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I originally was looking at the 2073 pro 3e eheim for my 75gallon, and was later advised that 2217's would be a better deal. That is still close to 300$ for those 2 bad boys however.
I'm having to crunch the pennies as much as possible because I have a lot of ordering to do in the next week: new light fixture and bulbs, glass canopy, uv sterilizer, 100$ worth of low tech plants and driftwood, and I recently(like yesterday) decided to get in to some photography and purchase my first DSLR camera. The camera and lens are gonna run me close to 500$ for just those 2 things. I just ordered a trio of different fancy plecs so that's another 100$ gone. Budget started out at $1000 after the above I technically have 30$ left for more filtration which is a duh think that I need to have ;p.
I was thinking about getting 2 of the fluval 404's for 85$ each and hopefully the wife loves me enough to let me go over my budget a smidge(she did want a new camera enyhow so she should go in halvsies with me right?!) so that should free up another 250 or so.. leaving me with 90 to get a pump and sponge for the UV sterilizer so I can hook it up to a prefilter and maximize it as well as the cansiters since I won't have to throttle the fluvals back.
Does this sound like a feasible idea? Will the fluval 404's do fine with the emp 400 on the back? I was told to use the emp 400 for mech filtration. What would I need to find/purchase for the 404's to increase their bio filtration.
In the end the tank will have 6-7 botia stiata's, 1 spotted medusa, 1 king tiger, 1 peppermint pleco, small school of lemon tetras or giant danios with 2-3 EBJD's depending on how they survive (which will be well I hope with proper filtration and uv sterilizer) and get along with each other.
Thanks for your advice and time!
I originally was looking at the 2073 pro 3e eheim for my 75gallon, and was later advised that 2217's would be a better deal. That is still close to 300$ for those 2 bad boys however.
I'm having to crunch the pennies as much as possible because I have a lot of ordering to do in the next week: new light fixture and bulbs, glass canopy, uv sterilizer, 100$ worth of low tech plants and driftwood, and I recently(like yesterday) decided to get in to some photography and purchase my first DSLR camera. The camera and lens are gonna run me close to 500$ for just those 2 things. I just ordered a trio of different fancy plecs so that's another 100$ gone. Budget started out at $1000 after the above I technically have 30$ left for more filtration which is a duh think that I need to have ;p.
I was thinking about getting 2 of the fluval 404's for 85$ each and hopefully the wife loves me enough to let me go over my budget a smidge(she did want a new camera enyhow so she should go in halvsies with me right?!) so that should free up another 250 or so.. leaving me with 90 to get a pump and sponge for the UV sterilizer so I can hook it up to a prefilter and maximize it as well as the cansiters since I won't have to throttle the fluvals back.
Does this sound like a feasible idea? Will the fluval 404's do fine with the emp 400 on the back? I was told to use the emp 400 for mech filtration. What would I need to find/purchase for the 404's to increase their bio filtration.
In the end the tank will have 6-7 botia stiata's, 1 spotted medusa, 1 king tiger, 1 peppermint pleco, small school of lemon tetras or giant danios with 2-3 EBJD's depending on how they survive (which will be well I hope with proper filtration and uv sterilizer) and get along with each other.
Thanks for your advice and time!
