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Quotes from marineland discontinued items search Q do you have a replacement magnetic impeller assembly that will fit a marineland penguin 330 filter? i understand the 330 is discontinued, but i cannot find any magnetic impeller assembles anywhere. what am i to do? BREX · 2 years ago No...

Phillips catalogue http://images.philips.com/is/content/PhilipsConsumer/PDFDownloads/United%20States/ODLI20150513_001-UPD-en_US-sg100-2013.pdf go by whats is labeled on the bulb itself eg F40/PLANT part # 39228-2 saying that after looking through all the listings inback to 2003 Cats. none...

http://www.mkka.net/articles/DaphniaCultureMadeSimple.html best article I've read on the subject. I did manage to hatch a few from the eggs using the soak in 2% bleach solution method but failed to get them to reproduce. hatching paper...

for s 36x18 foot print 1/2 inch deep = 1.4026 U.S. gallons, 0.1875 cubic feet 1 inch deep = 2.8052 U.S. gallons,0.375 cubic feet 2 inches deep = 5.6104 U.S. gallons,0.75 cubic feet. 3 inches deep 8.4156 U.S. gallons, 1.125 cubic feet. so when you know what you are going to put down determine its...

look like "egg's" Baby snails would be my guess,dont panic,nothing wrong with snails. scoop 1 out & look close with magnifier. then perhaps some one can ID the breed.

Well seems you cursed me with the :ermm: "high water doesn't work for me" statement for I look the next morning & Aphrodite has laid a small strip (about 3/4 inch long)in wifes tank. she would have had to of had over 3/4 of her shell under water to do that where she did..LOL

To halt reproduction all that is required is to raise the water level to under 2 inches or so from the top of the tank. the females will climb up & check the overhead space & retreat. BTW I have 2 more clutch's now should be hatching in another cple weeks,there was 5 survivors after I had to...

test your valves by blowing into 1 end, if it does blow thru then suck on same end & place your tongue over the hole. If it doesnt blow thru turn it around & repeat the above. If the check valve is working it will stick to your tongue indefinitely. if it comes loose right away then there is...

to stop the egg laying raise the water level to 1 inch of the top of the tank..they will not lay eggs in that tank again.

crushed lava rock is VERY sharp. due to it being Vitrified natural glass. I have a rock crusher which i used on some awhile back to make a packing for a project. It will readily scratch glass,if it was tumbled for a period & crushed to 20-60 mesh it would be very nice but without tumbling the...

It will be fine. Activated carbon has a limited amount of absorption once that is reached then it becomes inert,holding onto what ever it has gathered. the bond is ionic so can not be easily broken to release what is has gathered. (High heat,acids etc) once it becomes Inert it has Ideal...

A couple of weeks back I took 1 of the wifes 3 Mystery snails & placed into a tank which i'm prepping in hopes of raising Daphnia in. within 30 hrs she climbed up out of the water & laid a 2 in long clutch of eggs. tank is a 25 G & approx water level 5 inches from the top. so I scraped the...

had mine for 3 months & It works well. dont get carried away with "bigger is better" they have lots of power, the down side is if you get 1 to large you wont be able to turn it down enough. I run my PP4 on lev 4 ,that is high enough to stir the sand around on the bottom of my 38G BF 500-4000L...

the stem seal on a valve like that will only be an O-ring under/inside the body nut. close valve snug,loosen handle screw. open valve a full turn or more,remove handle. undo the body nut & unscrew/open valve fully untill stem/body nut assembly comes free of the body. slide stem from body nut &...

DE wont bother snails i have a MTS population in the tank above & have not seen any problems with the population. The Invert warning applies to shrimp & other invert's with Hinged body joints which the DE can pierced & lead to death by infection.(loss of body fluids on terestrial's) most cat/dog...