5.5g with a Ac 50 or bigger?

[kase]

ok i just went to my LFS and picked up my 5.5 gallon(baby) tank
and a AC50. well to me the AC50 is to small and want to get something bigger.well here is the ???

1. will anything bigger will blow stuff around the tank?
2. i want to do the AC mod, with heater and refigum what size
Ac unit should i get?
3. can't find a 25 watts heat that will fit inside of the Ac50,
what band are you guys using and size AC?
4. i saw a FLAT heater, i guess new product don't remeber the band. it pre set to heat up 5 dg high then room temp. any hear of it and is it agood product?


thanks_kase.

p.s the tank is going to be lps,sps and zoas. i shoulds say mix reef.:

 

[sir_dudeguy]

you'll find that sps are gonna be hard in that tank do to parameters being able to fluctuate more. But they are still doable dont get me wrong. you just have to really keep on top of it.

I dont know offhand, but how many gph does the ac 50 do? i'd say get something that does around 70gph on that.

 

[AIMFish]

I use the 50 watt heater here. It is in my AC50 that is using a AC20 impeller on a 5.5G. I had to change up impellers because the overflo I made couldn't handle the 200gph

 

[sir_dudeguy]

how many gph does the ac 50 do?

 

[kase]

they say it for a 20 gallon -50 gallon tank, but i highly belive that.
thanks for the imfo.

 

[brian is cool]

its 200gph

 

[AIMFish]

They rate them for freshwater tanks. I wish they used the old model numbers, mini, 150, 200, 300, and 500