How long can you have it running? i have a 120 gallon and getting a BioBubble aquarium, gonna get 2 and have two circulate the water between both aqu
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The heat of the motor did not appear to be an issue as it is cooled down by the water passing through in my experience despite the plastic head. If you will continuously run it, the wear in the motor is more of an issue. The motor is relatively well built, so I think it should last, it is pretty cheap for what it does anyway. The motor I received runs up to 9V though, not 12V. It gets stuck at 12V, fyi...
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I run 2 48" end to end on my 300 gallon fresh water tank---lighting is great!
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It all depends what you have in the tank! If it's a reef, you would want the tank cycled minimum 10x per hour. If you have freshwater with no live plants, then typically 4-5x is plenty.
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Not going to sound very smart, but its quite a lot. I've had mine for a 10 gal aqu for 1 year, and I've only used half of it thus far.
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If you are doing a reef tank, I would go with 2 units, if its just saltwater fish with artificial plants and stuff, you could probably get away with 1 unit. I am looking to maybe upgrade to something like that, I have looked at a 47 Gallon bowfront, and would add another unit, and maybe play around with lowering the light level, or cutting back the white LED levels some. Under full blue LED's only, everything in my tank takes on completely different colors, and glows a bright blue, pretty cool at night sometimes.
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I have a 100 gal. tank and it worked great,It took a couple of days but my tank never had issues again and it kept working for over a year.
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I have a 225 gallon tank and I run two 150 watt one on each side and my temp. Stay. At 76
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I have mine on a 55 gallon tank with another filter under the tank, and it works great, will clean it out every two to three months by just washing them out, but the bio rings I will most likely leave alone as this is where your biological organisms will do most of the breakdown.
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Your going to run thru 3 gals . of air in a hurry. Get a larger tank or take a lot of breaks
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According to testing it runs about 450 gph. This rating is what you commonly see when you look at a gph rate, but most companies test the product empty. Once you fill it with media and hook up the hoses and stuff you end up with about 200 gph. I set up my tanks with more filtration then a lot of people, so for me, this filter is ideal for a 55 gallon tank, or 75 gallon tank with medium bio-load. I ran two of these and two Emperor 400 filters on my 150 gallon tank with high bio-load and the water was clear. I mention this because the box states it can handle up to a 265 gallon aquarium, which it probably could if the tank was heavily plants and lightly stocked and the filter was cleaned every 2 weeks, which are things that usually don't happen.
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I have this in a 5 gal and it has worked wonderfully for my Betta. I added a good filter and cycled it first.Curious as to what you would put in a 1 gal, the smaller the tank the harder it it to maintain and it requires almost daily water changes when this small
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One full tank seems to run approximately 32 hours set on 'medium' output. I don't use the 'low' output but it definitely would run longer hours on this latter setting. Hope this helped
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This would help move the water. Great pumps i really recommend the cobalt's over most others. They are silent and last forever. But if you have red cyano algae yea just this powerhead won't fix the issue. You need to really check your parameters and if those are in a good place i would highly recommend http://www.amazon.com/Boyd-Enterprises-CC02-Chemi-Clean-2/dp/B00025YRJS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1413336934&sr=8-1&keywords=chemiclean Stuff works wonders. Just make sure to read and do what the instructions say. I had a full red tank once. The next day it was gone with this stuff. And corals opened up also. If you have a bad bacteria outbreak like red cyano algae i would recommend both.
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I started with 6 weeks long time period in my 60 gal tank, per bottle.Well, in 8 months time, my aquatic jungle has been harvested 3 times. My tank is 24 inches tall, and I had lillies growing ouy of the top. More plants....more CO2 I got another for a smaller tank and uses 6 times more due to a miniscule leak. :(. And they are expensive. I am a ruralite and am dragging my feet to get into town for a better setup. It may be a good "Starter" setup. BTW, the "leaker" valve on a 10 gallon moss shrimp tank, goes thru 6 times faster than my "jungle" 60 gal.....IMHO, the "20" is a piece of junk as well....Fluval needs to start over and do it right....... I started with 6 weeks long time period in my 60 gal tank, per bottle.Well, in 8 months time, my aquatic jungle has been harvested 3 times. My tank is 24 inches tall, and I had lillies growing ouy of the top. More plants....more CO2 I got another for a smaller tank and uses 6 times more due to a miniscule leak. :(. And they are expensive. I am a ruralite and am dragging my feet to get into town for a better setup. It may be a good "Starter" setup. BTW, the "leaker" valve on a 10 gallon moss shrimp tank, goes thru 6 times faster than my "jungle" 60 gal.....IMHO,... » Read More I started with 6 weeks long time period in my 60 gal tank, per bottle.Well, in 8 months time, my aquatic jungle has been harvested 3 times. My tank is 24 inches tall, and I had lillies growing ouy of the top. More plants....more CO2 I got another for a smaller tank and uses 6 times more due to a miniscule leak. :(. And they are expensive. I am a ruralite and am dragging my feet to get into town for a better setup. It may be a good "Starter" setup. BTW, the "leaker" valve on a 10 gallon moss shrimp tank, goes thru 6 times faster than my "jungle" 60 gal.....IMHO, the "20" is a piece of junk as well....Fluval needs to start over and do it right....... « Show Less
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I run two of them on my 120. You will also need two as they are both 48" tanks.
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have mine running with a timer 20hr on, 4 off.lights too. the water is about the same as my room temp, it is 80 degrees in my room and the temp probe in the water says 81 degrees been running 12 hours now. they recommened 18 on 6 off. going to change my timer to that. had to make a new squirter pvc pipe 1 inch longer so it sprayed on the rockwool not below it? clones are very healthy. going to put AC in the room soon summer coming.
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Depends on how you have the tank planted as well as the bioload. You could go with no bio filtering with enough plants. Sorry I can't give a more definite answer.