What filter on a 75 planted?

[got_nailed]

Thinking more about the filter I will be using on my 75 gallon tank I will be setting up this week. Since it is planted I won’t need a lot of biological filtering. I would need a lot of mechanical filtering. Chemical filtering would not be used much at if all I hope.

If I’m thinking the right way I mostly need a light current, and to remove the junk out of the water. Am I thinking right? I still want to go with the wet sump like on some of my larger tanks. But before I get it setup and running, as long as I have a large amount of mechanical filter and some water current I should be fin with a light fish load.

I’m starting to also think about using 1 Magnum 350, pumping co2 and using an in line heater on it. Would the 350 GPH be high enfo for this tank?

What filter would you use for a planted 75 gallon tank?

 

[marks69]

i have a fluval 304 on my 55, and it work well with the plants.i'd try the 404 for your 75, it's really quiet, and you can move the intake and outake wherever you want.
gl
mark

 

[Richer]

My 70 gallon tank currently has an Eheim 2026, a 2234 and a quick filter attached to a Aquaclear 402 powerhead.

Yes, you are thinking right, in heavily planted tanks, mechanical filtration takes priority, since the biological aspect of filtering is being taken care of by your plants. All of my canisters are packed with mechanical filtration media, and all the intakes are covered with prefilters. If your fish can handle it, filter a bit on the heavy side... it'll help clear your tank of debri later on if and when you need to distrub the substrate. I pulled up a few plants a few days ago, and that caused quite a debri cloud in my tank... it took less than 10 minutes before my water cleared up again.

HTH
-Richer

 

[got_nailed]

I’m wanting to use an over flow and run it in to a 20 high (24x 12x 16). The 20 high would be split in ½ and then ½ again. This would give me 4 compartments to work with. The incoming water would flow into the first compartment 6x12 and flow into the second compartment of 6x12 which would be filter floss. I would use the threed compartment with gravel, foam, more filter floss or what ever. The last compartment would be the pump, heaters, Co2 reactor, and what ever else I would need. I’m thinking of going this way for my filtering with a 300 GPH overflow and a 275 GPH pump at 4 feet. It should give me more than the needed turn over, and plenty of places to hid all of the hardware for my tank. It would be a wet sump, not a wet/dry sump.

I don’t like canister filters and I don’t want to use one but I’m starting to think I might be using one. After I set up my tank and let it settle I will be deciding what I will be using.