Recent content by Dlee13

Hello   I am going to be doing a fishless cycle on a 20g freshwater aquarium and I was looking at getting a Aqua One canister filter. The two things I was wondering is, does anyone know the difference between the Nautilus and Aquis filters and are they good and reliable? The specific one I'm...

Hey everyone! My U3 arrived in the mall today unexpectedly (Amazon have such great shipping) so I'm going to clean out my tank, buy the new gravel and will replace the carbon with wool when I'm ready to fill the tank! After I determine how much wool to put in, should I give the wool a wash in...

Ok thanks for the reply and that's great news, my old filter was an overhead and was pretty weak so I'm looking forward to using the U3! Did you leave the other foam/sponge pads and bio balls in?

I have a 20g all in one Blue Planet tank which was cycling hut then the filter died. Rather then get it replaced with the same poor model, I decided to get the Fluval U3 internal since canisters are out of my budget and there's no room for a HOB! The two things I was wondering are, can I keep...

So I am currently on day 26 of my fishless cycle and like many people, I am stalled for no apparent reason. By day 6 I was already experiencing a drop in Ammonia, my levels where dropping 1ppm over 24 hours and I had Nitrites showing up as well. This lasted for 3 days then suddenly just stopped...

Do you think me changing the filter media would have restated my cycle? It wasn't dropping and seemed stalled before I removed the carbon so should I assume that I am starting all over again?

Thanks for the welcome ^^ Yeah it might have been that, but for some reason after I opened my filter and all the excess water came out it has been working better and the film has completely gone away. The water didn't look to good either and Ammonia was still at 4ppm so I took your advice and...

Hey I'm 17 days into my very first fishless cycle and I have somehow got a protein film (well from that I can tell it is) and I was wondering how to get rid of it! I have already increased the power of my filter but it doesn't seem to be helping. The surface still moves quite a lot but the...