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I’ve had corys successfully spawn in a heavily planted established tank that had been running over a year. They survived with at least 8 adults and a few tiny tetras. Only realised when we noticed very small corys on the food. When I tore down my 500l tank we found 12 ottos and I only bought...

The coarse foam should catch the larger particles allowing the fine foam and floss to act as water polishers. With it in place your filter will be slower to clog up. Water flow is rapidly reduced by clogged fine sponges and floss. It also provides a home for biological filtration. With...

Hi, Please can I have some advice/recommendations. I'm looking for a small external filter that will fit under my fluval Roma 90. The doors are ridiculously narrow so need a filter less than 17cm wide with narrow hoses as the cutouts on the back of the tank are impractical too. I currently...

The biggest of the aquamantas is quite noisy but as they are moving so much water a certain amount of noise has to be expected. If you need extra hose for it don't trust what it says in the book. It uses an odd size hose that MA don't stock :eh: so if you need extra hose you may have an...

Personally, I'd rather an aquaball than a U series. Have a U3 and an aquaball (with 3 sponges and ceramic media) in my 90l. IMO Aquaball has/is Less maintenance: My U3 needs to be cleaned more frequently than the aquaball to maintain flow. Better flow: flowrate appears better from the...

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Enough to be smooth. Overstretched them and you may find that the cable tie won't hold them

I had to do something similar in my first shrimp tank. Put the material over the outside of the filter and hold it in place with a cable tie. If you put it around the sponge the shrimplets will still get into the filter, they see the sponges as an easy source of food but as they are so tiny...

Hi. Are any of you running an Aquamanta 600 filter? Any good? Looks like I'm going to have to add another filter to my tank but haven't got the cash for Eheim or Fluval. What size hoses do these things have? Could I fit it onto my existing fluval spraybar? Is it possible to fit an...

Thanks Simon.. I don't want to remove the second spraybar, just wanted to make sure that I was right that it would be wrong to attach both filters to the top one. DH thinks the spraybars are ugly, they are but the top one will be completely hidden by the hood and the other will only just be...

Thanks. Just what I wanted to hear. Will show hubby your response and he will hopefully give up on his idea to remove the lower spraybar.

I have setup my tank with two x fluval 405 with spraybars on the back wall. The left filter has co2 fed into it's intake and has a triple bar just below the surface pointing to the front. The other filter has a double spraybar positioned an inch below the first. Would it be a bad idea to...

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Hi Colin Thanks for the info. I'd love to know the lengths if you don't so I know how much space I'd have to play with. Did think about a DIY spraybar but with two little helpers and a hubby who hates DIY it would never happen. Just trying to setup the standard 'quick fit' inlet and outlet...

I have not been able to look at the fluval spraybars at the LFS as they are special order items so have a couple of questions that google can't seem to answer. How big are they? Can I fit two sets into a 5' tank? Can the outlet hose be fitted to either end or is it's postion fixed? This is why...

Hi Steve Thanks for the advice. I'll do some reading when the kids are in bed then probably wait until the tank is setup to see how it does before looking at changing hoses etc. Thanks again Amanda p

Hi, Is it possible to fit an inline co2 diffuser to fluval ribbed hosing without leaks? The LFS advised me against a hydor inline heater as they said it wouldn't fit the hosing properly. Will I have the same problem with an inline diffusor? We've just had our hardwood floor replaced after a...