WATER CHANGE

[Finalfire9]

Oh jeez

 

[Finalfire9]

Should i really explain this?

 

[Finalfire9]

Wattage doesn't mean anything. GPH doesn't mean anything. The ability to host bacteria that metabolizes ammonia and nitrite is. Pretty sure you can build a 200w small chambered filter that can push 2000 GPH, but it's ability to do what a biological filter needs to do would be very low Just like in chemical and nuclear sciences, I would imagine the reaction cross section of the media (surface area) + volume of media + water flow rate + biological reaction rates are the key factors to a biological filter. Efficiency in power (directly propertional to flow rate) and in size (available biomedia surface area) are the main factors in modern filters.

Gph and wattage they are directly related to cleaning power. You saying that watts dont matter nor does gph Thats the same as saying hp and torque has nothing to do with speed or power in a car when it does obvouisly it does 1 horsepower = 745.699872 watts


DarthV Have you ever had the exp of hooking up a 2000gph pump to small filtered media? If you havent i have. 2000gph is about 50watts actually Ive tried 1500-2200gph hooked up to 2 square yards of multilayered cloth and it is as powerful as 6-8 emperor 400's yet compact as the size of two footballs


Ive done the tests and built dozens of my own filters from skimmers wetdry sump trickle systems eh but the method of filtration i perfer is water forced thro multilayed cloth and carbon with large surface area in a very small space. ya when it comes down to it watts matter it shows the brute power of your filter and that is directly related to how fast it can keep up with the output of waste by your fish.

 

[DarthV]

Any data sets and graphs to demonstrate the drop in ammonia & nitrite with wattage? Same for flow rate vs rate of metabolization of ammonia/nitrite?

Flow and power would be directly related to mechanical filtration, obviously.