I have read that I should shoot for a 10X per hour turnover rate when purchasing a canister filter.
I will have a 33 gallon tank so I was trying to find an Eheim in the ~330gal/hr range and I ran across the Pro3 2075 (G160). Its dimensions are approx 1 foot by 1foot and 1.5 foot tall. I have never had a canister filter before and that seems HUGE to me.
Surely en external canister filter doesn't need to take up that much room under my stand and be nearly as tall as the tank is to do its job ?!? The canister filter and co2 tank will take up all the space under my stand !
So that got me to wondering about the 10x turn-over rule of thumb I have been seeing. Am I misunderstanding something here? Is that just something to aim for because filter manufacturers will trump up their rating and what they say is a 300 gal/hr filter is actually more like 200Gal/hr ?
And I said all that to say this.....
What happens if you plumb in an external in-line heater and an in-line co2 reactor? Does that decrease the flow even more?
I am not trying to go cheap here and I am not opposed to spending the money for a good filter that is going to last. But it seems that a filter that is actually going to do a 10x turnover of the tank volume is going to be huge in size. And 2 smaller filters would probably take up more room under the stand.
Help me out here.....I must be mis-understanding something.
Anybody else have a planted 30 gal tank and Eheim filter? What do you use to achieve 10x turnover rate?
Bill321
I will have a 33 gallon tank so I was trying to find an Eheim in the ~330gal/hr range and I ran across the Pro3 2075 (G160). Its dimensions are approx 1 foot by 1foot and 1.5 foot tall. I have never had a canister filter before and that seems HUGE to me.
Surely en external canister filter doesn't need to take up that much room under my stand and be nearly as tall as the tank is to do its job ?!? The canister filter and co2 tank will take up all the space under my stand !
So that got me to wondering about the 10x turn-over rule of thumb I have been seeing. Am I misunderstanding something here? Is that just something to aim for because filter manufacturers will trump up their rating and what they say is a 300 gal/hr filter is actually more like 200Gal/hr ?
And I said all that to say this.....
What happens if you plumb in an external in-line heater and an in-line co2 reactor? Does that decrease the flow even more?
I am not trying to go cheap here and I am not opposed to spending the money for a good filter that is going to last. But it seems that a filter that is actually going to do a 10x turnover of the tank volume is going to be huge in size. And 2 smaller filters would probably take up more room under the stand.
Help me out here.....I must be mis-understanding something.
Anybody else have a planted 30 gal tank and Eheim filter? What do you use to achieve 10x turnover rate?
Bill321