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Hey all.
I recently purchased a 75g Cichlid setup from someone off of Craigslist and have a few questions about filtration. The tank is currently set up with a SunSun 304b and should be fully cycled as the tank was only without water for a couple of hours and the only thing that changed within the tank was the water itself - the filter and substrate/rocks all stayed the same. I have not disassembled the filter to see what setup the seller was running in terms of media/order but after doing my research I have decided that I would like to set up my filter with ceramic rings in the bottom, a coarse, medium, and fine pad in the first tray and then fill the remaining trays with lava rock for my biomedia. On to the questions..
1.) Is my planned filter setup ideal? Has anyone had a good experience running something similar?
2.) I know I need to add more filtration in order to deal with the messiness of a properly stocked Cichlid tank - will it be adequate/overkill/insufficient filtration if I add a 2nd SunSun 304b filter? Should I set up the second filter with the same setup as I put in the first one?
I know that I will lose some progress with my tank cycling by getting rid of the established biomedia in the original filter but I don't have fish in the tank yet so I would rather cover all of my bases and have a minor setback now than down the road when I have a stocked tank. Thanks in advance!
I recently purchased a 75g Cichlid setup from someone off of Craigslist and have a few questions about filtration. The tank is currently set up with a SunSun 304b and should be fully cycled as the tank was only without water for a couple of hours and the only thing that changed within the tank was the water itself - the filter and substrate/rocks all stayed the same. I have not disassembled the filter to see what setup the seller was running in terms of media/order but after doing my research I have decided that I would like to set up my filter with ceramic rings in the bottom, a coarse, medium, and fine pad in the first tray and then fill the remaining trays with lava rock for my biomedia. On to the questions..
1.) Is my planned filter setup ideal? Has anyone had a good experience running something similar?
2.) I know I need to add more filtration in order to deal with the messiness of a properly stocked Cichlid tank - will it be adequate/overkill/insufficient filtration if I add a 2nd SunSun 304b filter? Should I set up the second filter with the same setup as I put in the first one?
I know that I will lose some progress with my tank cycling by getting rid of the established biomedia in the original filter but I don't have fish in the tank yet so I would rather cover all of my bases and have a minor setback now than down the road when I have a stocked tank. Thanks in advance!