too much water flow

[fhsfiremanco1]

I have a 30 gal with live plants, angels, platies, swordtails, large school of zeba danios, 2 bala sharks and pleco (doesn't touch my plants oddly). Filtration I run two power filters a penguin 150 and a tetratec 150 (the tidel flow one with heater in the intake tube) as back up. and a rio 200 powerhead with prefilter.

Now my question is, is this too much water flow i know my water is over filtered but its not bad. should i remove the rio pump or is it fine in there?

another question I have is about another tank not set out yet a 55 gal. but i know whats going in there a red tiger oscar. what would my best bet be on Filtration a two pengiuns, or a canister never used canister fliters. have heard they are loud and hard to use. andthe biowheel is hard to beat.

thanks ahead of time.

 

[12 Volt Man]

for an easy filter that is large enough to handle the waste of a big oscar, consider the AquaClear 110.

you may find that any filter that has a cartridge insert will clog pretty quick with the bioload of a big, messy oscar.

thus, a big Aquaclear or a canister (eg. Rena XP2) is the way to go.

 

[12 Volt Man]

ps I don't think you have too much water flow unless your fish and plants are being blown everywhere.

 

[fhsfiremanco1]

they aren't being blown around the platies swim harder where i have the out put of the rio. they have alot of other places to swim but I kinda think they like it.

btw the turn over rate for it is 10.3

 

[fhsfiremanco1]

anyone got anything else to add?

anouther questioni am going to go with a small pea gravel for the oscar tank. should that be fine? i wanted to try sand but i read about it getting into the filters. does this happen alot?