dan12boy

The stand only has 4 points of contact with the ground. Is there a specific thickness the shims would need to be? This is the stand

Hey guys, I got a stand for my 20 high but since it’s on carpet it wobbles a little bit and that doesn’t sit right with me. I want to know what I can do to fix it as quick as possible. Please ahh knowledge will be helpful.

Have you had any problems with it being wobbly? I set mine up and put the tank on it and it’s a little shakey which worries me.

Hey guys, my family's gonna be moving and I'm going to be getting a room so my tanks won't have to be in the basement anymore. It's a pretty small room though so I would like to utilize space as much as possible. The tanks coming into the room with me would be a 20 long and a 20 tall. I would like to find a good stand for both tanks, one on the top and one on the bottom. Any suggestions or advice would be deeply appreciated.

Thank you! I have so I’m just waiting for a response, either for a replacement or refund. For the meantime I have an ACO sponge filter working.

I did what you said but it’s still making the noise and it’s really annoying. I think I’m genuinely over ever using canister filters, too much mechanics.

That’s so weird because in the fluval video for some reason they said to make sure it’s above water to prime and then back under when you turn it on. I’ll go try your suggestion and let you know if it works, thank you.

Hey everyone, I did maintenance on my fluval 407 canister filter this past Saturday and when I put it back together and plugged it in, there was a rattling noise being made that was really loud and the flow from the outlet was just stuttering. I then unplugged it and tried to prime it again thinking that might be the issue but it kept making the noise. I did it yet again and this time it stopped making the noise or so I thought. Came home from work the next day to it making noise and since I had work the next morning I didn’t have time to try fixing it so I just unplugged it. On Monday night after work I plugged it in again and still same noise so unplugged it. Today I didn’t have work so I tried figuring out the problem but to no avail. I’ve only had this filter for 7 months now and about 3 months ago I had to order a new impeller and ceramic shaft since the previous one got broken during maintenance. So I don’t see why it’s making the rattling noise. Today I thought I’d gotten it to work since for about 3 minutes it was working perfectly and silently but then the noise began. I’m at a loss since I spent a lot of money on the filter and right now I don’t have the funds to buy another one so I just contacted their support to try to get a refund and just get a hob filter. Any help or advice on how to fix it will be really appreciated.

Okay thank you!

That’s salvinia minima! Didn’t know they went by that name. Do you dose anything in that tank?

Oh I’ve seen that in Irene’s video before that’s really smart. Okay I think I’m going to give frogbit and the red root floaters a shot at the same time and see if any work for me. I’ll definitely create a corral and make sure the water level lets the hob drop a bit. Thank you for the advice!! Sadly lost a clown killi yesterday when doing a big change in the tank. Have no idea where it is but can guess it jumped out as I was taking out plants.

Sorry but what’s a coral?

I thought it’d be the other way around, doesn’t dropping it make the water coming out push the plants under the water and creating a mess? Do you mean easy green?

What did the hobs do to those plants that it doesn’t do to the salvinia? Do you have a good light for the red root floaters or do you dose some ferts? I tried red root floaters in the past but they didn’t work out for me especially since I had a very cheap led light that came with the tank.

I want floaters for my clown killis since I know they love that and I just moved my lily to my other tank so the only things on the surface for cover are my Val’s leaves. I don’t know what floaters to get though. I was thinking frog bit since they seem big enough to not get pushed into the water column by my hob filter. But I know their roots get really long and don’t know if it’ll be too long for my 20 tall. So either duckweed, frogbit, salvinia or maybe red root floaters even though I don’t have a high light type of light.