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Anyone know of a small, inexpensive canister filter of which this isn't true?

I'm confused, because when I look at pictures like this it looks like there are rigid pieces shaped to hang over the edge of the tank. http://www.bigalsonline.com/catalog/product.xml?product_id=32313;category_id=4016

Isn't the Red Top Zebra actually Maylandia emmiltos? I love Google for making me look smart; I don't know the first thing about this. :)

Let me come at this a second way. With a canister filter, what exactly extends into the tank? Is it just a couple of flexible tubes, or is there some rigid plastic part that hangs on the edge of the aquarium?

I didn't have good results with it. There is an old thread around here somewhere chronicling my saga. I used two different packets, obtained from two completely different sources---one mail-ordered, one from a local lfs---and didn't get the expected results with either. I put some fish...

Petsmart has cc on their web page, but I found out the hard way that it isn't in my store. So I ordered it from Big Al's. I don't have a filter with compartments yetm but see my thread about adding a second filter to an Eclipse 12.

Do you have a bio-wheel filter? With that, you may not need an airstone. As I understand it--and I'm no expert---its splashing mixes enough air into the water for a tank our size. (Mine is a 12 galon.) But you need to have some way to aerate the water for the fish. What temperature is your...

I have a Marineland Eclipse 12 aquarium. I'm kind of interested in adding a second filter, in addition to the one built into the hood. One reason is that I don't think that the built in one is all that special, especially in terms of eliminating particles from the water. Another is that folks...

My hunch is that they don't. I guess they have coral, though, for decorative purposes. And I already have a hammer.. :)

Thanks to everyone for their help. I did some reading online this A.M. According to my city's water quality report, our tap water has an alkalinity (buffering capacity) of 35 mg/L. I found a conversion chart on an aquarium page that tells me this is equivalent to 1.96 dKH. From what JChillin...

I'm going to get a kh testing kit today. I double checked my low pH reading last night, and it was still 6.0. I had a bucket of treated tap water sitting around that I was heating to the proper temp for a pwc; when I checked it for purposes of comparison, it was very close to 7.0. Assuming...

I do have my own kit (and not one with strips). I just hadn't worried much about pH until the LFS checked it. The reason I had it checked was that I had added several ghost shrimp and they died very quickly. My nitrates, etc. weren't bad, so I suspect the pH as the cause. I'll look into...

I'm having trouble maintaining a proper pH in my tank, as I discovered when I had water tested recently at my LFS. Last week when it was tested it was 6.0. I used a "Correct pH" tablet to bring it up to 7.0., and I verified that it did work. (I added it in sections, over a day or two, to...

Thanks. Unfortunately, I lost him before I had a chance to act on any of this. Frankly, I am really at a crossroads with this aquarium. I know this a decision that no one else can make for me, but maybe someone here will say something that clarifies my thinking. I've had the aquarium set...

I have a smallish tank, an Ecplise 12. Right now it is home to a m/f pair of dwarf power blue gourami and 5 neon tetras, so it isn't overstocked. The male gourami is clearly weakening; I suspect that he is on his last legs. I noticed something odd the other day, which was there was a bright...

I figured this out today when I installed the new filter. Probably no one else in the history of the planet will have the problem I did, but I'll explain what I screwed up just in case some other poor soul is serarching the archives some day. When the instructions said to fold up the tab, I...

Well, it came with it. It is a G filter.

I know tha several other people have Eclipse 12s. I'm not 100% sure how the carbon filter is supposed to be positioned. It seems just a little long, even with the tab at the end folded up, and I can't get it to lay quite flat. As I have it now, water covers the first half of the filter, but...

Thanks again! :) I haven't fed them yet today. Was that right? Edit: Ammonia is still about 0.25 PPM. Nitrites are 0.

I'm a complete newby myself, and won't possibly be able to answer your question, but I bet the first thing that someone else will want to know is what kind of fish you have.

About 13 hours ago I stocked a 12 gal. aquarium (my first) with a couple of dwarf Gourami, a couple of Corys, and a handful of Neons. I added a packet of Bio-Spira just before the fish went in. At this point, my ammonia is at 0.25 ppm and my nitrites are 0 (which I take to mean that I am not...

One tetra already died. What is terrible is that I saw it but now can't find it. Hopefully it will float up again soon. :(

Boy, problems immediately ensue. First, my thermometer broke. The suction cup on it never would work, even under water; now the glass tube came off the plastic back. The glass didn't break, at least. Fortunately, I brew beer. This means not only that I have plenty of alcohol around to...

Well, I just got back from the pet store, and of course in the end what I did was completely different from what I had planned. :) I got two powder blue dwarf gourami, 6 neons, and 2 Peruvian cories. Their bags are floating in the tank now; as soon as I hit SUBMIT, I will put some tank water...

I may be going for fish as soon as tomorrow. I decided that blue rams might be a little too hard to care for, so I am going to go for a combo of cherry bard, dwarf gourami (sp?) and ghost shrimp. Any advice as to the proper numbers of each?