding up to 3.000 l/h which is 5,45 times the volume of this tank.
Similar for the 132gal:
This one gets the 1.700 l/h canister and a mat filter (48x48x3 cm) with a 1.000 l/h pump as well.
Adding up to 2.700 l/h which is 5,4 times the volume of this tank.
Of course I am including mechanical and biological media.
This should be alright as far as I am concerned.
If I did forget anything or if I got something wrong please feel free to correct me and give your opinion on this topic.
a while ago I decided to go for another direction and sold my bichirs and CA cichlids.
I now have two 6.5ft tanks with similar stocking:
6.5ft by 22in by 20in
-3 Astronotus ocellatus / oscars
-8 Myleus schomburgkii var. 2 / small blackbelt silverdollar
-1 Pterygoplichthys gibbiceps / sailfin pleco
-1 Mastacembelus dayi / black spotted eel
- 5 Yasuhikotakia modesta / black red finned loaches
6.5ft by 20in by 20in
-2 Astronotus ocellatus / oscars
-7 Myloplus rubripinnis / red hook silverdollars
-1 Hypostomus commersoni
-10 Chromobotia macracanthus / clown loaches
The goal is to keep a pair of oscars in each of the tanks but I was able to get only juvenile fish.
I will buy one more so there are 3 in both tanks and maybe keep them all together when reaching sexual maturity to make them form pairs.
But the filtration is the topic now.
Right now there is a 1.700 l/h canister on the 145gal so it's pumping 3x the volume per hour.
I want to put a 2.000 l/h canister on this tank PLUS a mat filter (measuring 54x48x3 cm) with an additional 1.000 l/h adding up to 3.000 l/h which is 5,45 times the volume of this tank.
Similar for the 132gal:
This one gets the 1.700 l/h canister and a mat filter (48x48x3 cm) with a 1.000 l/h pump as well.
Adding up to 2.700 l/h which is 5,4 times the volume of this tank.
Of course I am including mechanical and biological media.
This should be alright as far as I am concerned.
If I did forget anything or if I got something wrong please feel free to correct me and give your opinion on this topic.
