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Old 13-09-2012, 02:43 AM   #31
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Hi TS,

How's the EF 40 doing?
Is it very good?

Is it recommendable to use it together with just a 1200l/hr powerhead 2 canister internal filter for a 5ft x 2 x 2 tank?

Thanks.
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Old 13-09-2012, 07:23 AM   #32
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Hi TS,

How's the EF 40 doing?
Is it very good?

Is it recommendable to use it together with just a 1200l/hr powerhead 2 canister internal filter for a 5ft x 2 x 2 tank?

Thanks.
Filtration is all about how much bioload is in your tank.
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Old 13-09-2012, 10:06 AM   #33
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Filtration is all about how much bioload is in your tank.
Totally agreed. Eg, a 422 tank housing a pair of angels may or not need any filter at all or maybe just a sponge filter is enough.
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Old 13-09-2012, 11:08 PM   #34
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Oh~~

Then what will be consider a high bioload tank?

Example,
20 parrot fish,
1 fei feng,
1 G2 red aro at 18",
1 sucker fish.

With these fishes in a 5 x 2 x 2 tank, 1 sponge filter, 1 1200l/hr and 1 dymax ef 40 enough?

What will be a better recommendation?

Many thanks~~
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Old 14-09-2012, 11:09 AM   #35
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Finally setup the filter and i can say it blend well into my black tank ...lol....i use est 1 kg biohm and CR .....i even put one spare BH at its empty compartment....

togather i brought 2 which another i setup for my 2 ft tank...

so far another bro manage to find a higher flowrate pump for it
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Old 14-09-2012, 11:35 AM   #36
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Hi TS,

How's the EF 40 doing?
Is it very good?

Is it recommendable to use it together with just a 1200l/hr powerhead 2 canister internal filter for a 5ft x 2 x 2 tank?

Thanks.
Hi bro, So far been running ever since i started this thread and so far so good.
Easy to clean and it managed to siphon quite alot of dirt.


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Filtration is all about how much bioload is in your tank.
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Oh~~

Then what will be consider a high bioload tank?

Example,
20 parrot fish,
1 fei feng,
1 G2 red aro at 18",
1 sucker fish.

With these fishes in a 5 x 2 x 2 tank, 1 sponge filter, 1 1200l/hr and 1 dymax ef 40 enough?

What will be a better recommendation?

Many thanks~~
Woah, the 20 parrots will be very heavy in bioload. in the above filtration u mentioned, only the dymax ef40 is the bio filtration.. which is not enough at all. you'll probably be better off with a 5ft 3 tier MR AQUA OHF, 1 Dymax EF-40 and airstone to aerate the tank.


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Finally setup the filter and i can say it blend well into my black tank ...lol....i use est 1 kg biohm and CR .....i even put one spare BH at its empty compartment....

togather i brought 2 which another i setup for my 2 ft tank...

so far another bro manage to find a higher flowrate pump for it
indeed it will blend well in black tank. i took out my seachem purigen and filled even the pump compartment at the top full with seachem matrix. Whole filter very heavy now
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Old 14-09-2012, 12:49 PM   #37
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nice write up, thanks for sharing
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Old 14-09-2012, 02:18 PM   #38
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Finally setup the filter and i can say it blend well into my black tank ...lol....i use est 1 kg biohm and CR .....i even put one spare BH at its empty compartment....

togather i brought 2 which another i setup for my 2 ft tank...

so far another bro manage to find a higher flowrate pump for it



Hi Bro,

Can share which higher flowrate pump is compatible?
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Old 14-09-2012, 10:10 PM   #39
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Hi Bro,

Can share which higher flowrate pump is compatible?
very sry...i actually asking if there any bro manage to find a higher flowrate pump for this filter....hehe sry for the misleading sentence
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Old 17-09-2012, 03:18 AM   #40
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Oh~~

Not sure whether there's pump that can replace the 600l/hr pump.

Btw, those who have the ef series, do you think the filtration system can be compare to an ohf?
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