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meegosh said:
I'm not familiar with how rena's flow but if it is bottom to top I think you may need to rearrange. Same with your AC110. AC's flow bottom to top, out the waterfall. You would want your coarse sponge at the bottom, bio in the middle and floss up top with a few bioballs on top to keep it in the filter.

The same would be true with your Rena if it is like my Fluval. You want the coarse sponge to trap all the big debris, you wouldn't want your bio balls catching all that, they will be impossible to clean .
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That does make sense. I'll have to have a look and see what is best.
 
meegosh said:
I'm not familiar with how rena's flow but if it is bottom to top I think you may need to rearrange. Same with your AC110. AC's flow bottom to top, out the waterfall. You would want your coarse sponge at the bottom, bio in the middle and floss up top with a few bioballs on top to keep it in the filter.

The same would be true with your Rena if it is like my Fluval. You want the coarse sponge to trap all the big debris, you wouldn't want your bio balls catching all that, they will be impossible to clean .
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:agree:
The Rena are from the bottom up. The water flows on the sides of the baskets then up threw the middle.

Good eye Meegosh
 
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I will take care of that issue.

So I looked at my stock and it looks like my stock list includes 3 types that are blue and one that is red. Will this look good? And is there a way to get some variation??
 
rlstoll said:
I will take care of that issue.

So I looked at my stock and it looks like my stock list includes 3 types that are blue and one that is red. Will this look good? And is there a way to get some variation??
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I would change the msobo or however it is spelled and look around on there site for something else. The female afra looks like a grayish blue
 
Andrew McFadden said:
No bee but labs work
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Nice. I think that is what I'll do then. I always liked the look of a yellow lab.

So I'll have blue red and yellow. Pretty good. I know a lot of people with cichlid tanks that have a pleco too? Is that a good idea or not for this tank? Maybe give it more variation in color along with more movement.
 
rlstoll said:
Nice. I think that is what I'll do then. I always liked the look of a yellow lab.

So I'll have blue red and yellow. Pretty good. I know a lot of people with cichlid tanks that have a pleco too? Is that a good idea or not for this tank? Maybe give it more variation in color along with more movement.
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Pleco's don't really move or swim around a lot but if ya wanted you could add one. Cichlids usually leave them alone. I didn't have one for the longest time till someone gave one to me. I don't see it a lot and it blend in with the background. It will however help keep the rocks clean. So it's more of personal preferences if ya get one or not. You could also get synodontis catfish. You'll need to watch whatever you get because both ( some) synodontis and pleco get huge.
 
Andrew McFadden said:
Pleco's don't really move or swim around a lot but if ya wanted you could add one. Cichlids usually leave them alone. I didn't have one for the longest time till someone gave one to me. I don't see it a lot and it blend in with the background. It will however help keep the rocks clean. So it's more of personal preferences if ya get one or not. You could also get synodontis catfish. You'll need to watch whatever you get because both ( some) synodontis and pleco get huge.
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Alright cool. I'll look into it. It might be cool to have a bottom dweller in there ( i think they are at least). Do you know which types would be good that don't get too big? I'll have to look at the fish profiles of some.
 
rlstoll said:
Alright cool. I'll look into it. It might be cool to have a bottom dweller in there ( i think they are at least). Do you know which types would be good that don't get too big? I'll have to look at the fish profiles of some.
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For your size tank I'd have to look them up aswell
 
My wife looked up bottom dwellers for our 55g to go with our mbuna i remember a bristlenose pleco being one and what we currently have now which is synodontis dwarf petricola (also called lucipinnis) We have 4 they get like 3-4inchs
 
BlueCrawDaddy said:
My wife looked up bottom dwellers for our 55g to go with our mbuna i remember a bristlenose pleco being one and what we currently have now which is synodontis dwarf petricola (also called lucipinnis) We have 4 they get like 3-4inchs
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Thanks for the info! I'll look into those.
 
Looks like my tank hasn't started the cycle much. The ammonia looks about the same and 0 on the other two. Going to try to seed with more stuff.
 
Looks like my ammonia has gone down a little but still no nitrites or nitrates :/. What do you guys think?



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rlstoll said:
Looks like my ammonia has gone down a little but still no nitrites or nitrates :/. What do you guys think?
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Looks to me like the seeded filter pads isn't doing you much good. Keep it up it will cycle, plus you.can keep adding more bacteria from the other tank.
 
Andrew McFadden said:
Looks to me like the seeded filter pads isn't doing you much good. Keep it up it will cycle, plus you.can keep adding more bacteria from the other tank.
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I'm afraid if I take too much it will hurt my other tank.
 
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