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- From: rg@kunikpok.UUCP (R.G. Keen)
- Newsgroups: rec.aquaria
- Subject: Filters for 55 G - Suggestions?
- Message-ID: <154TwB1w165w@kunikpok.UUCP>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 04:10:59 GMT
- Organization: Kunikpok Kennels and Komputers (Pet Project)
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- I'm going to acquire and set up a 55 in the next couple of months or so,
- now that I have my 29 running on a fairly even keel. I have consulted -
- well, pestered - everyone I know and read everything I could get my hands
- on, and I think that a reasonable setup is with UG driven by two
- powerheads, airstone aeration, and a cannister, possibly an Eheim or
- Fluval, running in tandem. The idea is that with two filter systems
- running, I have some additional capacity and a different mechanism if
- something should go nonlinear with one of them. Two questions -
- (a) does this make sense?
- (b) any suggestions on alternates or hints and tips in this kind of
- setup?
-
- There is a third question. I saw a book entitled "Tank Busters" in my
- local book emporium, the focus being LARGE tanks to keep specimens of
- LARGE or unusual/gruesome species. The book made much of a filter they
- called a "rapid sand filter" which consisted of a second tank, comparable
- to the main tank's size or slightly smaller, that had a series of
- compartments driven by succeeding overflows; first wool media, then
- coarse sand, and successively finer sand in each compartment. As usual,
- grandiose claims for effectiveness. Is this thing - ahem - all wet?
-
- R.G.
-