[AquaticLife] Issue With Fluval Cannister Filters
My Rena Filstar XP’s use the clear/opaque 1″ tubing and they also get algae growing inside the tubes. I like the smooth tubing over corrugated any day.. Once a year, I take a bottle brush and a long piece of string and use my house vacuum cleaner to suck the string through the tubing, then pull the bottle brush through once or twice and it cleans all the algae.
I think a black tubing would be more of an algae inhibitor since we know that algae needs nutrients and light to thrive so if you can get access to black food grade tubing, go for that option.
Of course, whenever I do filter maintenance and restart the filter, some of that algae breaks free and goes spurting into the tank but my goldfish go crazy eating it so I don’t think it’s “unhealthy”… of course, I have clear tubing so I can see it’s just algae so I’m not sure what is growing on the inside of blackened tubing.
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