What Filter For 60x30x24

[simonas]

pickin the tank up Saturday and need to buy filter and heaters

I'll just get couple of heaters and see how I get on, but what filter would you recommend taking into account that I am skint!!! lol

 

[simonas]

pickin the tank up Saturday and need to buy filter and heaters

I'll just get couple of heaters and see how I get on, but what filter would you recommend taking into account that I am skint!!! lol

its going to have some big dirty fishh in there so filtrationwill need to be efficient

 

[shroob]

I would go for a sump, I imagine this would be cheaper than alot of canisters as well.

If you wanted canisters though and are on a budget I would suggest eBay, but really fitrations probably the one area where you can't cut corners when it comes to messy fish.

 

[andywg]

Sumps aren't always too cheap. Once you factor in buying a decent pump to push water up the 1.5 to 2 metre head, the drilling, all the pipework, the sump tank itself and the media, you will start to be running close to a decent cannister such as an Eheim.

Obviously a sump gives some good options. If you are going with a load of big fish you can have a bottome fed weir to save on substrate cleaning (stuff along the bottom is pulled towards the weir) and a wet dry trickle tower offers the bacteria something like 800 to 8,000 times as much oxygen as submerged media.

 

[funkyhoney]

Either go all out and get an Eheim Pro 3, or cheaper option is a Fluval FX5. Or you could get two smaller filters like 2x Eheim 2217 or 2x Fluval 405.

 

[simonas]

cheers for that. been checking on the price of these on ebay now. I've got a period of time to set tank up anyhow so will keep an eye out for these .I've got oe external on another smaller tank which I will probably fit for now and use a spare internal on the smaller tank and then chuck a fluval fx5 on my credit card

 

[CFC]

I used to run my 66x30x24" with two Eheim 2217's and never had any problems with the filtration.

 

[barbo]

teratec ex 1200 is the best value for money 70 quid delivered to your door {charterhouse aquatics online} it performs as good as any of the others for less money, crystal clear water with no algae.

 

[cane76]

id go with a eheim pro3 2180 thermo with built in 500w heater,everything you need running off 1 socket
or on a tight budget 2 x 2217s and 2 x 300w internal heaters

 

[DarkEntity]

teratec ex 1200 is the best value for money 70 quid delivered to your door {charterhouse aquatics online} it performs as good as any of the others for less money, crystal clear water with no algae.

But they dont have the proven reliability of Ehiems, which for a tank of that size i would definitely want.

 

[simonas]

I've been having a good read up so cheers for all that. probably going to get a fluval fx5. seems to be the better value and reviews seem favourable for lot less money than pro 3

 

[barbo]

teratec ex 1200 is the best value for money 70 quid delivered to your door {charterhouse aquatics online} it performs as good as any of the others for less money, crystal clear water with no algae.

But they dont have the proven reliability of Ehiems, which for a tank of that size i would definitely want.

i have been running the tetratec ex 1200 for a while now on a fully stocked 300 ltr coldwater tank, 2x7inch weather loaches, 2x9inch comets, 3x 8inch shubs, 2x5inch golden sucker loaches and it performs absolutely amazing, quiet, powerful and crystal clear water, as i said you will not find a better filter for 70 quid.

 

[cane76]

the fx5 is cheaper but you will pay more for it in the long run
in the reviews i read the pro 3 beat the fx5 in almost all aspects

 

[DarkEntity]

teratec ex 1200 is the best value for money 70 quid delivered to your door {charterhouse aquatics online} it performs as good as any of the others for less money, crystal clear water with no algae.

But they dont have the proven reliability of Ehiems, which for a tank of that size i would definitely want.

i have been running the tetratec ex 1200 for a while now on a fully stocked 300 ltr coldwater tank, 2x7inch weather loaches, 2x9inch comets, 3x 8inch shubs, 2x5inch golden sucker loaches and it performs absolutely amazing, quiet, powerful and crystal clear water, as i said you will not find a better filter for 70 quid.

Thats fine on a tank with Goldfish, but when its going to be a tank with Tropical's which can cost substantially more than a hybridised goldfish, i would want reliability over "cheap and cheerful" The Filter is the next most important item after the tank itself. This is something you do not want to save cash on.

 

[rchambers]

Run 2 Tetratecs, that is going to be more reliable than any ONE other filter, even the holy Eheim