Less filtration !!!!!!!!

[Bderick67]

You will be fine, biologically speaking. With less turnover created by removing a filter you will probably see a drop in your mechanical filtration though.

When removing a filter I would keep close tabs on your water parameters for the first couple weeks.

 

[smitty03281964]

That is a big tank for 1 FX5 even with the water drip. But i think if you just try it you will get your answer. Everyone is just guessing.

 

[Bderick67]

That is a big tank for 1 FX5 even with the water drip. But i think if you just try it you will get your answer. Everyone is just guessing.

You assume everyone is just guessing. I ran my 450g off of a sump and two XP3s for over a year and had no issues with water params. Your experience is? You adding up a few of your tanks?

 

[y26tan18]

Beneficial bacteria will grow on every hard surface in the system, you'll need some bio but now where near the amounts that people commonly use. The bacteria grows to the amount of waste produced not the amount of bio in your filters.

so there's no point in over filtering then....

 

[Mudfrog]

so there's no point in over filtering then....

Sure there is. Over filtering is not "just" for beneficial bacteria.

 

[clekchau]

You assume everyone is just guessing. I ran my 450g off of a sump and two XP3s for over a year and had no issues with water params. Your experience is? You adding up a few of your tanks?

hey brian, what was the final filter configuration, was the xp3's the main source of mechanical filteration?

 

[Bderick67]

hey brian, what was the final filter configuration, was the xp3's the main source of mechanical filteration?

Currently the tank runs off of two FX5s and a 40-50g sump with about 1500-1600 GPH return pumps. The XP3s were set up for both bio and mech, never had any problems with water params so the bio was fine. The mech was lacking because of low flow rate, actual flow of an XP3 is less then 200 GPH. So upgrading to the FX5s showed improvement.