One air pump or two, for two sponge filters.

[csa1961]

Hi .. I'm new to this forum and have a question.

I just added another #2 Hydro-Sponge to my 10 gallon. My Bloody Mary shrimp are breeding like crazy, plus I thought it would be good to get another one seeded, for a possible 2nd 10 gallon tank. The current 10 gal has 3 Harlequin Rasbora's, 3 Otto cats, and 1 Betta, plus probably 25 shrimp, mostly babies. The one filter has kept my parameters just fine thus far. I have quite a few real plants, but I would not say it's a "planted" tank.

At any rate, my question: I have a Million Air 200 pump .. will that be enough for both filters. Currently I'm running two pumps, but that may be over kill. Or, on the other hand, is the redundancy a good thing? Vacation, out of town, malfunction, etc?

Thoughts ?

[devonjohnsgard]

Your running two pumps to one filter? Then you'll take one pump to run the one 10 gal and one pump for the second 10 gal? That's fine. Redundant is best, but I think your fine. Battery back-up pumps are nice.

If you have one pump running both filters, I wouldn't recommend that long term. If something happens, two tanks will be down.

[csa1961]

I'm running two pumps. One pump per filter. Two filters in one tank.

[csa1961]

I answered my own question. The MA200 doesn't have enough power for the two sponge filters. I tried it, and the bubbles were cut by almost 50%.

[Carl]

Oct 5, 2017 13:29:25 GMT -5 csa1961 said:

I answered my own question. The MA200 doesn't have enough power for the two sponge filters. I tried it, and the bubbles were cut by almost 50%.

Yes, the MA 200 is pretty good little pump with a little more power than its smaller cousin, but it still is best "one per devise".

As well the redundancy issue would make two pumps along with two filters best

Carl

[csa1961]

Thanks for the advice. Appreciated!