Filter Decisions

[charliebrax921]

I am trying to decide what would be my better option between a couple filters.

I recently acquired a tank and with it came two AquaClear 300 filters. Prior to acquiring this tank I purchased an Aqueon Quiet Flow 55/75 filter, this was before I acquired the pair of filters.

I am not sure what would be the better option here as this is new territory for me, and I am not familiar with the different manufactures. 

I know that the Aqueon is suitable for my tank, and I am sure that the two AquaClears are as well as they exceed what the Aqueon can do as a pair. 

I do have a smaller Aqueon QuietFlow 20 which is beneficial as both of the Aqueon's use the same media (Large Filters), and the Aqueon 55/75 is new, still in packaging.

What do you guys think? Stick with the dual filter setup and take the Aqueon back or ditch the AquaClear filters and stick with the one large one. 

Please support your reasoning - pros/cons etc.

Thanks Guys!

[Andre]

the one thing i've come to learn in this hobby is many of the manufacturers are good with their products. You will have fans of both that will say this brand is better than the other but it all really comes down to what you like about the filter, how it looks, the sound it makes, etc.
Aquaclear & Aqueon are both very good... what one thing to keep in mind about filtration comes down to what kind of fish you are goin to have in your tank and how many and the size they grow to reach maturity.. that's the determining factor of filtration. One thing that many people new to the hobby (i myself when i first started)
is think that if you have a 20g tank with a 20g rated filter then that filter will handle anything you put in that tank, while that thought is correct in some terms in many times it's not.
If you overload your tank and many of us do with small tropical fish, your filter will not be able to handle the waste load your fish produce. This leads to nitrate spikes and fish loss unless you do more water changes.
A way to fix that is either remove some fish or you have a bigger filter to replace your 20 or you add another filter with your 20 to your tank.
So what i'm really getting at is first determine what type of fish you're gonna house in your tank and then second is there is never anything wrong with "over filtration" cause clean water makes for a happy & healthy fish which will lead you to enjoy this hobby. One thing i plan on doing on my future tank is to filter 3x the gallon of the tank... I plan to go with a 220-260g tank and will run 3 FX5's on that tank.
Some people may think i'm crazy but it's just one thing about fish keeping and water quality i've come to learn

[Deleted]

Go big but remember the fish need to sleep at night and simply turning off a filter is not an option.
Therefore you will need to try them out and see.

I'm with agirard, when I ran fresh water I always ran heavy filtration.

[charliebrax921]

Thats the impression I was getting, no such thing as too much filtration.

I am going to try the dual filter setup (this is on a 30g tank btw) for now and see how that goes.

Thanks guys!