I have 55 gallon tank, with all plants, driftwood etc my total water volume could be 45-48 gallon.
I have 2 HOB power filters (each are for 70 gallon tanks, flow rate is between 300 to 400). 1 Fluval 305 canister filter (flow rate:260 gph). Do you think my filter is enough? And just added 15 watt UV.
Question to UV users??
I went through the link that Duchy provided for setting up UV
http://www.americanaquariumproducts....ilization.html after reading the article I came up with my setting as follows for Killing Machine...targeted for parasites, bacteria, etc in water column.
If I adjust control flow rate on fluval 305 to half (130 gph) then i get following for haf filled tank (I am planning to empty 50% tank and run this settings for couple days):
Watts per 10 gph:
For parasite and virus suggested flow rate is less than 10 gph per watt
I will get 10 gph per 1.15 watt (I have 15 watts UV and will be running with flow rate of 130 gph)
suggested is 10 gph per 1 watt (my setting will provide .15 more watt than suggested)
If I have 50% full tank (25 gallon) then my turn over will be 5.2 times per hour
Suggested turnover is 4 times per hour
Is my calculation correct? Any thing I should watch doing the above settings.
Regards
NN
I have 2 HOB power filters (each are for 70 gallon tanks, flow rate is between 300 to 400). 1 Fluval 305 canister filter (flow rate:260 gph). Do you think my filter is enough? And just added 15 watt UV.
Question to UV users??
I went through the link that Duchy provided for setting up UV
http://www.americanaquariumproducts....ilization.html after reading the article I came up with my setting as follows for Killing Machine...targeted for parasites, bacteria, etc in water column.
If I adjust control flow rate on fluval 305 to half (130 gph) then i get following for haf filled tank (I am planning to empty 50% tank and run this settings for couple days):
Watts per 10 gph:
For parasite and virus suggested flow rate is less than 10 gph per watt
I will get 10 gph per 1.15 watt (I have 15 watts UV and will be running with flow rate of 130 gph)
suggested is 10 gph per 1 watt (my setting will provide .15 more watt than suggested)
If I have 50% full tank (25 gallon) then my turn over will be 5.2 times per hour
Suggested turnover is 4 times per hour
Is my calculation correct? Any thing I should watch doing the above settings.
Regards
NN