Whisper Power Filter Aquarium Troublshooting

2. A small water pump (less than 100 gallons per hour) and clear plastic tubing (1/2" inner dimension or 5/8" outer dimension).
Fish tank pumps are fine. The smallest ones work well for the typical size containers. Some shops supply suction cups with water pumps. Both the pump and tubing can be found at an aquarium, hardware, or garden supply store. To straighten the hose, boil it in

whisper power filter aquarium troublshooting

Dutch/Wet-Dry/Trickle Filtration: Next

During the late seventies, up through the 1980s and continuing with refinements, the modified sewage treatment technology was/has been/is a great leap forward in improving and maintaining better water quality. To a large degree, these units not only herald, but brought on the mini-reef revolution in aquarium keeping.

Such systems employ a wet and dry area above a separate sump to promote the activity of nitrifying microbes, outside of the disturbances of the main tank. The trickled outflow is well-ox

Coupled with plenty of water changing, adequate lighting and low stocking density

And at last, power heads are staggeringly unattractive and distracting in the display proper to many observers. Their only saving grace is that they are cheap and affordable, which allows newer aquarists in particular to "buy into" the hobby a very important and worthwhile distinction.

This article, however, is not likely to be directed at new aquarists. While the application of a water return manifold is simple enough to construct (and mere dollars worth of pla

whisper power filter aquarium troublshooting

Filtration, en toto, embodies all you can do to mimic or even best "natural conditions": low organics, high oxygen tension, ready concentrations of necessary minerals and foods; non-linear, chaotic and robust water movement. All at the lowest cost , maintenance and potential for breakdown. What will be the next big improvement in reef filtration? Maybe youll be the design/engineer, or dreamer who comes up with it.

Scratched Glass
Most of us have run into this problem at one time or another. Care to share your experience with scratched glass? "Does any one know how to fill some scratches....

Can this touch that?
Hye guys and gals, can a torch coral touch a pagoda cup with out hurting either? Where can I find what corals are safe to touch each other. Right now I have the colt and Pagoda cup, mushrooms, sinlara, brain, toadsto.