Originally Posted by
Red16
If it were my tank, i'd use all of the old tank water (110litres) in the new tank along with 110litres of fresh water, and run both filters as its always a good thing to overfilter your water.
Then instead of weekly/fortnightly water changes like you would usually do, i'd add more water until the tank is eventually full. Then you could alternate filter cleans, do one every 2 weeks, soeach filter is being cleaned every 4 weeks, the tank should be very stable if its ran like that imo.
Yeh a few people have said to run both filters, and I know that overfiltering is a good thing.
I clean my filter about every 2-3 months at present, never had any issues since starting the tank. I do weekly 20%'ers tho.
I'm going to be running 2x150W heaters one each side the tank, but I didnt particularly want to run 2 filters. Thats the reason I bought the ex1200 (good for 500L tanks), so surely this is overfiltering by quite a bit on its own. Was going to keep the EX700 purely for a backup should the 1200 fail..
Thanks for the advice!!
