Setting Up And Stocking A Juwel Rio 125

[l337dave]

hello,

nice forum here - have been lurking for a few weeks.

I've bought a juwel rio 125 from ebay, it came with the corner filter thing but no heater or media. ie just the black box and the power head.

I've also bought a second hand ehiem 2215. (but it hasn't arrived yet) which i've read should be more that good enough for the tank.

I don't really like the way that a big black box looks in the corner of the tank, so I was considering removing it and just using the external one - this way I could buy an inline heater and have less 'stuff' in the tank.

but then I thought 'hmmm surely 2 filters are better than 1..'

soooo.. my question is: is it worth buying the media for the internal filter and using it as well as the external on e? or will it be overkill on a tank my size..?

I understand that I can't overfilter a tank but will the benifit from it be enough to warrant leaving it in there.

eg if the external is doing 90% of the work I'd prolly get rid.

I haven't decided what fish to put in there as I guess that will make a differance.

thanks!


dave.

 

[black angel]

I think that the external will filter about 6 times your tank capacity in an hour which is enough for most tropicals. The internal will roughly be around 4 times the turnover so together will be 10 times filtration. Ideally its about media and having lots of it which both of them should have.
If it was my tank I would keep them both running.

 

[basia]

I have a vision 260 and run an external fluval and the jewel filter on it. The external is at the other end of the tank.
If you put a black background on the tank you hardly notice the filter.

 

[dwarfgourami]

I keep two filters on my 2 smaller Juwel tanks (the 60 and 70): the original and an external. I like the feeling that there is some backup if one filter blows when I'm away.

 

[l337dave]

I keep two filters on my 2 smaller Juwel tanks (the 60 and 70): the original and an external. I like the feeling that there is some backup if one filter blows when I'm away.

I've decided to go this way too, I'm hoping that the plants will grow to cover it...



dave.