HI everyone, I am new to the the forum but have been checking it out for awhile. I recentley just purchased a 125 gallon tank with 2 rena xp3, 2 heaters, and a whole mess of lava rock. I just built a stand for it and have the tank in place. I am currentley leaning towards doing a SA cichlid tank. Do I need to run both filters to properly turn over the tank. It has a flow rate of 350 GPH. The filters did not come with any filtration media, and there are several different ones for each canister, so I am a little confused.
Setting up 125 Gallon - Need Imput
- Thread starter DarthMaul
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Hi and Welcome MFK. My xp3 came with 4 sponges for fisrt section,media stars for second section,charcoal pad and fine floss disc for the top and final setion. I added some ceramic rings with the rena media stars myself for mid section and some fine filter floss for the top. I would use both depending on the amount of fish your going to stock.
i would run them both. i run an xp3 and a emperor 400 on mine. use one for biological and the other for chemical. also keep the bottom foam in both of them. goodluck
Mr Pleco;1479155; said:
Sorry I didn't make that clear, There are several differen't types of filteration media that rena offers. 20 and 30 ppi foam, micro-filtration pad, Bio-chem Zorb, Nitra Zorb, Phos Zorb, Activated Carbon, Bio-chem Stars, ceramic rings. Which ones do I need for the for the biological filter, and which do i need for the chemical filter?
Thanks
I have 2 each of foam in mechanical bottom section,boichem stars in the middle biofilter,activated carb pad and fine floss for top chemical
i run sponges on the bottom ehfisubstrat pro in the middle and my last is more substat pro with bio chem zorb and polishing pad.
Cichlids tend to be messy, I would use both canisters. Besides, redundancy in filtration can be good.