How many time do you think tank water should be circulated per hour? I have heard everything from 3 times to 15 times. All opinions welcome.
How many times filtration?
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I have gone by the rule of 10X for HOB's and 5X for canisters. On my 90gal I have a Fluval 404 and an AC110 for example. Redundancy is always good, if one fails the other is there to keep everything going... It really depends on how messy the fish are you put in and how many.
Burt
Burt
i go by ten times per hour with the H.O.B. but idk with canisters and wet/drys i dont have any big tanks. im guessing about 6-7 for canisters though
6~10 times as a general rule.
Things like filter type, fish type, size, count make a difference. even the food you use.
No matter what I wouldnt go less than 6 turns/hour. I dont count UG rate in my calculations either..
My tiny monsters have done well on 6~7 turns
Tada...
Things like filter type, fish type, size, count make a difference. even the food you use.
No matter what I wouldnt go less than 6 turns/hour. I dont count UG rate in my calculations either..
My tiny monsters have done well on 6~7 turns
Tada...
3-5x for heavily planted 6-10x for community tank 10x or more for big predators or lots of cichlids
The reason I was wondering s because on most filters, it has like 150 GPH for aquariums 10-30 gallons or on some filters it has 150 gph for UP TO 30 gallons. It has no lowest tank size so I guess it does matter about the fish.
I have canisters on my 180 filtering 5.5 times an hour. As long as it's canisters or wet/dry we're talking about, not crappy little internals, then 5 x an hour should be fine. Oh and as long as you have good filter media too, like ehfisubstrat etc
what he said. but also will depend on how under or overstocked you have it.
And a WET DRY is more efficient than either a cannister or HOB as far as biological filtration.
10x should be enough for a pretty densly stocked large predator tank, with regular good maintenance (water changes) for HOB or cannister. With W/D, you probably would be fine with 7-8x if its true wet dry (bio material not submerged).