Recent content by Jlombard80

Yea I’m hoping it clears up soon I just dosed it a second time with clarifier and no change

I have 9 juveniles in a 36x18x24, I looked at powerheads and they were like $150 each, I can get another penn plax cascade 1000 like I have on my 75 for $125, leaning that way. The water was crystal clear when the fish went in, I even put in two at a time per day, and like 3 days later it went...

For $127 it does the same thing if not better than my $400 fluval, and each model has a 3 basket setup and a 5 basket. I have the three basket and I added a Purigen bag and matrix

Also, no matter what level setting I have it on the side the intake goes into the filter leaks out back into the water and my water smells bad

I have a penn plax cascade 1000 on my 75, $120 Canadian and I’m probably gonna buy one for this 65 too, it is phenomenal, highly recommended for the price if u do decide to get one. I have big fish in my 75 too and the water stays crystal clear and hardly any debris on the substrate as the...

Yea, I cycled the same way as my other tanks with the same chemicals, all my other tanks have canisters and the water parameters are perfect. I just did a test and all came back just as the other tanks, this is weird

I’m just thinking of returning and it going canister like my other tanks. I heard really good things about this HOB tho so I wanted to try.

I just set up a 65 gallon tall tank for my African. Cichlids and I’m using an aqua clear 70 and it is having a tough time keeping the water clear. I bought an extension for the intake tube since it’s a tall tank but I can’t even make out how this filters current runs. It only sucks up debris if...

Yea I’m a bit nervous lol

Yea it’s cerium oxide, hopefully it works, I got this fully intact 50 gallon for $20 but it has some salt damage on the outside. Hoping this stuff will work

Same, hey do either of you gentlemen have any experience polishing glass? I bought some glass polish for this 50 gallon I bought yesterday because it needs it bad, skeptical though.

Yes agreed, I try to buy from private breeders as often as possible, there are a few one off stores that are clean and maintain their tanks. But you can go into any Petsmart and a good percentage of their tanks will have fish covered in ich. What gets me is they let the fish die, never treat the...

I will keep that in mind, ich wasn’t as bad as the new tank syndrome, lost 6 of 11 fish from that. Ich looks worse than it is unless it gets into their gills then it’s bad. My jewel, Kenyi, and vestuvus and Dempsey were the only 4 original fish to survive both. I just turned up the temp to 86...

I have not tried either of those. I’ve read that if I take Purigen out the floss pads will have to take on what the Purigen did. Good thing is Purigen can be regenerated up to 10 times and matrix never has to be replaced. I had a bad case of new tank syndrome and ich at the same time a couple...

Lol I have a polar blue parrot and he does the same, his name is Huey and he’s hilarious. He’s in there with a Dempsey, firemouth, and jewel and he’s the boss