gph for 55 gallon?
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if the holey rock will cost a fortune i want to go get some nice big pieces of driftwood at the local lake. i found 3 pieces and so far i have sprayed them down and baked them. i was thinking maybe i should soak them over and over again to keep it from staining my tank water brown and then baking again. i have a bathroom in my basement that i havent been using much so im gonna use it.
great plan
keep looking for the holey rock, you might be able to find a deal. I never looked really hard because I dont have a lot of cichlids.
i think its fun to find the wood and clean it. you get to pick any wood you want for free and you get a huge selection
its sweet because you can get as much as you wantIf you would accept something other then Holey rock, check out some of the local landscape supplies rocks selections. I found a bunch of black granite that looks amazing for .18 a lb.....
I always like to say "The more the merrier" (GPH that is) You can never be overfiltered!
Right now on my 75g I have a eheim 2250 and a 2028 and a double stacked sponge w/ a powerhead and a penguin 330. Funny thing is that there are only two 3.5 inch thinbars in the tank! (this is only temporary of course)
Right now on my 75g I have a eheim 2250 and a 2028 and a double stacked sponge w/ a powerhead and a penguin 330. Funny thing is that there are only two 3.5 inch thinbars in the tank! (this is only temporary of course)
I always like to say "The more the merrier" (GPH that is) You can never be overfiltered!
Right now on my 75g I have a eheim 2250 and a 2028 and a double stacked sponge w/ a powerhead and a penguin 330. Funny thing is that there are only two 3.5 inch thinbars in the tank! (this is only temporary of course)
My tank turns every 5 minutes. How often does yours turn? Every 5 seconds? Or do you just keep the fish in the filter? LOL
I've got my 55 cycling approx. once every 4 minutes... I have a Rena Filstar XP3 and an Emperor 400 running on it... currently the expansion baskets in the 400 are just carbon, but since i added a bag of carbon to my XP3, I'm going to fill both expansion baskets in my 400 with biological media... the XP3 already has half a liter of Matrix in it, (which is what I'll put in the Emperor) and the Emperor comes stock with 2 big ass bio wheels... so I think I should have adequate filtration to keep this tank nice and healthy.
