Lincs Planter
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Hi can anyone have either a 600 or 850 and tell me how much extra height is needed for pipework coming out etc.
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I own 850 and when I do weekly maintenance I disconnect hose adapter, lean filter towards me just enough to pull prefilter out. Same when I need to put prefilter back I lean filter towards me again. This works well for me and is fairly easy to do.
I’ve got a 350 and it’s not easy to get the filter out of the cabinet for maintenance. I even have to remove it to get the pre-filter out. I’m now thinking of maybe getting a 250 casing, pre-filter cover and inlet pipe as I too don’t need the volume of filter media of the 350 for my tank.I love my 850 output but recently more a more I think about attaching 850 head to 250 body to shrink it down to 37cm height. My 175L heavily planted tank doesn't need 8L of media volume but still needs that flow. I wonder if 250 prefilter throughput is enough for 1800LPH?
I imagine it's about 20cm head height increase, but it's also 3 baskets less media and 50% less water volume to pull up from the bottom of the bucket. It may even out and make no difference to the flow at all.@MrClockOff Also, as the 250 is much shorter than the 850 you are going to be increasing the head height which will reduce flow somewhat. Whether that will make a noticeable difference, I don't know....
What goes on behind closed doors, stays behind closed doors. 🙂Behind closed doors tho' 😉
Cheers Bradders looks ideal size