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Posted by Mister Gardener on April 22, 2006, 1:14 pm
Please log in for more thread options On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 18:22:38 +0200, "sew crazy"
>if you gan afford 2 get them ( i would)
>they should never dei at the same thime thus you will have a backup for over
>a long weekend or when you are away for a few days....
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>on the other hand it is twice as much work to clean them though one will
>never clean them at the sam time as to assist with cycling ....and not to
>interrupt the cycle thing
>two uses more electricity so in the long run will cost more....
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>two should lead to better circulation aswell but will take up more space
>below the tank i.e. filling up the crucial space for all the other junk ...
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>> I'm currently running two new emperor 400s that I'm not too happy with -
>> 105 G african mbuna tank - considering a switch to a canister filter(s) -
>> since the emperors each do 400 GPH, would I need two canisters that each
>> do 400 GPH, or would a single canister be enough - guess I'm wondering too
>> if one big canister or two smaller canisters would be a better approach.
>> Thanks!
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I would go for two rather than one. With each sized so that one could
do a pretty good job alone if the other got knocked out. Redundancy is
a favorite word of NetMax's when discussing filters. It makes sense.
Click on Filters under Basics at this site for some good reading.
http://www.netmax.tk/
-- Mister Gardener
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> 105 G african mbuna tank - considering a switch to a canister filter(s) -
> since the emperors each do 400 GPH, would I need two canisters that each
> do 400 GPH, or would a single canister be enough - guess I'm wondering too
> if one big canister or two smaller canisters would be a better approach.
> Thanks!
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