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My main goal would be to find a canister that I do not have to empty out to change the filters. I don't care much about having to turn it off -- I just dont want to have to carry it to the sink and empty it out. That's the beauty of the G3/G6 (in my eyes at least).

Does anyone know of a canister filter that has the easy to remove/replace/clean feature of the Fluval G3/G6 filter, but without the fancy shmancy electronics? The ability to take replace or clean the media without even stopping the filter seems amazing, but I have no interest (or budget) for...

Thanks. I definitely need to get a new bag -- knew I cut it too short the moment I cut it!

I guess the title is pretty self-explanatory (the top of the bag is above the water line) and this is my first experience with an HOB. Thanks!

I have a canister filter that is lousy with snails and I thought it might be a good idea to run a second filter on the tank for a bit so I could take the first filter off and give it a thorough cleaning that would likely kill all the bacteria. It is a 75-gallon tank. How long do you think I...

For now, i have the filter and heater hooked up to the ac outlet in my car. Will keep that up as long as i can And then wrap. Thanks for the advice and good wishes.

I have no power and a doa generator. I have water, so i can change the water daily, but what can i do for the water Temperature? I have a 75 gallon with gouramis, rainbows, loaches, angels, pictus, a rainbow shark and a blue crayfish. I am afraid they are all going to die of cold and am...

Still having this issue and back with some metrics. My tank pH got down to 5.1 this morning after a 50% water change on Sunday. I did another 50% change this morning. The immediate pH reading was 6.8 and 6 hours later it is down to 6.1. I am using a Milwaukee pH monitor and API KH/DH & pH...

I am about one year into a freshwater 75g aquarium. For the first 10 months or so I needed to use CO2 to bring down tap water with a pH in the mid to high 7s down into the mid to high 6s. For the last month or so, I have been getting very acidic readings a week after water changes despite tap...

I have three gouramis -- a male three-spot and opaline and gold females. The blue and golds are a little older than the opaline. The blue was always the biggest of the three, but now he is clearly the smallest. I can't tell if this is a case of the females outgrowing him or him being...

Thanks -- that makes a lot of sense.

I don't think so. It seemed to be a one-time thing. I have never witnessed any aggression at all between the Angels, one of which is bigger than the half black and one of which is much smaller. I watch the tank a lot with the lights on and sometimes with the lights off and have never seen a...

I have a half-black angel that got pretty beat up about three weeks ago. He seems to be making a slow and steady recovery - his feeler fins were lost and are starting to come back-- but over the last 24 hours I have noticed he likes wedging himself into tight spots -- behind ornaments, between...

I have 2 females that have been with me for a while and seem to be doing well. However, their coloration changes quite frequently, ranging from the dull rainbow I expected from females to a very pale yellow. I keep thinking that they must not be well, but the next time I look they have the...

I have a 75g tank that has largely been free of behavior problems. In 7 months of having this tank, I have not seen a single fish with any signs of physical stress/physical bullying. A lot of chasing (especially the rainbow shark and the blue gourami), but no physical harm. However, today (in...

I have a half black angel that is about silver dollar sized and 4-5 months old (I think). When I got him, there was was very little orange coloring but now he has gotten a decent amount of orange on his top half, including a streak in his dorsal fin. He seems otherwise fine. Is this anything...

My blue lobster is actually mostly scared of the other fish in the tank (angels, gouramis, loaches) and has only gone after (successfully) fish that were otherwise unhealthy. That being said, it seems 50/50 whether you get an aggressive one or not, and 20g seems awfully small. They are...

Any good ideas on how I can screen the top off and still leave some room for the automatic fish feeders? Trying to avoid cutting up styrofoam.

I've had 3 yoyo loaches for almost 8 months and rarely saw any of them get anywhere near the top of the tank. Last week I read a description of the Yoyos that said they are great jumpers and frequently jump out of tanks. I remember thinking that that seemed so unlikely with my guys. Well, I...

I haven't seen a pond snail in my tank in more than 4 months, yet my filter is still full of them, so I'm not so sure just cutting down on feeding is going to get the job done. Yours is one of those solutions that sounds better in theory than it tends to work in practice.

Well thanks everyone. Amazing how an entire industry has developed selling unnecessary additives for aquariums!

I follow the instructions on the prime -- I add enough for 75g to the tank before I add the water, rather than dosing for the replacement amount. I don't even know how I would treat 30-40 gallons of water prior to adding to the aquarium. How do people do that? Where do you put the water to...

A few yoyo loaches will clean them out in no time. You'll probably have a bunch in your filter as well.

My tank is six months old and doing well after some fits and starts, but I am still having a hard time figuring out what exactly I should be adding to my tank on a regular basis. It is a 75g freshwater tank with 3 angels, 3 yoyo loaches, 5 rainbows (3 turquoise, 2 boesemani), 3 gouramis, a...

I guess I should test for silicates -- although the Phos-Zorb is supposed to get rid of it as well as phosphates.