Hi I've been researching into setting up a new tank and this forum had helped me a great deal so I thought it was only right I sign up and get involved.
I'm looking at purchasing the All ponds Solution 200l tank to set up as a heavily planted tank, I can see the built in filter isn't going to be up to the challenge so I'm going to take it out and use an external (possibly alongside the pump that feeds the built in filter). Now the thing is I already have a fluval fx5 sitting around not being used so the decision i'm facing is whether to sell it and buy a slightly smaller filter or keep the fx5 and downsize the piping on the outflow to 16mm so I can attach an inline heater and co2 atomiser thus slightly reducing the flow to hopefully end up with the 10x flow rate suggested. This will then be run to a spraybar running the length of the tank.
So do you think a fx5 is just to powerful for a 200l?
Also if I was to downsize on the filter slightly, would adding the internal pump disrupt the pattern of the flow produced by the spraybar?
Thanks Jacob
I'm looking at purchasing the All ponds Solution 200l tank to set up as a heavily planted tank, I can see the built in filter isn't going to be up to the challenge so I'm going to take it out and use an external (possibly alongside the pump that feeds the built in filter). Now the thing is I already have a fluval fx5 sitting around not being used so the decision i'm facing is whether to sell it and buy a slightly smaller filter or keep the fx5 and downsize the piping on the outflow to 16mm so I can attach an inline heater and co2 atomiser thus slightly reducing the flow to hopefully end up with the 10x flow rate suggested. This will then be run to a spraybar running the length of the tank.
So do you think a fx5 is just to powerful for a 200l?
Also if I was to downsize on the filter slightly, would adding the internal pump disrupt the pattern of the flow produced by the spraybar?
Thanks Jacob