Recent content by max h

Just a quick one from a few weeks ago.

As long as your filter media stays wet you don't need to mess with the gravel part. Most of the BB is in the filter floss.

The intake and spray bar position is fine, the hoses can be trimmed back some. You do want some slack in the hose but not too much.

If you live up north a pair of 200 watt heaters would work, I.m south of I-10 and on my 55 a 150 watt was sufficient for what little use i would get. I would only plug it in around the first real cold front to come thru and unplug it a couple of months latter.

Leaks are not that big of a problem with canisters, especially with the new ones these days. Most people get leaks by not being careful during filter cleaning and damage an O-ring.

When you where running the 2 filters for 12 gays it sounds like they lost some of the BB due to no bioload. You could have added some fish food during that time to keep it cycling. When the Puffers where added you had a mini cycle going. You could have set up the canister on the new tank...

Fill out you're Cory shoal first, especially if they are all the same type. Cory's prefer groups of 6 or more, although they will not eat much algae. If there's stocking room left in the tank a group of Oto's are really good at algae removal.

Not a problem, there was no internet when I started keeping fish. But i have learned so much more about keeping them over the last 4 years that I took it up again.

Just let me know if you have more questions, if I don't have an answer I can find out, or point you in the right direction.

The carbon isn't the important part of the media the filter floss is where the bacteria lives. If they fit in the canister just put the whole thing in. When I upgraded from a 55 to the 110 I brought over my Marineland C-360 filter that I had on the 55 for a couple of years without problems...

For filtration I would probably go with a couple of canister filters where each is pumping 500 gph or more. The Sunsun 304b or 404b can be had for under $100 each on eBay. What you can do when you are ready to transfer your fish over is take the media out of the HOB filter and place it into...

Believe it or not the placement of everything involved no real planning. I just put the hard ornaments in and put the plants in as far as order of height and rather haphazardly. I do have to move some around soon.

So it's been a few weeks since I updated a picture. The plants have been growing like weeds.

If the house is single story with concrete slab construction no problem. If it has crawl space underneath or the tank is going upstairs find someone who knows about the weight bearing loads of the floors and the direction the support stringers run. A 120 will weigh in filled at over 1100...

I have a Marineland C-360 and will be picking up a Sunsun 304B in the future. For the fine filter pads I have seen a lot of people that are using polyfill for for stuffed toys as long as it isn't treated with a flame retardant. The coarse filter element can be ordered in bulk and cut to fit...