I use mostly coarse filter materials and add snails. These critters love to eat the bigger pieces and the biofilm, just like earthworms they make the filter better. In such cichlid tanks it can work very well to add a plant filter: the outlet doesn't go directly into the tank, but instead it goes through what is basically a flooded plant pot. The roots clean the water more efficient than anything else in the world. Epipremum, Monstera, philodendron.... and many more can be used. I find filter floss too expensive because it is not washable and needs to be replaced too frequently. I enjoy my plants a lot ^^.
I love when you make the "almost vlog-style" videos like this where we're just running to the hardware store with you and stuff! With music that rocks!! I always agree with your music choices! I love Bob, but he's wrong about Disturbed. Lol! Thanks for doing such an awesome job! You and Lisa are great! 💙🐟💦
@@MikeV607 I would rather remove the particles and let the filter work more effectively - only using Clarity occasionally, as the long term solution is more mechanical filtration.
I have to say, you've got on of my favorite African Cichlid tanks on TH-cam. What would it take to get like a 15 minute video of just the tank? Something where the focus is truly the fish rather than fish keeping. Love your videos and your dedication to the hobby. Thanks for the content!
That's exactly what i have done two fx5 on my 125 and one is set up with all mechanical filtration. And yes it has made a huge difference on my tank water is crystal clear. John just one thing and I'm not criticizing you in any way but because the water looks so clean some people may get a little lazy on their water changes it must be stressed you must still do you're water changes one to two weeks depending on you're amout of bio load. Minerals must be replenished for the heath of you're fish. That part is for anyone who reads this not for you john. God bless.
Hey John I have the same situation, a 200g AC tank, water quality is excellent, but a little free floating tiny particulates. After watching your video I packed a new FX6 filter I had with different foam, coarse, medium and fine with fine floss at the end of the water flow. No media of any kind. It works very well, tank is very clear now. Thanks, good video.
Love your vids! One thing that would make your FX-6 more efficient, is to start your sponges coarse and finish with floss. The sponge filter at the intake prevents any matter from entering your canister, basically rendering your canister solely a biological filter. The first sponge should be coarse, and gradually as the water flows through the filter, the sponges get finer. Floss is the last media before the water returns to the tank. This would polish your water and be the most efficient use of the canister. imho Did I say I love your vids? Paul
Jon, Food for thought.... I have a Marineland Magnum Polishing Internal Canister filter. With a micron filter element and pre-loaded with about 6oz of diatomaceous earth, it creates incredibly crystal clear water after it runs for a couple of hours. Here and there I'll run it following water changes for an extra clean tank. Nothing beats a diatom filter and this filter is very economical.
I've done similar with my 4040-gal breeder, which contained four Parrot Cichlids: I connected a pair of Filstar/API canisters in tandem, filling the first one with multiple layers of sponges of increasing porosity and topped with two precut layers of floss. The second was filled with a layer of bio-media, and two layers of chemical media. (Carbon and zeolite) each unit was topped with the powerheads of the next larger unit of the same line, respectively. (XP2/XP3 & XP3/XP4) I also plumbed the system with braided transparent vinyl hose (Gotta love hardware stores that sell cut lengths of hose!😊) and used 5/8" garden hose couplings. And for ease of water changes, plumbed in a diverter valve after the final stage to act as a drain/fill point. All I do is connect a hose run to a drainage point and flip a few valves to drain it, then connect the hose to a freshwater source, power-down the pumps and flip a few valves again to add clean, temperature-matched water. I add whatever chemicals I employ to the tank as it fill, then flip all the valves once more the close-off system and detach the fill/drain hose and power-up the system again. I should mention that with this system I've used both a large sponge filter and a 400-gph pump--at separate times--at the head of it's intake, with reason for the latter being because the tank's water level was at the minimum height requirement for the system... and I was hearing the powerheads cavitate fairly frequently.
I have 2 FX6's on my 500L tank, they are full of media + pre-filters. I use smaller filters for polishing, I clean those out ~1-2 months; the fx6'w ~2 times a year. Tank is crystal clear.
I have a trickle filter on my 100 gallon discus tank, I use this for polishing the water with poly filter, I also use this for my chemical filtration seachem perigean and chemi-pure blue, so easy to remove if I need to medicate. My FX6 is solely full of seachem matrix and floss at the top! I’ve had some great results with chemi-pure for crystal clear water...
Hi Jon,Thanks for this important video. I had the same thing in my Cichlid aquarium. I done more water changes,brought new lights and used aqua clear. Nothing worked. My fish stores got me a large very large sponge filter,It works,Ugly looking,cant hide it.But Worked! So I am getting a pre owned canister filter,and only put sponges and floss in. Thanks this is be a unique and great information Video well done. Hope lisa is well and happy. Regards Phil (UK)
Great video as always!! I miss the old Vortex diatom filter. Used to use it as part of my maintenance routine. Polished the water crystal clear in a few hours. Also used it to treat ick as it filtered out parasites.
@@James_Hande I wanted to get one too. However I am reluctant to do so as I think the company may be out of business. This would make replacement parts hard to get. I remember the filter bag would only last me about a year.
The fish are gorgeous and that water looks crystal clear to me!!! Yeah, a few doggie hairs show up in my tanks sometimes! LOL YOU GUYS AND CORY ARE MY FAVS!!!!!!!!
I run 2 FX6's in series on my 125. The first FX6 is nothing but mechanical filtration from course to fine sponges, the outlet of the first FX6 then runs to the inlet side of the second FX6 and thats is nothing but bio and chemical filtration, then into the tank.
This episode was so helpful and entertaining in the process. Those fish are gorgeous! I actually am dealing with this same exact issue in my goldfish tank. In all honesty. I think a step up in filtration will help. Also would it be safe to do a 75% water change or would that be too much. I normally do 50% to help avoid removing too much of the beneficial bacteria.
I'm setting up my 150 gallon tank for cichlids this year. I have a 20 gallon that I just cleaned up that will have guppies. Do you suggest sand or gravel for tanks?
Nothing clears green water algae and bacterial blooms easily within just a few hours except Jungle Clear Water (potassium permanganate) or Tetra Cleaning Bacteria. By contrast, Poly-Fil, water clarifier liquids, water polisher pads, and UV sanitizers take DAYS to show any improvement at all.
I run two FX6s and a tidal 110 on my 120g african tank. I MUST have super clear water... lol. The tidal us for a water fall effect I set up and water polishing. 50micron pad, carbon, and purigen. The fx6 get maintenance every 2 months. The tidal as needed. You can run super fine sponge filters in your sump with a powerhead and it would be effective too.
Wait wait wait STOP!!! We can't go any further with our fishkeeping until we all know what that amazing song is in the video! It sounds like audioslave
Hey JOHN how's things ? I've done this for years and if you don't mind I'd like to share an add on idea I came up with and have used for years. I hard plumb mine with black pvc about 25mm tube not the thick stuff, on the intake where the tube gets to the edge of the cabinet instead of an elbow or running strait down I attach a corner T piece, looks like an elbow with a strait bit off the side at the bend, then I add a small bit of tube just enough to fit an inline tap with an elbow on the end facing up with a small piece of soft rubber tube about an inch or two excess, ok now here's why lol your thinking wtf, keep the tap off for normal use but when you wanna do maintenance on the filter or the tank I attach my gravel siphon vac hose to the rubber tube turn the tap on and vac it into the filter, if I want more suction I cover the intake with a squash ball. Everything you vac goes through the filter and back out. Works specially well if your about to clean your canister and sneak in a quick vac.
I had this issue and for weeks I couldnt figure it out and I came to the thought maybe more filtration and a 12 buck air sponge filter was the right answer
My tank got cloudy the second day we set it up. The tank was used and so was the filter as I had that thing since childhood and only got to use it again a few days ago when my sister got surprise goldfish. I will assume that it got foggy because there are 3 goldfish in there? Not sure how it happened that quickly though. Also they all died amd so did one of the guppies we just got. We assume its because of the temperature as we didn't add the heater inside thinking it was broken
Hey John cool video I will try what you did in this video in my 65gal, I have a video that will help you on the top Glass cover you have the same problem I did it turns green, and yucky looking I have a video to help you clear up the glass and make it look like new again, come by and take a look
What were you stuffing in the center? I've watched some other videos on how to get clear water, and I've seen poly-fil being used and that's what it kinda looked like. looks like it works pretty well on the other videos, but I wanted to get your opinion on it.
I made my 120gal a bucket filter with a mag drive pump and with a bunch of sponges and floss from the dollar store and my mbuna tank is always cristal clear !
I know this is an old video, but say I was in the exact situation as this where water changes didn't help me, but I have a 10 gal tank with a filter that came in a tank kit. Could I benefit from buying a more powerful filter (bigger hang on the back filter) to clear up the water? Also would their be any downsides to having maybe a filter that's a little too powerful for tank size?
Cns you do a video for betta fish tanks and water changes for tanks about 5-6.6 gallons? I jsut got mine & did everything i could but im one day my tank is now cloudy.
John I was wondering if you temp match when doing 50% water changes? I've noticed that the temperature in my tank drops as much as 8-10 degrees during the winter with 50% water changes. Also note that the fish seem fine despite this and I like to do water changes once a week. Would I be better off to do 25% twice per week? Temp matching for me is difficult as we run out of hot water before all my tanks are done. Seems like I remember you saying at one point you filled from the hose? Our water out of the spicket is around 60 degrees this time of year and I keep my tanks between 78-82. Thank you, hopefully you see this comment.
Matching the temperature would be best. If you can't (maybe one tank at a time) then smaller changes more frequent would be best. Try not to have too much of a temp swing in the tank as that's a good trigger for an ICH out break.
Love your videos, but it took about 5.5 minutes before you started getting to the point. This video (and others) could have been 5 minutes total allowing more time to watch many more of your other exceptionally educational videos.
In my 100 gallon tank I have 2 marineland 350's and a canister filter also. This is the only way the tank can support 40 African cichlids. They are all different sizes and the eat a lot of food as you can imagine
Love the videos! Dont like you eating McDonalds... I quit fast food 10 yrs ago and feel great! I thought i felt good before but after stopping the impulsive behavior that fast food accommodates... I feel great. Thanks again brother
Fluvals no doubt pump a lot of water, the problem is nitrates. Water being passed through so quickly doesn’t allow the denitrification process to happen. I still prefer Eheim classic series.
Hello! I love this tutorial. I'm planning to utilize another unused filter that I've got earlier. I have one question, how do you clean the sand? Do you regularly clean the whole tank? Remove everything, clean it manually, and then put it back together? Would you mind to give me some explanation, kind sir? Please :)
I'm not exactly sure how they do it but from what I've learned, you don't want to clean the decorations and sand completely. The more you clean or remove water, the more beneficial bacteria that's lost. A lot of beneficial bacteria is in the filter and on the decorations so 25% water change once a week, 50% water change every other week or occasionally a 75% water changes every every 1½-2 weeks is fine. It has worked for me at least, I know some aquariums may be different than others. But the overall thing is to avoid deep cleans unless you have something in the water you need to disinfect. Even that can cause issues. Idk I'm no expert 😂 just speaking from experience. Ik I'm two months late but I thought I'd try to answer your question.
@@cass4715 Thank you! I've also learned quite much lately and you're right, we don't need to remove the whole things and clean it. Water change is enough unless we have certain things happen just like what you said. I'm so happy with my tank now. Thank you 😊
"Excuse me, I need this table!"
*Gives you side eye and very slowly saunters off...😆❤️
The shopping trip shows we are all normal fish folks and what we go through. I watch for new and old ideas for the hobby. Thanks
I use mostly coarse filter materials and add snails. These critters love to eat the bigger pieces and the biofilm, just like earthworms they make the filter better. In such cichlid tanks it can work very well to add a plant filter: the outlet doesn't go directly into the tank, but instead it goes through what is basically a flooded plant pot. The roots clean the water more efficient than anything else in the world. Epipremum, Monstera, philodendron.... and many more can be used.
I find filter floss too expensive because it is not washable and needs to be replaced too frequently. I enjoy my plants a lot ^^.
plants are the only way otherwise you can keep buying filters lol
@@yossarian00 I haven't bought filter materials in years. It works just fine. Plastic doesn't degrade after all.
"Nobody loves us"
I'm dead!
I love when you make the "almost vlog-style" videos like this where we're just running to the hardware store with you and stuff! With music that rocks!! I always agree with your music choices! I love Bob, but he's wrong about Disturbed. Lol! Thanks for doing such an awesome job! You and Lisa are great! 💙🐟💦
Thanks for all your help...I'm new to the fish keeping world...now I hope to be able to Keep fishkeeping!!!
Occasionally using Seachem clarity could also help! That FX6 will do a great job
Noooo....water clarifiers work by binding small particles together so the filter can more easily trap them - these products are tough on fish gills.
@@MikeV607 I would rather remove the particles and let the filter work more effectively - only using Clarity occasionally, as the long term solution is more mechanical filtration.
I love the Arowana's casually lurking in the background!
I'm so excited to watch this! Hopefully I can get some tips for one of my tanks. Always has water clarity issues
Same here
that's the most colorful cichlid tank i have ever seen. good job!
I have to say, you've got on of my favorite African Cichlid tanks on TH-cam. What would it take to get like a 15 minute video of just the tank? Something where the focus is truly the fish rather than fish keeping. Love your videos and your dedication to the hobby. Thanks for the content!
Agreed! There are some beautiful fish that I’d like to know what they are called.
I love cat sightings!
That's exactly what i have done two fx5 on my 125 and one is set up with all mechanical filtration. And yes it has made a huge difference on my tank water is crystal clear. John just one thing and I'm not criticizing you in any way but because the water looks so clean some people may get a little lazy on their water changes it must be stressed you must still do you're water changes one to two weeks depending on you're amout of bio load. Minerals must be replenished for the heath of you're fish. That part is for anyone who reads this not for you john. God bless.
Hey John
I have the same situation, a 200g AC tank, water quality is excellent, but a little free floating tiny particulates. After watching your video I packed a new FX6 filter I had with different foam, coarse, medium and fine with fine floss at the end of the water flow. No media of any kind. It works very well, tank is very clear now.
Thanks, good video.
Most of that foam IS media, it harbors benificial bacteria. Better than any other media out there except flidized K1. :)
And also, all that extra bacteria, that's what's creating cristal clear water, not filter flossing.
Love your vids!
One thing that would make your FX-6 more efficient, is to start your sponges coarse and finish with floss. The sponge filter at the intake prevents any matter from entering your canister, basically rendering your canister solely a biological filter. The first sponge should be coarse, and gradually as the water flows through the filter, the sponges get finer. Floss is the last media before the water returns to the tank. This would polish your water and be the most efficient use of the canister.
imho
Did I say I love your vids?
Paul
Solid advice 👌
As he said he already had heavy filtration.
Jon, Food for thought....
I have a Marineland Magnum Polishing Internal Canister filter. With a micron filter element and pre-loaded with about 6oz of diatomaceous earth, it creates incredibly crystal clear water after it runs for a couple of hours. Here and there I'll run it following water changes for an extra clean tank. Nothing beats a diatom filter and this filter is very economical.
I've done similar with my 4040-gal breeder, which contained four Parrot Cichlids: I connected a pair of Filstar/API canisters in tandem, filling the first one with multiple layers of sponges of increasing porosity and topped with two precut layers of floss. The second was filled with a layer of bio-media, and two layers of chemical media. (Carbon and zeolite) each unit was topped with the powerheads of the next larger unit of the same line, respectively. (XP2/XP3 & XP3/XP4)
I also plumbed the system with braided transparent vinyl hose (Gotta love hardware stores that sell cut lengths of hose!😊) and used 5/8" garden hose couplings. And for ease of water changes, plumbed in a diverter valve after the final stage to act as a drain/fill point. All I do is connect a hose run to a drainage point and flip a few valves to drain it, then connect the hose to a freshwater source, power-down the pumps and flip a few valves again to add clean, temperature-matched water.
I add whatever chemicals I employ to the tank as it fill, then flip all the valves once more the close-off system and detach the fill/drain hose and power-up the system again. I should mention that with this system I've used both a large sponge filter and a 400-gph pump--at separate times--at the head of it's intake, with reason for the latter being because the tank's water level was at the minimum height requirement for the system... and I was hearing the powerheads cavitate fairly frequently.
I have 2 FX6's on my 500L tank, they are full of media + pre-filters. I use smaller filters for polishing, I clean those out ~1-2 months; the fx6'w ~2 times a year.
Tank is crystal clear.
Guys I am new to this chanel and I look at all the comments and all I see is ridicule and mean comments but ya there some nice but mostly mean
I have a trickle filter on my 100 gallon discus tank, I use this for polishing the water with poly filter, I also use this for my chemical filtration seachem perigean and chemi-pure blue, so easy to remove if I need to medicate. My FX6 is solely full of seachem matrix and floss at the top! I’ve had some great results with chemi-pure for crystal clear water...
Hi Jon,Thanks for this important video.
I had the same thing in my Cichlid aquarium.
I done more water changes,brought new lights and used aqua clear.
Nothing worked.
My fish stores got me a large very large sponge filter,It works,Ugly looking,cant hide it.But Worked!
So I am getting a pre owned canister filter,and only put sponges and floss in.
Thanks this is be a unique and great information Video well done.
Hope lisa is well and happy.
Regards
Phil (UK)
It's so cool that you show people how to do this themselves. Big fan.
Great video as always!! I miss the old Vortex diatom filter. Used to use it as part of my maintenance routine. Polished the water crystal clear in a few hours. Also used it to treat ick as it filtered out parasites.
I loved mine too. Planning on getting another one since my old one got lost in moving.
@@James_Hande I wanted to get one too. However I am reluctant to do so as I think the company may be out of business. This would make replacement parts hard to get. I remember the filter bag would only last me about a year.
@@Frank_and_his_Tanks www.diatomfilter.com/default.htm
The fish are gorgeous and that water looks crystal clear to me!!! Yeah, a few doggie hairs show up in my tanks sometimes! LOL YOU GUYS AND CORY ARE MY FAVS!!!!!!!!
That montage music was something else my dude haha daddy daughter dance hahaha much love brother!!!
2:50 your fish are gorgeous 😍
I love you mate, you and your lass have taught me loads of stuff I didn't know, keep up the good work, lots of Love from the UK.
I run 2 FX6's in series on my 125. The first FX6 is nothing but mechanical filtration from course to fine sponges, the outlet of the first FX6 then runs to the inlet side of the second FX6 and thats is nothing but bio and chemical filtration, then into the tank.
Now im mad at myself for wondering what to do with a spare filter i have. Thanks for the tip
8:59 Yes! Straight away thought it was Chris Cornell.
Would love to see you solve it on another tank with the use of powerheads and extra flow. Great video, thanks :)
aquaclear 110 on a 55gal is great thought about getting another to as you put it polish the water.
I can count on learning new things and reinforcing older ideas from you. Thanks so much for that. BTW....I love "us" and the 🐈!
This episode was so helpful and entertaining in the process. Those fish are gorgeous! I actually am dealing with this same exact issue in my goldfish tank. In all honesty. I think a step up in filtration will help. Also would it be safe to do a 75% water change or would that be too much. I normally do 50% to help avoid removing too much of the beneficial bacteria.
I have 2 bubblers and an intake filter with carbon infused filters backed with pillow stuffing. works great!
I'm gonna just add a sponge filter, I have plenty of pump pressure to do it, I'll post the results
Well please do, its been a year now brother
@@tjprosper7704 It's been 3 years now, I think he gave up!
I'm setting up my 150 gallon tank for cichlids this year. I have a 20 gallon that I just cleaned up that will have guppies. Do you suggest sand or gravel for tanks?
I use a sponge pre-filter on my HW 304-B in a 90 gal. It works great, also significantly reduces the amount of maintenance needed on the filter. 👍
Nothing clears green water algae and bacterial blooms easily within just a few hours except Jungle Clear Water (potassium permanganate) or Tetra Cleaning Bacteria. By contrast, Poly-Fil, water clarifier liquids, water polisher pads, and UV sanitizers take DAYS to show any improvement at all.
Great video! But wouldn't you get the same result if you just added filter floss to your existing canister?
He doesn't have a canister on that tank, if you listen, he has a sump on it. Completely different filter system than a canister.
That red OB peacock is BEAUTIFUL ❤
YEs, agree
That FX6 is a BEAST!!
I added a little Seachem Purigen to my filter and my water is Crystal clear. I works Great!
I run two FX6s and a tidal 110 on my 120g african tank. I MUST have super clear water... lol. The tidal us for a water fall effect I set up and water polishing. 50micron pad, carbon, and purigen. The fx6 get maintenance
every 2 months. The tidal as needed. You can run super fine sponge filters in your sump with a powerhead and it would be effective too.
Wait wait wait STOP!!! We can't go any further with our fishkeeping until we all know what that amazing song is in the video! It sounds like audioslave
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Hey JOHN how's things ? I've done this for years and if you don't mind I'd like to share an add on idea I came up with and have used for years. I hard plumb mine with black pvc about 25mm tube not the thick stuff, on the intake where the tube gets to the edge of the cabinet instead of an elbow or running strait down I attach a corner T piece, looks like an elbow with a strait bit off the side at the bend, then I add a small bit of tube just enough to fit an inline tap with an elbow on the end facing up with a small piece of soft rubber tube about an inch or two excess, ok now here's why lol your thinking wtf, keep the tap off for normal use but when you wanna do maintenance on the filter or the tank I attach my gravel siphon vac hose to the rubber tube turn the tap on and vac it into the filter, if I want more suction I cover the intake with a squash ball. Everything you vac goes through the filter and back out. Works specially well if your about to clean your canister and sneak in a quick vac.
question, just set up a 75 and will keep only 5 or 6 fish, 2 oscars, 2 bala, 1 cat and 1 algae sucker. Still need 50% water change weekly?
I have never seen such a beautiful fish like that red african
Beautiful, your kitty is such a character!❤❤💞👍🏼
I built a DIY overhead sump filter system my fish tanks. It's easy to do change filter floss every one or two week. 🐠🐠🐠
I added some alge fix from api cleared it right up plus next day added accuclear haven’t had a problem since.
Your tanks always look nice
Excellent use of an old filter 🤓
Totally sounds like Soudgarden, one of my absolute favorites
I had this issue and for weeks I couldnt figure it out and I came to the thought maybe more filtration and a 12 buck air sponge filter was the right answer
I’m headed to pet store now for a sponge filter setup for my lil 5 gal guppy tank I’m a beginner I will move them to a 10 gal but wanna learn first
Wow that's good for you but how many of us have a fx6 just sat around doing nothing lol not me but good video and beautiful cichlids awesome colors..
My tank got cloudy the second day we set it up. The tank was used and so was the filter as I had that thing since childhood and only got to use it again a few days ago when my sister got surprise goldfish. I will assume that it got foggy because there are 3 goldfish in there? Not sure how it happened that quickly though. Also they all died amd so did one of the guppies we just got. We assume its because of the temperature as we didn't add the heater inside thinking it was broken
That tank looks clear. It’s the larger tank with the as in Asian ariwanna that looks cloudy. At least it does on TH-cam.
Very much Sound Garden-ish! ❤
Is there a video on the back ground used inside that tank?
Hey John cool video I will try what you did in this video in my 65gal, I have a video that will help you on the top Glass cover you have the same problem I did it turns green, and yucky looking I have a video to help you clear up the glass and make it look like new again, come by and take a look
Don't those stainless steel hose clamp screws tend to rust. I think using the plastic one will be a safer option
That OB is goals omg 😍
I started with a 5 gal how many times a week should I do water change??
All you need is. Two Tidal 110s an 2 large sponge filters. I guarantee it will be clean. 😁
Gorgeous Fish! Thank you!
What were you stuffing in the center? I've watched some other videos on how to get clear water, and I've seen poly-fil being used and that's what it kinda looked like. looks like it works pretty well on the other videos, but I wanted to get your opinion on it.
Some bad ass looking Fish 👍🏻
I made my 120gal a bucket filter with a mag drive pump and with a bunch of sponges and floss from the dollar store and my mbuna tank is always cristal clear !
I have a five gallon tank and need a new filter any suggestions
The song when you put together. Fast motion. Was that Kings X
I know this is an old video, but say I was in the exact situation as this where water changes didn't help me, but I have a 10 gal tank with a filter that came in a tank kit. Could I benefit from buying a more powerful filter (bigger hang on the back filter) to clear up the water? Also would their be any downsides to having maybe a filter that's a little too powerful for tank size?
he should have more subs
John, what kind of mechanical filtration do u have in that sump?
Totally sounded like sound garden!
LOL... How am I going to clean my tank? I'm going to install a pool pump full of polyfill! I am pretty sure this could work with my 30 gallon...
I put a fluval u4 filled with floss in my 100g discus tank (it was lonely in the fish box) it helps with polishing
Hi I have a 29 gallons tank and a fluval 40-70 and I have this problem. What can I do?
I just set mine up two days ago for guppies did PH at 7.0 and it was clear for two days now it’s cloudy??
Cns you do a video for betta fish tanks and water changes for tanks about 5-6.6 gallons? I jsut got mine & did everything i could but im one day my tank is now cloudy.
So what you're saying is, that at the first sign of a problem we should rush out and buy a huge filter?
John I was wondering if you temp match when doing 50% water changes? I've noticed that the temperature in my tank drops as much as 8-10 degrees during the winter with 50% water changes. Also note that the fish seem fine despite this and I like to do water changes once a week. Would I be better off to do 25% twice per week? Temp matching for me is difficult as we run out of hot water before all my tanks are done. Seems like I remember you saying at one point you filled from the hose? Our water out of the spicket is around 60 degrees this time of year and I keep my tanks between 78-82. Thank you, hopefully you see this comment.
Matching the temperature would be best. If you can't (maybe one tank at a time) then smaller changes more frequent would be best. Try not to have too much of a temp swing in the tank as that's a good trigger for an ICH out break.
Love your videos, but it took about 5.5 minutes before you started getting to the point. This video (and others) could have been 5 minutes total allowing more time to watch many more of your other exceptionally educational videos.
Scott Nicholls well he did say he was gonna run errands in the beginning..soo..
This is great, thanks!!!
RIP Chris Cornell
In my 100 gallon tank I have 2 marineland 350's and a canister filter also. This is the only way the tank can support 40 African cichlids. They are all different sizes and the eat a lot of food as you can imagine
I love you and your channel!
Would a UV light also do the same thing? Can you maybe talk about the difference for using this set up compared to needing a UV light? Thanks
Looks like you need to upgrade your mechanical part of your filtration system
get a top filter full with synthetic cotton. trust me, your water will be crystal clear. it is the best yet cheapest solution. :)
Love the videos! Dont like you eating McDonalds... I quit fast food 10 yrs ago and feel great! I thought i felt good before but after stopping the impulsive behavior that fast food accommodates... I feel great. Thanks again brother
So what water pumps do you use?
Can never have to much filtration...
2:53 looks like the beginning of HITH. What food do you use?
Just saw the add for extreme food. I know it’s popular but the ingredients list is questionable.
Adding some vitality would help 🤗
Adding polyfill pads underneath your course sponge in the sump would have done the same thing without hours of work 😅
Fluvals no doubt pump a lot of water, the problem is nitrates. Water being passed through so quickly doesn’t allow the denitrification process to happen. I still prefer Eheim classic series.
5:14 Made my day!
Why didn't you use black pc hard/rigid tubing I have mine running along the back with inline taps.
Love the video.. so jelly I see my old fish.. Happlichromis
Oh no you couldn't have cleaned that filter in my kitchen! Mad wife I would be....I love the video, fish are amazing and the cat is cute
Hello! I love this tutorial. I'm planning to utilize another unused filter that I've got earlier. I have one question, how do you clean the sand? Do you regularly clean the whole tank? Remove everything, clean it manually, and then put it back together? Would you mind to give me some explanation, kind sir? Please :)
I'm not exactly sure how they do it but from what I've learned, you don't want to clean the decorations and sand completely. The more you clean or remove water, the more beneficial bacteria that's lost. A lot of beneficial bacteria is in the filter and on the decorations so 25% water change once a week, 50% water change every other week or occasionally a 75% water changes every every 1½-2 weeks is fine. It has worked for me at least, I know some aquariums may be different than others. But the overall thing is to avoid deep cleans unless you have something in the water you need to disinfect. Even that can cause issues. Idk I'm no expert 😂 just speaking from experience. Ik I'm two months late but I thought I'd try to answer your question.
@@cass4715 Thank you! I've also learned quite much lately and you're right, we don't need to remove the whole things and clean it. Water change is enough unless we have certain things happen just like what you said. I'm so happy with my tank now. Thank you 😊
Interesting and informative.
I find alot of dirty water problems (even with perfect levels) is that theres to much dissolved protien in the water...do u ever get these issues?
My boyfriend does ✌🏼