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I have a medium sized tank which is very underloaded with just three
fish. It's been running like this for about a month now and everything seems to have settled down and got comfortable. I started out with a really cheap internal filter that blew lots of bubbles but didn't seem to do a whole lot of filtering. When I pulled it to bits to see how it worked I just couldn't see how it was expected to do anything but the most primitive filtering. I guess you get what you pay for, and it was cheap. Recently I installed a Hagen Stingray internal filter. I keep it running all the time and the filtering and circulation it provides is wonderful. My question is this - does increasing the filtering increase the practical capacity of the tank? In others words can I carry more fish comfortably? Obviously there would be a practical limit to all this, but within reasonable limits would this be a correct assumption? The Hagen has plastic foam, for biological filtering I presume when the bacteria get established, and two activated carbon cartridges. Thanks for any comments - I really am a little new to all this. -- Peter in New Zealand. Pull the plug out to reply. |
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