Plants and filtration????

Watcher74

Watcher74

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I've been looking at Aquatic Gardners contest entries and have noticed that a lot of the tanks are only running one filter.

Usually an Eheim that is only powerful enough to turn over the tank water around 3x - 5x per hour.

If you have a heavily planted tank is filtration turnover not needed as much as in a FO tank? I usually plan on having the water filtered around 9x.

But tank after tank, even contest winners, are not using near that much filtration.
 
well usually their bio load is VERY low. Like a 55g with 10 siscortails. So its not nearly as much an issue....also plants like Nitrogen...whether its amonia, nitrites or nitrates...so they plants will effectively use whatever the bacteria in the filter dont. Also you dont want a lot of aggitation in a heavily planted tank.
 
I do high fish loads and about 3-5x. Canisters work good for smaller tanks.
I use overflow sumps for larger tanks.

Regards,
Tom Barr
 
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