Question about filtering water.

[Rick]

I was reading a article on line last night and the guy kind of hinted that you can over filter water. What do you guy think, is it possible to over filter a tank? I don't think it is. I like useing a bio -wheel filter with a canster filter. I have always beleaved the the more water you move the better it is for oxygen.

Thanks Rick

 

[JimA]

I don't think you could over filter water.

But you could look at it in a different way like using 3 FX5 filters on a 80 gallon tank would be a waste and would you be over filtering the water by doing that?

 

[VsKitchen]

I didn't think you could over filter water per se, but I can see the point of being wasteful of resources (hardware & electricity) - if all the contaminates/undesirables are removed from the water, they're gone and running it through the system wouldn't change that, it'd just be running it through the filtration system.

 

[AD2CRL]

I don't think you could over filter water.

But you could look at it in a different way like using 3 FX5 filters on a 80 gallon tank would be a waste and would you be over filtering the water by doing that?

Yea but that water would be pristine in that 80g tank. Fish would be in good shape. I'm pretty sure you can never over-filtrate a fish tank.

 

[Gryphon]

Can you post a link to this article? I'd like to read it.

 

[hbluehunter]

I really don't think you can over filter a tank, you might not "NEED" the amount of filtration you have but that's no big deal..lol
I always do 10x filtration on my tanks and a lot of people think i'm nuts for that..lol