Hey everyone,
im in desperate need of someones advice, as every local petshop has different advice.
Ill just give you a quick run down to my problem and how the issue was raised,
Ive always wanted to keep fish and the moment i moved out of home i went out and got a tank, I got the juwel rekord 80, it was a med size tank n everything was there to get me started. the reason i purchased this tank was my mate ran a fish place around where i used to live and he highly recomened theses tanks as they were among the best quality. Yes i agree the tanks are extremly nice, but i have had a shocking run with mine. I have had cloudy water i have been unable to get rid of, ammonia levels hiting 10ppm, i had used all the right chemicals and the tank just got worse and worse after 6 weeks i managed to have the tank clean for a week. there was lots of cloudyness and when the tank finally did clear up there was soo much gunk that wasnt getting picked up. i tried soo much different advice, chemicals, water changes, everything. I had a guy from the local shop come and have a look in my tank, he pulled out the juwel internal filter and discovered it only did 220l/h, now correct me if im wrong but the bare minimum for circulation is the tank should be circulation 4 times per hour, the current pump is barely doing 3 so the problem was found. the tank has been running for 7 weeks now, and when the water was clear and the levels were right i put 10 neons in there, if i knew what was to come i wouldnt have, but they are still ok now, i got a small 400l/h internal just to get the water ok for the neons until i could get an external. Now here comes the question. Once this tank is established im hoping to run a discus set up with 3 discus and 15 neons so i dont want the water two rough as the discus dnt like that yeh...?and after spending soo much on the setup and chemicals i didnt wana spend heaps on the etxernal. I also wanted to ru n a uv sterilizer as i was running discus they are exoensive and dont want them to end up dieing from some disease/bacteria, so it came down to two options
1. a sera 1300l/h 4stage external filled with quartz noodles, but its 2nd hand from a shop so i dont know its history, but my mate in the store can do it for AU$70 no warranty. and there are no pipes for it, he said he will jus look around to find me some. then i will have to go out n buy the UV sterilizer
2. OR a BOYU 750l/h external brand new, all pipes and an inbuilt 5w UV sterilizer AU$120
ok my questions are, does anyone run any of those pumps, and are they good/bad had problems with them?which would be the better for my tank (80L, discus setup)
what one would you pick for my situation
sorry about there being soo much text, any help would be nice
thanks
trent
im in desperate need of someones advice, as every local petshop has different advice.
Ill just give you a quick run down to my problem and how the issue was raised,
Ive always wanted to keep fish and the moment i moved out of home i went out and got a tank, I got the juwel rekord 80, it was a med size tank n everything was there to get me started. the reason i purchased this tank was my mate ran a fish place around where i used to live and he highly recomened theses tanks as they were among the best quality. Yes i agree the tanks are extremly nice, but i have had a shocking run with mine. I have had cloudy water i have been unable to get rid of, ammonia levels hiting 10ppm, i had used all the right chemicals and the tank just got worse and worse after 6 weeks i managed to have the tank clean for a week. there was lots of cloudyness and when the tank finally did clear up there was soo much gunk that wasnt getting picked up. i tried soo much different advice, chemicals, water changes, everything. I had a guy from the local shop come and have a look in my tank, he pulled out the juwel internal filter and discovered it only did 220l/h, now correct me if im wrong but the bare minimum for circulation is the tank should be circulation 4 times per hour, the current pump is barely doing 3 so the problem was found. the tank has been running for 7 weeks now, and when the water was clear and the levels were right i put 10 neons in there, if i knew what was to come i wouldnt have, but they are still ok now, i got a small 400l/h internal just to get the water ok for the neons until i could get an external. Now here comes the question. Once this tank is established im hoping to run a discus set up with 3 discus and 15 neons so i dont want the water two rough as the discus dnt like that yeh...?and after spending soo much on the setup and chemicals i didnt wana spend heaps on the etxernal. I also wanted to ru n a uv sterilizer as i was running discus they are exoensive and dont want them to end up dieing from some disease/bacteria, so it came down to two options
1. a sera 1300l/h 4stage external filled with quartz noodles, but its 2nd hand from a shop so i dont know its history, but my mate in the store can do it for AU$70 no warranty. and there are no pipes for it, he said he will jus look around to find me some. then i will have to go out n buy the UV sterilizer
2. OR a BOYU 750l/h external brand new, all pipes and an inbuilt 5w UV sterilizer AU$120
ok my questions are, does anyone run any of those pumps, and are they good/bad had problems with them?which would be the better for my tank (80L, discus setup)
what one would you pick for my situation
sorry about there being soo much text, any help would be nice
thanks
trent
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