Phoenixphire55
Aquarium Advice Freak
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- Oct 14, 2007
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Ok, so I have a 20 gallon long tank with a sarasa comet and 3 dojo loaches. In the back corner is an aquaclear mini and in the front corner is a small powerhead blowing water across the glass front of the tank. I have two questions.
First, this tank is obviously way under filtered. The poop just collects in a pile in the middle of the tank from the swirling currents around the edges. I want to get a new filter, just one, that will filter the tank really well and that will suck up at leats most of the poop instead of it just collecting on the sand. So can someone reccomend a filter for that (HOB, not canister). I'm also wondering if it seems likely that the powerhead is causing more harm than good as far as preventing the filter from sucking up the poop. Lemme know what you think. Is the powerhead necessary? Sometimes I see the fish swimmming into the stream and it looks like they enjoy it but who knows. A lot of the time they seem to avoid it.
First, this tank is obviously way under filtered. The poop just collects in a pile in the middle of the tank from the swirling currents around the edges. I want to get a new filter, just one, that will filter the tank really well and that will suck up at leats most of the poop instead of it just collecting on the sand. So can someone reccomend a filter for that (HOB, not canister). I'm also wondering if it seems likely that the powerhead is causing more harm than good as far as preventing the filter from sucking up the poop. Lemme know what you think. Is the powerhead necessary? Sometimes I see the fish swimmming into the stream and it looks like they enjoy it but who knows. A lot of the time they seem to avoid it.