Morning,
I'm currently in the process of setting up a new 450 litre tank. Having read very good things, I ordered an Aqual-el Ultramax 2000 external filter and also an Aqual-el flow inline heater. The heater only works on hose of a 16mm internal diameter.
The website I bought the Ultramax 2000 from advertised it as using 16mm internal diameter hosing. Unfortunately that's not the case. The Ultramax 2000 used to use 16mm but the model was updated and now uses 19mm internal diameter hosing.
I can get an adapter which would allow me to connect the 19mm hosing to 16mm hosing, so I could then use all the equipment.
My question is: would that cause any issues for the filter? I can't see it causing pressure to build up in any way as presumably there is some kind of pressure regulation going on. I assume it would be as if there was a slight blockage in a normal filter hose which would reduce the flow down to whatever a 16mm hose could handle? If that's the only consequence then I'm fine with reduced flow. My planned stocking like slow water movement and I'll be using an additional air sponge filter in the tank for increased aeration and to create a ready cycles filter for a quarantine tank anyway.
Would I also need to reduce the hosing size for the filter input? I assume not.
Thanks ?
Matt.
I'm currently in the process of setting up a new 450 litre tank. Having read very good things, I ordered an Aqual-el Ultramax 2000 external filter and also an Aqual-el flow inline heater. The heater only works on hose of a 16mm internal diameter.
The website I bought the Ultramax 2000 from advertised it as using 16mm internal diameter hosing. Unfortunately that's not the case. The Ultramax 2000 used to use 16mm but the model was updated and now uses 19mm internal diameter hosing.
I can get an adapter which would allow me to connect the 19mm hosing to 16mm hosing, so I could then use all the equipment.
My question is: would that cause any issues for the filter? I can't see it causing pressure to build up in any way as presumably there is some kind of pressure regulation going on. I assume it would be as if there was a slight blockage in a normal filter hose which would reduce the flow down to whatever a 16mm hose could handle? If that's the only consequence then I'm fine with reduced flow. My planned stocking like slow water movement and I'll be using an additional air sponge filter in the tank for increased aeration and to create a ready cycles filter for a quarantine tank anyway.
Would I also need to reduce the hosing size for the filter input? I assume not.
Thanks ?
Matt.
