HI JAN,
1) I am now dissatisfied with my bio filter…my water is slightly green as I believe my filter can no longer accommodate my koi’s.
*install a UV light or put shades over your pond to partially cover it from long exposure to sunlight. * 2) right now i have two pumps to filter water […]
Hi Amber,
What kind of lights do you have? I believe the right light is the most important factor and the other parameters will make a big difference too, pH GH KH TDS temp. etc., Do you have test kits especially for the Iron (Fe) you are supplementing? The kind of plants you can keep will […]
For now I have 1000kelvin daylight bulbs (2×65 watts), and I have actinics that I run for simulating dawn/dusk. I was planning on swapping out the bulbs for 6500k daylight bulbs which I just got today. I don’t have a test kit for iron or any of the other stuff I’m supplimenting […]
LOL, well at least with the Hillstreams I know it was because they’re slower, they move is short “spurts”. They are also active all night. I watch them creep over to the Angel’s area where they have their eggs laid and try to catch a midnight snack while the Angel’s are sleeping […]
LOL, it wasn’t like I was dangling the fish in front of him y’know . I figure if they were too slow to get out of the way then it’s a loss on my part I’m not going to cry about it, but I learned a valuable lesson, research all […]
I’m going to do that on the 55 gallon when I transfer them over, for now I had to put the filters like they are since the hood is wooden and I didn’t want to mess with cutting more holes in it when the filters were going to be on the tank […]
I would have thought for the Hillstreams, you would have put both intakes on one end and both returns on the other. Thus making it like a river flow. Place one at mid tank and one toward the bottom on each end… Obviously what you have works, just not what I imagined… […]
I also think it has to do with how big the tank is. My 125 gallon tends to have slower moving spots even though it’s greatly over filtered compared to how much filtration the previous owner had. I have slower moving fish in the tank and they don’t seem to have any […]
Steve,
Which model Eclipse? I’m not sure that would matter much but it might… with a larger model possibly having more room in the hood to make modifications/cuts in the hood to allow for a second filter system.
With the way an Eclipse hood having the lighting and filtration built into the hood, you will have […]
but for the small one gallon tank, it is the airstone that helps keep the tank filtered with the ugf that came with it.. but I already replaced the airstone yesturday .. my ten gallon tank is just kept aerated with the filter , an aquatech 5-15.. I keep my betta in a small filtered […]