Lonewolfblue
Aquarium Advice Addict
Now here's something that I've really been thinking about. How much filtration do you really need in a planted tank? Since the plants do a lot of the filtration for you, do you really need the amount of filtration as on a non-planted tank? That is my topic for discussion here.
Let's say I was planning on setting up 4 55G tanks and heavily plant all of them, kind of like on my 75G. Would I really need a filter like the XP2 or XP3 on it, or would an XP1 filled with the sponges and filter floss do just fine? As for the bio-filter, the plants already have that covered, so all I would need is mechanical filtration, correct? So would I really need as much turn-over as a non-planted?
Let's say I was planning on setting up 4 55G tanks and heavily plant all of them, kind of like on my 75G. Would I really need a filter like the XP2 or XP3 on it, or would an XP1 filled with the sponges and filter floss do just fine? As for the bio-filter, the plants already have that covered, so all I would need is mechanical filtration, correct? So would I really need as much turn-over as a non-planted?