Habitat - Indoor :: Need Your Opinions Please

[turtle_man]

I have a 55 gal tank and im considering buying a xp3 or xp4, to replace my emperor 400. Do you think xp4 would be excessive in my tank? Thank You for your comments.

[missibsu]

Knowing that you are going to have to upgrade, I would say the xp4. I use an xp3 on my 75 gallon and it works wonderfully, but if I had had the option when I purchased mine, I would've done the larger one.

[turtle_man]

Thanks For the Comments, I do eventually plan on going to a 120 gal, just not sure when.

[steve]

How big are your turtles? It's hard to say how the XP4s are preforming since they are fairly new. I would be tempted to stick with the XP3 and use 2 filters when you upgrade.

[missibsu]

Good point Steve...I just assumed (bad word I know) that the xp4 was going to work the same way that the xp3 does. With the whole line of them xp-xp4, I would think that it would be an improvement over the xp3.

Another thing that you reminded me of. With a large tank, it would be nice to have a filter at each end. If you have two xp3s or even an xp3 and an xp2, that could be very beneficial.

[CountryGirl68]

The XP4 is made for fish tanks up to 265g. Considering that the filter for a turtle tank needs to be about 3x more powerful than the tank size, even with the XP4, a 120g tank would probably need two filters.

Getting two of the XP3 (if you get them on sale) or one XP3 and one XP2 would probably be a good setup for the 120 tank.

[steve]

I'm using an XP3 and a Aquaclear 110 for my 125 gallon tank (with about 70 gallons of water) and it seems to be doing a good job.

[marisa]

I'm personally hoping that someone takes the leap and gets an XP4. If it's like the XP3 only with more capacity, it should be pretty darn good.