Powerhead Aeration Question

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Pinkey

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Hello,

I have a 55g aquarium with 6 goldfish that I am using mostly as a body of water from which to grow about a dozen pothos plants (enough to envelop the level of my house in vines in just a few short years). The plants are more than enough filter to maintain water quality but the fish, and the plants, appreciate good aeration.

I had a Magnum 350 canister filter on there until last night when the magnet somehow wore through the main canister resulting in approximately 7 gallons of water soaking into my living room carpet overnight.

The tank has 6 goldfish, plenty of compressed clay aquaponics pellets (plenty of bacteria to manage any bio filtration) and many, many, rooted pothos plants. I have been putting the dirty discard water from my other tanks into this one as fertilizer for the plants and every week the water quality is perfect before I add more bad water to the tank.

I am certain that simple is the best way to go from here.

What is your favorite aerating power head filter and what would your suggest? Would you bother with a UGF or just the aeration?

Thanks,
Nate
 
Rbishop

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penguin 660 with sponge on intake...
 
kj5kb

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Ditto Bob's suggestion... with the sponge kit it becomes a "660r" or you can buy the kit separately. Penguin 660s have an option to add extra aeration thru a passive air intake on the outflow port also. Goldfish are pretty big poop machines...I'd consider a reverse flow UGF (RUGF) driven by 2 penguin 660r's
 
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pbeemer

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i thought that the 660R was the reverse flow impeller and the plain 660 only pumped up from the bottom ? ? ?
 
Star_Rider

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the 600 r has an adapter so that it fits a over a tube if you are using UGF.
basically it's the 600 power head with a prefilter on the pick up side
 
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The reverse flow kit has a connector to attach the outflow from the powerhead to the top of the 'uplift' tube from the UGF too.

Personally I love the kits, I use the filter as my prefilter of choice as it just connects directly to the intake for all XP1,2,3+4 canister filters.
 
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