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Posted by Frank on April 24, 2006, 4:32 am
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MEAlston wrote:
> It's been 20 days since I first setup my 55 gal tank with the betta pair.
> It's starting to clear now..yippeee!!
What kind of filter/s do you have on the tank now?
> I'm considering the purchase of two Penguin 350-B Power Filters. Would this
> be overkill regarding the bio-wheels and their role in growing
> bacteria?....
I think two filters on a tank is a lot better than one. Oversizing them
is also better than undersizing. I hate it when they size a filter by
the amount of gallons the tank holds. A filter, and it's media should
be sized for the species of fish and their bio-load. I like the
bio-wheel type filters because they remove all three forms of
pollution; dissolved compounds - ammonia/nitrite, inorganic pollutants
- DOCs (dissolved organic compounds), and solid particulate waste. The
bio-wheels hold the polluted water within the filter media long enough
for the bacteria to break down the DOCs, where as other filters just
pump the DOCs through the filter media and back into the tank to
accumulate. A build-up of DOCs create conditions that encourage
disease, parasites, and opportunistic bacteria. The effectiveness of
bio-filtering is improved the longer the polluted water is held in the
filters media - bio-wheels do that and two would be twice as good as
one............ Frank
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> It's starting to clear now..yippeee!!