First, I always like to have 2 filters.
Second, while Eheim might be the highest quality, it comes with a high price as well. For my money I like the Rena Filstar XP3 and XP4 filters. Ive only had them 2 years so far however. My Eheims and my Renas do an […]
Ok guys, where shall i start from…..well the tap water smells ok….the bad smell is only for a few seconds after opening the cover in the morning…..so i tried something out last nite…..i kept the covers open the whole nite and guess what? not only the smell said good bye but the water now […]
Please forgive the commercial post - but these are not usually available at your local Wal-Mart……
The FLOW METER looks like an upside down test tube attached on top of a horizontal pipe. As the water rushes past it thru the pipe, it has a little thingee that rises up the tube to indicate how […]
Presently I’m using two pumps on my pond.
The waterfall and filter are powered by a older design Diamond Mag Flow pump I had for over 12 years. This pupm looks like a standard sump pump and is rated at 3,700 gph. This pump had turned may a Koi into chopped […]
I’ll second what Giancarlo has said about the canister filter. Maybe get the tank going with the whispers and then add the canister at a later date. Let the canister run for about a month then take off the Whispers. As i said in my previous post, a diatom filter will filter of the smallest […]
Yes I did just do a partial water change but the temp is the same and remained the same. It did look like a mating thing. I have T femails and 2 males in the ZD’s and one pearl Danio that I have no clue if it is a female or male by its fuller […]
Lenny, the description of the “budding effect” on your second link explains why so many more mounds are popping up so quickly. Thanks for that link!!!! Yes, I can do the shop vac thing. I was thinking too that I could hotwire an area around the pond to keep the […]
Hi Steve / Lenny Here comes my naivety, in the past when I’ve had fish (in the majority of occasion there been fresh water fish) this is the second time in my life that I’ve kept tropical and I’ve basically just put the tank together, waited for a week then started adding fish […]
Hi, I’m new to the group. My name is Jasmine (Canberra, Australia).
I have recently set up a tank (AquaOne 980) for tropical fish. I currently have the following in the tank; 2x bristle nose catfish 2x upside catfish (only been able to see 1 lately though) 5x red tetras 6x neon tetras 1x […]
Well had a interesting day today. Yesterday added some salt, not enough as specified but used all I had. I also put some limestone rocks in to help the PH. Today I didn’t have time to catch one of the ailing koi to inspect it, so I put my second pump on to add a […]