hi i have been looking around and i am sure this question has been asked before so i am sorry if it has, what is the best brand internal pump i can get for 80ltr size tank, someone briefly mentioned a pump called the ehime bio? what would you suggest to me here?
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That sounds like the Eheim Biopower filter.
Do you mean a filter (which has a pump on top to pull the water through it) or a separate pump just to move water round the tank?
If you do mean a filter, the Eheim Biopower 160 would be the size for your tank. I have the larger version in my 180 litre tank and i like this brand of filter. The 160 comes with 2 sponges and a basket of substrat pro, a sintered glass medium which is Eheim's biomedium.
Do you mean a filter (which has a pump on top to pull the water through it) or a separate pump just to move water round the tank?
If you do mean a filter, the Eheim Biopower 160 would be the size for your tank. I have the larger version in my 180 litre tank and i like this brand of filter. The 160 comes with 2 sponges and a basket of substrat pro, a sintered glass medium which is Eheim's biomedium.
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Filters have media inside them. These do two things, mainly - they catch the bits passing through them (mechanical media) and they are home to the filter bacteria which 'eat' the ammonia made by the fish and the nitrite the first bacteria make from this ammonia. The media where the bacteria live are called bio-media. Sponges are both mechanical and biomedia, they catch bits and the bacteria live in them. Other media are just home to the bacteria. The most common ones that are like this are ceramic media, often in the shape of little tubes. But Eheim are different, their biomedia is called substrat pro and rather than cermaic tubes it is little balls of a rough kind of glass. But it does the same thing, it is a good home for the bacteria.
Since you are new to fishkeeping, do you know about fishless cycling yet? If you don't, I suggest you read this http://www.fishforums.net/threads/cycling-your-new-fresh-water-tank-read-this-first.421488/ which explains what it is. Shops rarely tell you about this.
Filters have media inside them. These do two things, mainly - they catch the bits passing through them (mechanical media) and they are home to the filter bacteria which 'eat' the ammonia made by the fish and the nitrite the first bacteria make from this ammonia. The media where the bacteria live are called bio-media. Sponges are both mechanical and biomedia, they catch bits and the bacteria live in them. Other media are just home to the bacteria. The most common ones that are like this are ceramic media, often in the shape of little tubes. But Eheim are different, their biomedia is called substrat pro and rather than cermaic tubes it is little balls of a rough kind of glass. But it does the same thing, it is a good home for the bacteria.
Since you are new to fishkeeping, do you know about fishless cycling yet? If you don't, I suggest you read this http://www.fishforums.net/threads/cycling-your-new-fresh-water-tank-read-this-first.421488/ which explains what it is. Shops rarely tell you about this.
my father has kept fish for 40 years although his tank is great his pump and background and things are out of date. so the reason I am on here is to get more up to date information. I have an idea of what you mean about fish cycling. but what we are going to do is take water from my father's tank. will that speed things up for me? he seems to think so. he asked me to ask you do you need to change the substrat pro or can you wash it?
I'm afraid using water from your father's tank will do nothing to help cycle your tank. The bacteria we want to grow live tightly bound to surfaces not flaoting in the water. But media from your father's filter would do the job nicely.
If your father has been keeping fish for 40 years, has he kept up with advances in our knowledge? When he started, there was no such thing as fishless cycling. Back then you set up the tank and bought some fish and hoped they survived. We now call that fish-in cycling, which is no longer recommended. Instead we now grow all the bacteria the tank needs before we get any fish, and we do this by adding ammonia from a bottle to simulate fish waste so the bacteria grow. The link I gave you explains what I mean about this type of cycling, and it is possible your father won't know about it.
If you father would give you some of his media - and he can lose up a thrid without harming his fish - and you put that in your filter, it would give the cylce a good kick start, and considerably shorten the process.
Do you intend having live plants in your tank? These also help speed up the cycle.
The Eheim biopower filter contains sponges and this stuff called substrat pro. The sponges are cleaned by squeezing them in old tank water that you take out during a weekly water change, and substrat pro is washed by swooshing it round in old tank water. Because it is small balls, if you empty it out it takes ages to collect all the bits again so I leave the balls in the basket and swoosh the whole thing, carefully so no balls escape.
Another filter I have used is the Eheim Aquaball. This looks like the biopower filter but it contains just sponges. It is a good filter for smaller tanks - another one to think about for your tank. Also look at the Fluval U series filters.
If your father has been keeping fish for 40 years, has he kept up with advances in our knowledge? When he started, there was no such thing as fishless cycling. Back then you set up the tank and bought some fish and hoped they survived. We now call that fish-in cycling, which is no longer recommended. Instead we now grow all the bacteria the tank needs before we get any fish, and we do this by adding ammonia from a bottle to simulate fish waste so the bacteria grow. The link I gave you explains what I mean about this type of cycling, and it is possible your father won't know about it.
If you father would give you some of his media - and he can lose up a thrid without harming his fish - and you put that in your filter, it would give the cylce a good kick start, and considerably shorten the process.
Do you intend having live plants in your tank? These also help speed up the cycle.
The Eheim biopower filter contains sponges and this stuff called substrat pro. The sponges are cleaned by squeezing them in old tank water that you take out during a weekly water change, and substrat pro is washed by swooshing it round in old tank water. Because it is small balls, if you empty it out it takes ages to collect all the bits again so I leave the balls in the basket and swoosh the whole thing, carefully so no balls escape.
Another filter I have used is the Eheim Aquaball. This looks like the biopower filter but it contains just sponges. It is a good filter for smaller tanks - another one to think about for your tank. Also look at the Fluval U series filters.
Artificial plants are fine, it's just that real ones use ammonia as fertiliser and can help speed the cycle.
One thing I learned over the years is that silk plants look more natural than plastic ones. I am a fairly recent convert to live plants, I used artificial ones for years
One thing I learned over the years is that silk plants look more natural than plastic ones. I am a fairly recent convert to live plants, I used artificial ones for years
Gilbenjo32
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Very god idea to put artificial plants. I set up already.
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