Guys i have bought another filter of 1500 liters per hour now total filtration is 2700 liters per hour for 743 liters of water...both new filters are external filters.... do you people think it is enough and also kindly tell me how many cycles per hour my filters are doing.
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your filtering your water 3.6+ times an hour witch aint bad.i prefer the 10to1gph\lph for aquariums but ponds maybe less cause of more area for bacteria to settle on i would just add powerhead w\sponge to move h2o over area it will help bateria thrive and then so will everything else. i have a 120gal cattle tank filtered by 1 magnum330 does 300gph and 1 powerhead w\sponge that pushes bout 400gph and just enough gravel to cover bottom and i have had on problem raising 4 blue 2 redcap 2red\wh 2 ornge\black orandas and 2 ryuken got then 1" 1month ago now there all 3' in size i think i might need a bigger tank soon!!

I think you need another filter. If this is a goldfish tank, you will need one cause of the waste of the fish. Personaly I like to keep my in the 8-10GPH range:)

Following is the reply from Racheal few days ago...then i had 2 power filters of 500 liters p/h now i have increasd the filtration to 2700 liters per hour i am all confused...let me explain again now i have 2 external/canaster filters 1200+1500 how many cycles p/h my tank is doing?

Rachel Posted: Aug 29 2003, 04:46 AM


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At the moment with all the filters your tank is turned over about 11 times an hour which is really good.
I would do water changes probably once a week still of about 20%, but you could probably get away with 40% every 2 weeks depending on what is in it.

This post has been edited by Rachel on Aug 29 2003, 04:46 AM

man you peoples are so lucky that you have so bigg filters and cool tanks
thats a very power ful filter you have fefe

Thanks golden lion head any one can reply me about how acuratly my tank is cycling with 2700 p/h for 743 liters of water.

Your saying in my terms is that 2700Liters=713Gals (filtering)
your Tank 743Liter=196Gal

So you take the filter gals and divied it by the tank......so 713gals/196 gals this would give you.3.64 GPH.

So in your terms.
2700/743= 13.46Liters an Hour.

Thank you very much for your kind help koko now i should add 1 more external filter? of 1500 liters?

what no thanks to the rest of us who tried but u didnt understand?

just kiddin glad u got it