... sick fish, you should set up a hospital tank. By way of planning ahead, some of us like to keep a sponge filter operating in an established aquarium. You can then put the sponge filter in a small hos...
then i think you should go for a biological filter,biological filter is one that can form biological colony and prevent the growth of NH3 or nitrite...you should do 40 % water change in every 7 days.....
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That's a coolB) aquarium! Love the sand/stone theme. What are the bags covering the filter intakes?
Thanks Fishycrackersz, Those are just those normal filter bags for those make...
... pretty much right. if you use enouph live rock you, and establish it well you sometimes dont even need a filter ( I dont recomend trying this for beginers). I have a 40 gallon that I havent had a fil...
...He needs to do both, so water quality is important. You may want to consider adding a small, under gravel filter to help clean and oxygenate the water. A sponge filter will also work and will not requ...
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What does the filter look like? My first guess is a flat piece of plastic with lots of small holes, one larger hole, and a flange about a half inch thick. That's a crude ...
...what kind of filtration would be a good idea to use on the tank? as of now i have one fluval 305 canister filter and one hang on filter for a 60 gallon tank. i also have 2 fluval 4 plus internal filt...
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It's what you want out of it that takes you in a different direction...
If you want a sponge filter or an undergravel filter, then you'd have to decide if the price was right or not ...
Lol I just had a thought. but a few guppies might do well in it too, if you got a simple ground filter. which is basicly something you put under the gravel with a tube that comes up. then you put the ...
... T.C. tetracycline. I have done two doses and nothing seems to be changing. I don't have the cartage filter in but filter is running. Can anyone suggest what I can do.
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... that comes to life when it gets into an aquarium. Before using any of the bacterial products, be sure to filter out all the meds by using an activated charcoal filter element....
hmm Also what do you plan on putting in your aquarium? You got a bare minimum filter for the tank size you have. That filter would be good for a 120 litre or 140 litre tank. Also would depend on what ...
Put a clean piece of nylon hose over the filter intake to avoid having the fry sucked up. Lots of floating plants will give them plenty of hiding places, so a breeding net is not necessary. You probab...
...good size would be 30 gallons in the future. Goldfish tend to be rather messy so I recommend you get the filter as soon as possible. Filter is a must with goldfish in my opinion. When you do get th...
every couple of days remove the filter media and rinse it off so all the built up yucky stuff comes off .. I have had the same trouble in a 65 gallon tank that only has 4 angels in it. When i feed the...
...e of my bettas in an eclipse corner 5 system. It is actually pretty good for bettas because although the filter is a power filter, it's flow rate is pretty slow. You also have the benefit of ha...
... with rocks also theres ONE neon tetra in there with them i've seen the betta making bubbles but the filter sucks them in should i turn the filter off and put a halfa cup in?...
...nk is out of the question for now since my money is tight I was told that as long as i keep the tank well filtered I shouldn't have aproblem but i don't know what kind of filter to used, I a...
... add to the water to decrease the ammonia? I have a barley products. I didn't clean the biological filter. Just the regular filter. We also have algae along the surfaces but the water is clea...
...the bottom. i also found some waterweed in the spring and planted it in there too. Now all i needed was a filter. i finally found an old 4 in. filter. (i know its way too small, but its all i had.) Fo...
... with them and that they are really messy most people recomend 1 for every 30 gallons at 1.015 S.G. and a filter for a tank 2 times that size, so that's a 70 gall filter, and they are fin nippers...
I have one of those stone filters and thinking this is what was going on I replaced the stone. The filter is undergravel and does not take up much space. When I turn off the filter the fish looks at i...
i bought the api liquid test kit. my nitrites are still high 2.o. i read to install the api nitra zorb filter and to put in the api stress zyme. should i use these or just allow my biological filter t...
which one?power filter?what's the size of your tank?you must decide the power filter depends on the size of the aquarium..but still your tank is dirty so you change 40% water chang in every week....
...y. My PH tester is ok because my tap water has a PH of 7.5. I have a gravel substrate with an underground filter with two power heads also a external filter. The gravel is'nt that dirty and i hav...
...ater for a week now. I have had the tank for about 6 weeks. I just tested my water which is run through a filter and it is showing .25 on the Nitrite and .25 on ammonia. My tank's readings are:
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Why pay $10, $15, even $20 dollars every other month on filters when you can get them at a fraction of the price by making them yourself?
Its much easyer than you think and it can save you alot of mo...
i recently purchased a rope fish
do i need to worry about it going into my canister filter or my internal filter or do they only do it on rare occasions?
also do will my cichlids eat him? the ...
...antail guppies. i had the tank forlike a month before i added the fish. i let it cycle. then i changed my filter from the whisper 10-30i to the aquatech 20-40 that hangs over the tank. did this restar...
...uickly so the partial water changes are especially important. Live plants will also help, as will a small filter. Since you already have a small air pump, you could replace the bubbler with a sponge t...
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