QuietPlotter
Aquarium Advice Freak
Hello, AA!
I am here to discuss my 10 gallon aquarium. It is an all-glass model...
Filter- Aqueon Quiet Power Flow (BS)
Carbon foam pad, with spunky blue rubber things for bio and mechanical filtration.
Heater-None. Water is always 78 (Florida!) and hits 82 with the lights on all day.
Airstone-Not Needed
Fish- Three Platys, One Pleco, One Fiddler Crab. Soon getting three sparkling gouramis or one larger gourami.
Levels- Ammo 0 Nitrite 0 Nitrate 10-20 PH 7.6
So, I just ordered the AquaClear 150 (For 30 Gallon Tanks). It's going in my 10g. Anyways, how do I do the filter swap? My 29 and 45 run Penguin and Emperor, but I put those on before adding fish and before cycling. Anyways, this is my first time changing the filter in a running tank.
This tank has been up for around 3 months.
So, I ordered the aquaclear 150 (I know. Incase you forgot). It is going to arrive Thurs or Friday. My question is, how do I do the switch?
I would run both at the same time, but the hood only has a hole for one, and I would take the hood off, but my fiddler crab would escape!
How do I do this? Should I remove the stock filter and place the pad in the AquaClear? The filter instructions/descriptions say that all the BB live on the rubber blue stuff, not the cartridge. So do you think it would be OK to run both at once? I might figure out a way.
How do I go about this? I don't want to crash my bio and kill my fish...
Thanks,
QP
I am here to discuss my 10 gallon aquarium. It is an all-glass model...
Filter- Aqueon Quiet Power Flow (BS)
Carbon foam pad, with spunky blue rubber things for bio and mechanical filtration.
Heater-None. Water is always 78 (Florida!) and hits 82 with the lights on all day.
Airstone-Not Needed
Fish- Three Platys, One Pleco, One Fiddler Crab. Soon getting three sparkling gouramis or one larger gourami.
Levels- Ammo 0 Nitrite 0 Nitrate 10-20 PH 7.6
So, I just ordered the AquaClear 150 (For 30 Gallon Tanks). It's going in my 10g. Anyways, how do I do the filter swap? My 29 and 45 run Penguin and Emperor, but I put those on before adding fish and before cycling. Anyways, this is my first time changing the filter in a running tank.
This tank has been up for around 3 months.
So, I ordered the aquaclear 150 (I know. Incase you forgot). It is going to arrive Thurs or Friday. My question is, how do I do the switch?
I would run both at the same time, but the hood only has a hole for one, and I would take the hood off, but my fiddler crab would escape!
How do I do this? Should I remove the stock filter and place the pad in the AquaClear? The filter instructions/descriptions say that all the BB live on the rubber blue stuff, not the cartridge. So do you think it would be OK to run both at once? I might figure out a way.
How do I go about this? I don't want to crash my bio and kill my fish...
Thanks,
QP