Twoapennything
Aquarium Advice Freak
First of all, thank you to everyone for tolerating my incessant questions - I really appreciate it.
Some of you might remember my post a few weeks back about my Penguin 100 filter that just stopped working for no apparent reason. Well, today I exchanged the Penguin for an Aqua ClearPower
Filter (the box says "Formerly AquaClear 150"). Thing is, the tank is newly cycled and has perfect readings with ammonia, nitrites, and nitrates all at zero and a pH of 7.6-7.8.
If I replace the filter, will I totally decimate the tank's biological well being? Right now I have a crappy Tetra filter going - it's the one that came with the tank kit and I consider it my back up filter.
How should I handle this? How can I change out the filters without destroying the good bacteria balance? I read that most of the good bacteria lives in the filter, so I'm worried. I could seed the tank with the filter from the Tetra if that would help. Any advice is welcome. Thanks!
ETA: I forgot to mention that this is a 10 gallon tank.
Some of you might remember my post a few weeks back about my Penguin 100 filter that just stopped working for no apparent reason. Well, today I exchanged the Penguin for an Aqua ClearPower
Filter (the box says "Formerly AquaClear 150"). Thing is, the tank is newly cycled and has perfect readings with ammonia, nitrites, and nitrates all at zero and a pH of 7.6-7.8.
If I replace the filter, will I totally decimate the tank's biological well being? Right now I have a crappy Tetra filter going - it's the one that came with the tank kit and I consider it my back up filter.
How should I handle this? How can I change out the filters without destroying the good bacteria balance? I read that most of the good bacteria lives in the filter, so I'm worried. I could seed the tank with the filter from the Tetra if that would help. Any advice is welcome. Thanks!
ETA: I forgot to mention that this is a 10 gallon tank.