Recent content by willy1094

Yeah, I figured the shut off out. If you pull up the tab on the top, it shuts both lines off. :rolleyes: As far as bubble, mine starts off with air for a few days after opening it up or replacing media. I can get more bubbles/air if I shake it but only when I shake it. Mine does have a small...

Hello, I have a 125gal tank that I'm trying to restock after I had a few fish die (I missed an ick problem until it was too late I think). I currently have to gold severums, two pleco, three lace catfish, one feather fin cat and two peacock eels. The feather fin is about 5", eels 4" and all...

Thanks for the advice. I went to my lfs and they gave me a ich treatment and said it would be safe for me eels. I now have two 300 watt heaters on the tank. I only had one before and it kept the water right at 78 so I'm hoping to get it up to about 83. I also picked up aquarium salt as I...

Hello, I need some advice! I have at about 1" each: 3 angels, and two gold sevrums. About 2" each: 3 catfish, 2 plecos, and 6 garami. About 4": 2 peacock eels and at about 6" a feather fin cat. Several of these guys have ich. I need to know what medication I can use that will not kill my...

Hello, This may be a really dumb question but I'm new to canisters. I just picked up a c-360 a couple of weeks ago for my 125gal and noticed that they do not have a shut off valve on the two lines. Does this thing have check valves built in so that when I take the top off it will not allow...

What would your suggestion be then? I'll take all the help I can get! I have one cat and one pleco what can I add? I don't have an alge problem and don't want too many pleco unless they are happy eating poo :) I can get two more good sized pleco's if they are ok eating off the bottom. If...

I know what you mean about there being the same amount of waste. It's in the system either floating or trapped in filter media. I do believe the new filter (I think I'm going with eheim 2080 ) with give me much better bio filtering as well as larger surface area to catch the large bits comming...

Thanks for the advice. After thinking about it the canister does seem the right path since all my waste drops to the bottom with very little at the top of the tank. I plan on still running my HOBs and with the cost of the canister will be limiting it to one for now. If I could find a eheim...

Hello, Really long group of questions part 1 (sorry) Posting for more great advice. I have a 125gal long tank with about 16 Jack Depseys 1 cat and 1 pleco (newly added about 3 weeks ago. The smallest is the pleco at 3" and the largest are the JD's at about 6" or more. I am currently only...

Dave, Thanks for the extra info. You think I'd be ok just taking the cat out of the tank? I don't need all of them to make it but would like at least half since they lay quite a few eggs. I also have a pleco. Would he try to get at them also. These fish just seem to stress a lot when...

After the last batch (this would be the second batch and I posted about the first) I don't think I have a lot to worry about. These JD's don't seem typical according to what I'm reading about them. They are not aggressive twrd eachother or the catfish. I just introduced a pleco about 4" long...

Thanks for the reply... the lfs gave me a bottle of stuff for the fungus said it will keep it clear. Mom and dad have not been removing the bad eggs. They have had two batches...but they have been keeping all the fish away... really the cat is the only one that tries to get at them...the...

Thanks for the replies. I'll post pics soon. They are nice looking fish. I just want something different. I think I'll look into the fx5. Thanks again. Oh, buy they way. I've bought 4 of these led bars with 198 leds in each tube. They put out pretty good light but I'm not sure if they...

Oh, I plan on selling the Jack Dempsey and either going with a community tank of fish from a store or all native fish. If that helps at all.

Hello, I'm new to the hobby. I used to have small 10 and 20 gallon tanks but I've been given a 120 gallon tank. The tank came with 16 large (5-7 inch) Jack Dempseys. It came with two hang on filters and one magnum (the magnum is the only one that i know the name of) canister filter. The...