Too much filtration?

[Thaiboxer]

This may be a dumb question, but is there such a thing as too much filtration?

I'm currently running a 55 gallon with a very heavy load of fish because I'm moving them all to a 125 gallon next week.

I've been running a Magnum 350 on the tank for about 6 months, ever since my Fluval 303 blew up. Yesterday, I put my new Emperor 400 on the back of the 55 gallon to get some bacteria growing before moving it to the new tank - both filters and all the gravel and water from the 55 will be transferred to the 125.

Those two filters on the 55 is a lot of filtration/current. Are there any possible negatives to this?

The tank is all south american cichlids, they should be able to handle the current pretty well.

TIA for any advice!

 

[ferret]

I run a Penguin 330, supposively rated for up to 70 gallons, on a 20 gallon goldfish tank. Its not quite an exact comparious, but I've never noticed any issues, and its needed to keep up with those guys bioload.

 

[Sati]

If you're blowing the fish across the tank and knocking them out that's probably a bad thing My beta hates current so as long as he has quiet places to chill he's fine.

 

[grimlock3000]

Yep, it all depends on the fish. If you fish look OK and not stressed, just got with it...

 

[trenac]

With the extra fish load your better off having more than less filtration.

 

[William]

I run a hob thats rated for 40gal tanks on the back of my 10gal male betta tank.

I also run a 50gal rated filter on my 29gal.

 

[foxtrot1027]

I run 3 hob filters on my 29 gal goldie tank. Total filtration supposed to be like 70 gallons. By having the 3 sperate filters the output stream is split up and i change one filter every 2 weeks so the other 2 have good bacteria colonies til the changed one catches up.