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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

Yes I actually just did it for the first time a few days ago. I soaked in a 1:1 water to all purpose bleach mix for 24 hours. Rinse it thoroughly and then soak it in clean water and 1-2 caps of Seachem Prime for another 8 hours, rinse and it’s good to go. It has worked great since. I love...

I love it, I run Purigen and matrix in it and my water conditions have gone from fatal to perfect in about 3 weeks and crystal clear, highly recommend.

So my polar blue parrot cichlid and my firemouth are breeding as we speak. This seems to be an odd combo but I would imagine these babies will be beautiful. Anyone else have any weird breeding couples?

Thank you, i have a penn plax cascade 1000, I put the intake, exhaust, and heater all next to each in a back corner and it seems to be working out well, much better current and warm water distribution. The fish seem to love the current as they all let it sweep them across the tank and then they...

I have 14 assorted cichlids in my tank, they get bug bites in the morning and at night I alternate between blood worms and brine shrimp. They love all three. Just out of curiosity I had an albino zebra mbuna for about 3 days and it was attacking all of my other fish, how does yours get along...

I started using seachem prime for the same reason about two weeks ago and my levels have all bottomed out pretty fast, I use seachem stability too with it. I also just added seachem matrix and Purigen to my filter and it has made huge improvements in just two days. I had the new tank syndrome...

Thank you

Thanks man, I’m going to move all three next to each other in a corner

Also, my exhaust inside the tank only goes down about 4 inches, when I top off the tank it is barely underwater. Should it be completely underwater? Or stay At the water line? I can point it in any direction straight away, but not up and down, I feel like I would get a much better flow if I...

Where does everyone position their intake, exhaust and heaters? I’ve seen some videos where they are all set up right next to each other in a corner, and I’ve also seen videos where all three are set up in different corners.