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Sunsun is a chinese brand and is a ripoff of eheim. I would say go with a Eheim or better yet get a Fluval canister filter. I have the Fluval G3 and it is great.

Aqueon filters for hang on back filtration. I love them because the motor is physically under the water which dampens the noise. For cansiter filtration I prefer Fluval and have had 3 fluval canister filters with my current one being a Fluval G3. For UV sterlization I use "The green killing...

Ammonia is very toxic at those levels. Actually any ammonia in an aquarium is toxic. How long has the tank been cycled?

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Oh yea forgot to mention I do put shrimp pellets for the bottom feeders in my tank. I think my pleco sometimes will find one and eat them too.

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You probally won't get much for them I would give it away to a good home just to know it was going to grow up healthy with space to roam.

First of all how gallons is your tank? Also remebr plecos get big. Mine was as small as yours but now is 14 inches long. Most people with a tank 100 gallons or less only keep one pleco. Anyways when they are small feed each pleco a half a wafer then when there bigger give each one 1 wafer a day...

I do not recommend U3's, I would reommend a hang on the back filter (aqueon) if you are looking for a relativly cheap but good solution for filtration.

As I \mentioned in a prvious thread _______________________________ Algae needs Nitrogen, phosphate, potassium, and light to survive. So keep things in check and you can get rid of the algae problem. Never use a chemical to treat algae problem unless its your last reort. Also remeber algaecides...

Boil the driftwood for an hour. Then in a clean sterile bucket let in soak in dechlorinated/chloramine water for 1 week to 2 weeks to let most of the tannins leech out. Then rinse with dechlorinated/chloramine water and then you can place the driftwood in the aquarium.

I vaccum my substrate weekly. I also make sure 15 to 25 percent of the water is changed each week. I have an established tank and around 50 fish and do not worry about the beneficial bacteria. I do not worry cause it grows on the substrate, my 2 hang on the back filters which I have put bio...

I have a common pleco and he eats 2 algea wafers a day, one in the morning and one in the evening. Also I have a big piece of driftwood in the tank for him to munch on. I tried veggies for 3 months when he was young but he would not eat them. Also I tried a diffrent brand of wafers and he...

Hope they survive. WIth the water change and mystery 'chemical' you will probaly go through at least a mini cycle, so I would do a 10% water changes every few day for the next month since you do not know how poent or if any trace amounts of the mystery "chemical" are in the tank still.

Well try to use dish sponges if your doing it on da cheap. The wiill hold lots of BB.

TRy to make a wet/dry filter that would work for the pond. I think if u made a "massive" wet/dry filter it would work good for the pond.

Actually benifitual bacteria will grow almost anywhere. But you want the correct benefitual bacteria to grow and you also want the media it is growing on to have a big surface area. Sponges in my opinion are not good cause to much waste will get in the sponge and it will clog to quickly. A...

Hello, I have been away from the community for a while. I forgot my password and atuallylosed my old email accountso I could not get my password sent/reset :facepalm:. Well today I had dumb luck and remembered my password :dance:. I am happy to be back.

This is why your fish may be disappearing... :facepalm::eek:

If you are going to have plants in the tank I would take out the chemical carbon cartridge. Then you could add additional bio media. If you are not keeping plants just load one of the baskets with bio media and one chemical media (i.e carbon ) if you like. I do not run carbon in my setup and I...

Careful the aquarium hobby takes time. It can take weeks to months to properly cycle a tank. Then fish should be added slowly (not all at once) so that the bio load is not increased disproportionately so the beneficial bacteria can grow and establish itself to deal with each new fish.

Maybe he is hiding under/in on of your decorations. Or maybe you need to get glasses if you have any cause maybe the fish is right there and you can not see him do to your bad eyesight. If you do have glasses maybe you need a new perscription... lol j/k. But seriously maybe he is hidding in or...

Be careful, 2 neon tetras? They will have a lot of stress unless you have a school of them. I have 12 neon tertras but that would be to many for that tank. Are you planning on re homing any of the fish or moving to a bigger tank?

If you would have sufficently researched the product you would know Purigen is made by a company called Seachem. There instructions for renewing it are as follows "Regeneration: Soak in a 1:1 bleach:water solution for 24 hours in a non-metalic container in a well ventilated area and away...

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