Recent content by billm90

I tried something different. I vacuumed up everything I could with a siphon monday night. It ended up being a 10 gallon water change. I only did this once. I sandwiched the dead riccia between 2 of those needle point craft circle things with the holes in it, and sunk it to the bottom held...

I have tried putting DIY co2 through the xp3 diffuse venturi thing. It does shoot out bubbles. but they are at the surface. You could try that adapter piece to put the neck of the exit down another 4" if youreally want to do it that way. I run the Co2 line into the intake of the filter pipe...

I have a 29 gallon planted tank. I use this tank to get things going. flourite and eco-complete gravel. DIY co2, add in flourish, and root tabs. everything I put in this tank takes off growing. I have 2.3 watts of light per gallon. I have a HOB filter, and a power head shooting the CO2 I...

I went out over the weekend and picked up a rena xp3 canistor filter (rated for 175 gallon tank) added on 2 HOB 20-40 gallon filters and now my tank has never looked so clear ever. So far no waste on the bottom which has me baffled. I can look down the side of the tank and see the wall...

I have 4 red tailed barbs, they are all about 8 to 9 inches long. 6 cat fish (sharks), all about 4-5 inches 1 algae eater placostomis whatever, about 9-10 inches long. 3 small barbs, about 2.5" 1 bala shark about 4" Correct the power heads are shooting away from each other. towards the front...

I'm new here. I need some better filtering ideas, or some advise/ideas. I have a 100 gallon tank with 2 bulk heads at the back, drilled about 2" from the top of the tank. Both of these overflow to a sump and through lot of filter media and pumped back up to the main tank. 550 gallon per hour...

yeah I did something similar. I tried the foam, and it was fun to play with, but I could not get what I wanted out of it. I picked up a 18" tall by maybe 2 feet long piece of plexi. sanded the plexi rough I glued a tupperware box to it. drilled 2 holes and shoved 2 power heads in it shooting...

2 litter bottle. seal an airline connector to the lid of some sort. I epoxied in an airline connector tube I add 2 cups of sugar and about 1 TBS of yeast. I fill it with water and in a day or so it starts pumping out c02. I ran my airline into my powerheads intake. this chops the bubbles up...

I had one making a bit of noise. clean out anything that maybe in it. I dont know what kind you are dealing with, but I could move the intake tube and inlet to the impeller a bit and the tone would change. Another thing I did on all my filters, I put a folded piece of paper towel over the edge...