mimiheart
Aquarium Advice Freak
My 20 gallon is kept in my daughter's room. It was originally hers. It's still kinda hers... she feeds them and helps with water changes. But maintenance and all that is my duty. Well, I went in today and noticed the HOB is dead. The waterfall part of it is bone dry.
So... I keep a spare sponge filter in my 40. Partially to over filter the 40 (It's overstocked with fish who eat a lot.) But also because I like having backup filters, just in case. My kids tease me that we never have just in cases. Except when we need an emergency hospital tank. (A few weeks ago we had a columnaris outbreak in the 20.) Or when we have a new fish suddenly that needs a quarantine. Or when a filter that's worked fine for years just stops working.
I pulled one of my sponge filters and put it in the 20 gallon along with the most annoying air pump ever invented. (I got it for cheap at one point.) I said I'd get a non horrible one later, but the filter was working and was cycled, which was the important part.
I had to go to a vet clinic to get something for my sick dog, and they're discontinuing all their fish supplies, so I got the tetra whisper air pump I was going to get anyhow for half off. And some cheaper than usual air lines and a check valve. Not too bad. Still need to get another sponge filter for my tank to repopulate it. But crisis averted for the 20 to not have a filter.
So... I keep a spare sponge filter in my 40. Partially to over filter the 40 (It's overstocked with fish who eat a lot.) But also because I like having backup filters, just in case. My kids tease me that we never have just in cases. Except when we need an emergency hospital tank. (A few weeks ago we had a columnaris outbreak in the 20.) Or when we have a new fish suddenly that needs a quarantine. Or when a filter that's worked fine for years just stops working.
I pulled one of my sponge filters and put it in the 20 gallon along with the most annoying air pump ever invented. (I got it for cheap at one point.) I said I'd get a non horrible one later, but the filter was working and was cycled, which was the important part.
I had to go to a vet clinic to get something for my sick dog, and they're discontinuing all their fish supplies, so I got the tetra whisper air pump I was going to get anyhow for half off. And some cheaper than usual air lines and a check valve. Not too bad. Still need to get another sponge filter for my tank to repopulate it. But crisis averted for the 20 to not have a filter.