gph for 55 gallon?

[ProblEmZ]

Whisper 60 +300 gph- with a large sponge in one basket and regular filter pouch and sponge it came with in the other basket
Emperor 400 +400 gph- with an AC 110 sponge cut to fit one basket, and filter pouch empied of carbon and Media basket with fliter floss.
AC 402 PH
w/quickfilter +270gph- packed with filter floss/rinsed during every water change

970gph heheh

With weekly waterchanges as well as alternating rinsing and changing of media when necessary.

 

[vanimate]

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

 

[metant]

I am using 300 gph for a 55 gal tank. It will also depend on your filter media. The more filter media the better.

 

[Lil_Stinker]

Each of my 55gs have 350gph
Marineland/Penguin 350/360s w/biowheel & quad cartriges
I had a second smaller unit with just bio, but the balance got wacked.

My 46 has 340 (2x Pen 170s)

The 10s have 70

My general theory: turn the tank at least 6-7 times per hour
Never more than 10 mins per turn.

& I don't count undergravel in the turns.

 

[Slim2634]

i think that 10 turns per hour is good? i will go by that in future tanks but i will tweak the rule depending on how many fish i got

 

[guppy]

If the filter is actually sucking the scales off your fish you might want to downgrade a notch.

 

[Lil_Stinker]

If the filter is actually sucking the scales off your fish you might want to downgrade a notch.

Now that is a good point..

I better get over to the tank & pull that neon off the 8000gph .... Oh nevermind ho just ended up in the filter with the oscar