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I picked up a 90-gal bowfront that's drilled with an overflow box in one corner. I'm not going to be using a sump and I'd strongly prefer not to have canister filter hoses running up the outside of the aquarium (as I intend this to be as much of a show tank as I can make it), so my thought is to remove the overflow box and plumb the canister filter hoses from and to the aquarium via the drilled holes.
- Might anyone here have experience in this? If so, I'd really appreciate any advice you can offer on the subject, up to and including specific plumbing supplies to use. Bonus points for recommending what I can use to make a sharp turn inside the aquarium just as close to a given hole (i.e. hugging the floor of the aquarium as much) as possible!
I'm also considering using not one but two canister filters, hooked up in tandem. In other words and because I don't know how to post a diagram here, having just a single pipe carry water from the aquarium through one hole, having that pipe split into two pipes/hoses that feed the two canister filters, and having the two outflow hoses/pipes from the two canister filters merge into a single pipe to carry water back into the aquarium through the other hole. Make sense? I hope so!
- Anyone experienced with anything like that? Again, any advice would be appreciated!
- Or in your experience, is that just way overkill filtration that's going to result in too much water flow in the aquarium? (It's going to be a Tanganyikan community tank, and I don't really want the fish blown around by currents.) One of the filters is a Rena XP2 (75-gal capacity) and the other is a Rena XP3 (175-gal capacity). I know I could supposedly just use the XP3 given its stated capacity, but I've as yet no personal experience with either filter (I bought them new quite some time ago, set them aside and then per force suffered an unexpected and extended hiatus from the fishkeeping hobby) and in general I prefer over-filtering - as long as it doesn't create any problems!
Thanks in advance, and a lot!
Gerry
- Might anyone here have experience in this? If so, I'd really appreciate any advice you can offer on the subject, up to and including specific plumbing supplies to use. Bonus points for recommending what I can use to make a sharp turn inside the aquarium just as close to a given hole (i.e. hugging the floor of the aquarium as much) as possible!
I'm also considering using not one but two canister filters, hooked up in tandem. In other words and because I don't know how to post a diagram here, having just a single pipe carry water from the aquarium through one hole, having that pipe split into two pipes/hoses that feed the two canister filters, and having the two outflow hoses/pipes from the two canister filters merge into a single pipe to carry water back into the aquarium through the other hole. Make sense? I hope so!
- Anyone experienced with anything like that? Again, any advice would be appreciated!
- Or in your experience, is that just way overkill filtration that's going to result in too much water flow in the aquarium? (It's going to be a Tanganyikan community tank, and I don't really want the fish blown around by currents.) One of the filters is a Rena XP2 (75-gal capacity) and the other is a Rena XP3 (175-gal capacity). I know I could supposedly just use the XP3 given its stated capacity, but I've as yet no personal experience with either filter (I bought them new quite some time ago, set them aside and then per force suffered an unexpected and extended hiatus from the fishkeeping hobby) and in general I prefer over-filtering - as long as it doesn't create any problems!
Thanks in advance, and a lot!
Gerry