robo-snickers
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
Why hello everyboy, i have a filter question
i have a 72 gallon bow front with a marineland emperor 400 and a marineland penguin 350.. all together its rated to clean about 160 gallons. these filters have done great but i have a major issue with them that maybe you guys can help. I do water changes once a week and alternate the filter i clean. Cleaning the filter consists of me cleaning the filter media with tank water and syphoning the dirty water left in the filter. However the problems comes in when i start the filter, no matter how much i clean them they still shoot a giant cloud of gunk in the tank. only way i can prevent this from happening is taking off the filter completely and rinsing the filter in the bathtub.. and still i will always get some type of gunk cloud. is this normal with these filters? its rather annoying since i do my best to get the tank looking nice only to have gunk fly all over my sand, plants, decorations.
I was also thinking maybe its tie to get a canister filter, but i dont want to pay an arm and a leg for a filter that has the same GPH as my two HOB filters. and suggestions?
i have a 72 gallon bow front with a marineland emperor 400 and a marineland penguin 350.. all together its rated to clean about 160 gallons. these filters have done great but i have a major issue with them that maybe you guys can help. I do water changes once a week and alternate the filter i clean. Cleaning the filter consists of me cleaning the filter media with tank water and syphoning the dirty water left in the filter. However the problems comes in when i start the filter, no matter how much i clean them they still shoot a giant cloud of gunk in the tank. only way i can prevent this from happening is taking off the filter completely and rinsing the filter in the bathtub.. and still i will always get some type of gunk cloud. is this normal with these filters? its rather annoying since i do my best to get the tank looking nice only to have gunk fly all over my sand, plants, decorations.
I was also thinking maybe its tie to get a canister filter, but i dont want to pay an arm and a leg for a filter that has the same GPH as my two HOB filters. and suggestions?