XP3 for a 125g

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OscarHook

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Do you all think that this would be enough or should i also add some hanging filters? I am going tomorrow to check out the 125 in the paper and it says it comes with filters so i will check them out. I cant get a filter over $100 dollars, and i figure $99.99 at BigAls is using all that $100 and its free shipping until Monday night at midnight. So let me know if you think that is a good filter, and i know i tried to talk my Dad into spending more money but he said we wont spend that much on a filter, talking about the eheim, until we get are saltwater back up and running, that is his baby.
 
The XP3 is rated for a 75 gallon tank. I'd add a couple of series V bio-sponge filters with a good deepwater air pump.

With a hundred bucks, you could build your own wet/dry filter, plumb it, pump it, and have a few bucks left over. Check out the varied threads in the DIY forum.
 
At BigAlsOnline.com it says that the Rena XP3 is suited for a tank of 175?
 
Ah, I see the box has changed. I'm running 3 XP3s on my 3 75gal tanks and I have to use additional filtration on those tanks. One 75 has only 1 mottled eel in it. Another just has a pair of sleeper gobies. The third only houses one of my FRTs. The XP3s are not enough.
 
Damn that is a good deal a magnum 350 for $94.99!!! So that will be enough for the 125g?
 
You could always get three AC 500's... that'd be around 105 plus shipping at petsmart.com. Those are HOB filters though... I wasnt sure if you were set on a canister filter.
 
A XP3 will be fine on a 125 it is rated for 175 gallons, the XP2 is rated for 75 then the XP1 is rated for 45 gallons so a XP3 on a 125 will be fine
 
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