View Full Version : Do i really need Wet Dry filter?
CalPolyPomona
07-22-2004, 12:13 PM
My tank is 60 Gal. I have 6 bloody parrots in there for almost a year now. I have a magnium canistor filter. Some one gave me a wet/dry filter and i decide to start using it. Is the wet/dry is too much for my tank? Is it gooing to hurt my fishes in any way? I'm new to this forum and been reading about Cichlids. What Cichlids
can i put in that can get along w/ my bloody parrot?
Thanks.
Bigguppy
07-22-2004, 2:12 PM
More filtration very rarely hurts anything.
Aquatick
07-23-2004, 4:52 AM
A wet dry is a waste of time in most freshwater tanks. I recommend you skip it and go wiith something more practical. I'm partial to canister filters myself.
You do not "need" to have any particular format of filter - you need to have adequate and accessible filtration which is no big chore for you to maintain. Wet/drys are excellent filters - for FW/BW/SW, there is no significant difference in their ability or function in any type, but it is foolish for anyone to say that only a paricular format will meet your needs, or equally that any format will not meet your needs. All of my largest tanks use W/Ds, but numerically most of my filters are canisters. I personally do not like HOBs, but that does not mean that they do not a good job for many good fishkeepers, it is just my personal preference and choice. Filter selection is just that, a personal choice of formats.
daveedka
07-23-2004, 9:02 PM
RTR summed that up quite well. You don't need it, but If I had one you could bet I'd be running it unless I was injecting Co2 (wet dry's gas of Co2 very well), IMO overfiltration is difficult to achieve, and if you already own the set-up, you can't waste much by using it. more filters = less work for fishkeeper, and better water quality. I'd rather rinse media than do twice as many water changes any day. I'm not suggesting that you skip water changes, only that you could have a much nicer tank with very little extra work.
dave
Actually, it is rarely the W/D itself which blows off CO2 (unless it is DIY and open-topped, which no commercial units are SFAIK), it is the over-the-side "skimmer" that serves as constant-level syphon feeding the W/D. I did have some commercial skimmers which were both noise-makers and CO2 blasters - I changed designs and markedly reduced the problems. for once my neurosis about noise paid off...:cool: