pig_raffles

After just over a month of having the filter setup below in my AquaClear HoB and things are going pretty well. The tank water is looking really good and it's pretty low maintenance. Thanks again for all the helpful advice!

Thanks for all the replies. I think I will try the easiest option first and see how that goes. Keep the coarse pre-filter, but put back the AquaClear sponge and have a polishing pad on top of that.

Hi everyone, I having some issues with my 20 gallon aquarium filtration and would appreciate some advice. I currently have an AquaClear 30 HOB filter on my tank. Following some of the advice videos from Aquarium Co-op, I recently switched out the AquaClear mechanical foam filter and installed a rectangle of the Co-op coarse sponge pad. I also installed a medium pre-filter sponge. Whilst it was not clogging, the filter was now not removing fine particulates, so the water was not particularly clear. To combat this I added a layer of polishing filter pad. So, my HOB filter case has a single layer of the coarse sponge pad at the base, then a single layer of the polishing filter pad, then a bag of bio-rings. However, my tank water is still pretty cloudy. Any idea as to how I could improve this or what I am doing wrong? I do a 50% water exchange every week. Thanks in advance, Alan