NEW TO SITE FLUVAL FX5 help

Hello Fish tank people,

My name is Tom and I recently purchased a Fish tank to put in my home office. the tank is 210 gallons, I have already put Crushed coral gravel and filled it with water. For filtration I have bought a FLUVAL FX5 filter and I have hooked everything up using the directions. Here is my big question.

The Fluval cleared up some of the cloudiness in the tank from the crushed coral gravel. but overnight the tank is still about 3% cloudy and i placed my hand near the output of the Fluval to feel the output and the pressure did not feel that strong (maybe the same as a faucet on almost full blast) based on the Fluvals boast of 600 or something gallons an hour I expected a much stronger kick back. Is this working correcty?????????

Thank you,

Tom Baron
Salisbury NY

Hey!

I plan on keeping MALAWI cichlids and filling the tank with some cool holey rock. no one really answered my question though, is the amount of power or lack of coming from that FX5 normal?? so you think i need 2 of them????

Thanks for the info ZIGMAN I will check.

I have a polishing pad then carbon on top tray. then polishing pad and Biomax on the second tray. and Biomax on the bottom tray. does my description of the FX5 flow sound right or do you think its clogged from all those fine particles from the new gravel??? Do you think i need another filter as well??
thanks,

tom

Ok so blue pads where my curren polishing pads are and a polishing pad UNDER the last tray of Biomax? also by the way how do i clean this thing and how fast should i clean it after it hopefully clears up all those cloudy substrate particles?

thank you@!