The right filtration?????

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Joey47;2600135; said:
i have a 125 with 2 ac110's and a fx5. i think that should be good for a 150. just load up the fx5 with all bio media.

Dude, that is enough filtration for 2-125 gallon tanks.

I like to move my water but I once ran my 180 gallon with a single FX5. No problems what-so-ever. 1" in and 1" out gives you something like 980 gph.

As long as you change your water often, you will be fine with your 350's. I run 2 sponge filters on 30 gallon grow-out tanks with no issues either.
 
Guapote;2601089; said:
Dude, that is enough filtration for 2-125 gallon tanks.

I like to move my water but I once ran my 180 gallon with a single FX5. No problems what-so-ever. 1" in and 1" out gives you something like 980 gph.

As long as you change your water often, you will be fine with your 350's. I run 2 sponge filters on 30 gallon grow-out tanks with no issues either.

Careful making blanket statements like these. The size and number of filters is not entirely dependent on tank size. After all, if you have 1 guppy in a 125, you can do entirely without filtration (provided you do not over feed). If you have two oscars in a 50 gallon, you will need very good filtration to keep up with the mess and ammonia.

I would like to caution the OP to check and trust the readings of his test kits (which he should have and use) over generic statements of posters who don't even know what/how much the OP feeds the tank or how often he does water changes.
 
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