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WOW you guys have great advice. Thanks a million. gail

Intake on right side, output on left side of tank. I clean my canister probably every 3 months, I don't have many fish in the tank, silver dollars, a few zebras and some black skirt tetras. When I clean the tank it doesn't seem like the intake is working, but water is coming out of the outtake...

I have 2 bubble disks in my tank, wouldn't that help with circulation?

I don't think my canister filter is powerful enough to pull in the waste in my tank. I have a Marine land Canister filter in my 47 gallon bow front fish tank. Probably a 220, I use a polishing pad, o rings, bio balls, as well as filter foam and filter fiber in the canister. Am I overloading the...

heads, where the air comes out of. I took my Whisper air pump apart, thought I could just replace the heads and can't access them. Plastic heads just don't last long.

I had a Whisper air pump in my 47 gallon tank, ran 2 lines for bubble stones. However my valves keep breaking, took apart the Whisper air pump and there is no way to reach the valves. Is there something better out there or something that can be repaired instead of tossing the whole thing and...

I was reading where someone put water conditioner in their tank everyday because they said water conditioner only works for a few minutes. I've never heard if that, my tank water is sparkling clear and I only use water conditioner when I clean out my tanks. Is that a waste of product, or...

I have a rainbow shark, they are much nicer, territorial, but not as mean as red tailed sharks.

I order mine from Drs. Foster & Smith.

I am using a Marineland Canister Filter C220 in my 47 gallon bow front tank which is great, however as I'm cleaning my tank stirring up the excess food it isn't being sucked into the filter. I was wondering if maybe I have too much media in my 4 baskets. I just cleaned the filter I'd say about a...

Why can't I delete this? Oh boy!

I refuse to purchase anything from Aqueon. Lesson learned, you get what you pay for. thanks for the info.

I need to blow off some steam about my heaters, a few months ago the heater in my 47 gallon bow front tank over heated killing quite a few of my fish, so I purchased a controller for my heater, which is working out perfectly. Sunday when I fed the fish in my 19 gallon none of them came up...

I have a thermometer in my tank, it's easier when I walk by to stick my fingers in the water instead of turning the light on to read the thermometer.

Darn it, my heater malfunctioned and I now have 6 dead fish. I'm forever sticking my fingers in the water to make sure it isn't too warm, missed yesterday and as a result my tank was at 100 degrees. :banghead:

I don't want to remove the strainer, I want to secure it to keep my small fish safe, because when the silver dollars knock it off the small fish end up inside my canister filter and I have to open it up and take them out. I just need some suggestions on how to secure the strainer to the intake tube.

because they treat their employees like ****.

Take that snail out of your tank, when I purchased fish at PetSmart a snail was in the bag and I thought it would be cute to have A snail, well one snail turns into hundreds. My tank was so infested I had to take all the substrate out of my tank and replace it.

My husband worked at Aqueon once upon a time, would never buy their products.

From time to time my silver dollars knock off the strainer on my filter. Once the strainer is gone as my smaller fish swim past the filter it sucks them into the canister. Rather than gluing the strainer on to the intake tube I was thinking of drilling a small hole into the strainer and intake...

I use rings in my canister filter, never heard of using them in a hob filter. DF&S sells super fine lime filter pads in sheets. I might try that instead of the carbon sheet. I see what you are saying about the felt, I could use felt and something else to sandwich the felt so it would stand up.

I have a Whisper filter (HOB) that uses 2 large Bio-Bag carbon cartridges along with a sponge in each slot. I was wondering rather than buying cartridges for this filter (which are getting really expensive) if I could make my own filters, they sell carbon pads 1/2 inch to 1 inch at Drs. Foster &...

I purchased it through Drs. Foster & Smith, in their aqua section, so I assume it's fine. thanks for the info. gail

I bought some filter wool for my canister filter, how many layers of the wool do I put in a basket? Do I fill it full, my other baskets are filled with balls, ceramic rings, polishing pads and filter pads. I have 4 baskets in my canister filter. gail

In my 47 gallon bow front community tank I run a Marineland Multi Stage Canister Filter, it's very quiet. I've had the filter for about 6 months now and absolutely love it. I like the canister filters over the hob (I used hob's for at least 10 years, this is my first canister filter). gail