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5 minutes ago, Aubrey said:
Wouldn't the coarse sponge filter out finer particles as it begins to clog? I have both kinds. I use them more for water movement than for filtering anything. I also use them with HOBs. I will say that I'm part of the not really maintaining the sponge filter group. It's nice that it takes the coarse sponge takes a while to clog. I once did not service the coarse sponge filter for several months and when I did, I found 3 medium sized Rams Horn Snails in side of it. It was odd because I removed all the Rams Horns from that tank. I'm guessing when they were tiny baby snails that they could actually make their way through the sponge into the hollow part under the air stone. Their shells were all beat up like they had been tumbling around in there.
Yes, as a filter collects more debri, it traps finer particles, until it eventually clogs.
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For me it’s simple, almost no one runs into ammonia problems where their filters can’t handle it because of not enough bacteria. A well established tank won’t have bacteria problems because most bacteria is on substrate, decorations, glass etc.
How much bacteria the filter can hold is kind of irrelevant for most. However as you can see in this thread maintenance is a thing for everyone. Coarse sponges don’t clog easily meaning they can hold more debris. However a fine sponge can capture fine debris but clogs and is hard to get clean.
While the posters here are the more hardcore of the hobby, the average aquarist does nothing to their aquarium until there are problems. Often many months between noticing their water quality is going downward. A coarse sponge filter helps them much more than a fine would.
When I design products, I focus on the majority. No product will be the perfect fit for everyone. I would also say keep in mind the source of info, it can have a bias. I don’t pay people to sell my products, this if they say a fine filter is better they will get paid via amazon affiliate or other brand partnership. I’m not saying this went on here, but keep a perspective as a buyer. Even my bias is towards a product I profit from and designed. Understandably so, I think everyone can see I have something to gain from my sponge filter vs competitors. it is smart to get feedback from other buyers like this to get close to an unbiased set of information as possible.
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I totally get the low maintenance, Murphy's tank and my 800g, no soil of any kind, no root tabs, just normal inert coarse sand, sustains great growth on fish poop alone. I've done that a bunch with aquarium gravel tanks as well, as mulm builds you, you're making natural "soil" essentially.
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No worries, most rules are broken unintentionally 😉
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If they are eating well, I'd give em a few more days to put some bulk on. Then at some point run just the paracleanse to do some deworming. They would have gotten at least 1 treatment of that while at the shop. So it's unlikely there are many alive currently, but the second treatment after a couple weeks is recommended to get any that were only eggs when we treated.
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The plastic plant pots work as intake screens for overflows and such. I hadn't tried to think up anything for the plant bags yet. Soon the liners for plants will be shipping we designed them to be reusable, and when we run out of version 1, version 2 is AWESOME and will be used even more for frozen foods form the LFS, bringing fish home etc.
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Is there a reason you don't just do aquarium gravel The plants you have are easy to grow and would thrive and you wouldn't run into the problem of uprooting aquasoil when you want to trim and move plants like you are now with the dirt.
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This is interesting, can you view any left at the pet store to also see if they display this trait? I'm wondering if its a genetic thing. Viewing more from the group would confirm that.
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Welcome to the hobby. I'm always interested in hearing origin stories into the hobby. Feel free to ask your questions and soak up information 😉
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Posting competing companies is against the rules. The options we can recommend would be Aquahuna, Aquabid, and Ebay. Really just need to do a lot of background research on the company and look for reviews. We provide some insight into how Aquahuna runs, and I've done live streams about aquabid and how to look at feedback there.
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Today was meetings and a live stream, but construction moved forward. @Dorkula was there to oversee and take some pics today.
Got drywall up on the two new sets of walls being put in. She grabbed a picture of the new outside wood door. Also a picture of the "bar area" being removed making the new live stream room look huge!
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App developer released the update we asked for and now the "deleted" topics are gone from the unanswered topics.
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I tell her all the time I can't do it. I take everything personally and it takes a huge mental toll on me if I do the customer service cause each complaint I see as a failure in myself/the company. Candi somehow is able to keep at it every day for a long time, a skill I don't have and am envious of. She does a bang up job.
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Lets start with the basics, list water parameters and temp. Also that seems like a lot of meds and switching in the few days. Is there any active infection or we are just guessing different meds trying to help them not die?
Where did the fish come from/how long have you had them? Can you take a few more pictures of the fish so we can get a visual on them?
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You probably have quite a long time with that fish and with removing stress might be able to shrink the tumor a bit.
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The pic with the red eye is a silver angelfish. The pic with all the koi angels, show some of the variety. Koi just means it has red/orange, white and black on the fish.
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I'm not sure I see the benefit to flooding it? Typically people just create a "bog filter" like in a koi pond where the water is circulated to a tank and maybe it has 2 inches of water, and all the plants grow emersed in it. Algae won't grow in the air, so you can "rehab" anubias and such plants. All the new growth will be algae free but it can be hard to get algae off the old leaves even in the emersed state because it's humid enough for the algae to hold on.
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1 minute ago, MaxM said:
It's actually a silver angelfish. The orange color only started after I moved it to a new tank. Also, I believe (could be wrong) that the orange color on a Koi Angelfish is much darker. Is it common for the orange of a koi to only come in only after around 9 months?
It certainly can. The fish in the picture is a typical koi angel. Or the worst silver angel out there, with all the broken lines that should be solid. I'd place my money on it's just a koi angelfish. Which some of the genetics come from silver angelfish.
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All I can see from the pic is a koi angelfish which would be typically to have orange parts?
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Pictures would help. But color change from stress is very common.
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Looks like a good start, what light are you using?
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Just as an FYI, if you click the carrot for directions/specifications you can see things like recommended tank size and other tidbits for products.
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Your other solution is remove most of the males and replace with females. Also as the plants grow in things should get better as well.
Fine Sponge Filter vs Coarse Sponge Filter
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I'm not sure there is any science on it. For me personally it's 6 months from the last time I did a major change, that might be setting up the tank, changing a filter for a different one, swapping substrate, or adding fish/plants. Basically when all I've been doing is feeding and maintaining water quality for 6 months, the routine is set in and the tank now starts to show what its going to do long term.