Filter Maintainance

[Dieses Madchen]

Just when you think you have seen it all, something else happened to make you realize otherwise. I did some reaarranging in my planted community yesterday, added some new plants and what not, and the tank got rather cloudy, as usual. Well, it generally clear in a couple of hours. I got up this morning to and EXTREMELY cloudy tank. Well I thought to myself that its been a week since I cleaned the filter, maybe the pads need a good rinsing (its an HOB filter). Apparently a certain little guy was a step ahead of me because when I pulled the filter cartridge out, my bristlenose plec was sucking on it!! Still have no clue how she got in the filter....

 

[Xraymark]

Did you not know, filters are now coming with BN.

Only need changed once every two years

 

[Dieses Madchen]

Hadn't heard that yet Good to know!

 

[Dieses Madchen]

My bristlenoses spawned in my filter......any ideas on what to do?

 

[creeker]

Was doing weekly water change last night, and noticed my BN was missing. I'm looking around on the floor, thinking maybe he committed suicide. Finally found him inside the hang on back filter, when I went to rinse the pad. Guess he swam in against the outgoing flow.

 

[Mauigirl]

I have found ghost shrimp in my Hob on a particular tank multiple times.. Never a spawning fish.. Such cool pictures.

 

[Salam]

Love that story So, what are you going to do with the eggs then?

 

[Dieses Madchen]

Let em hatch.

 

[Salam]

Cool, but where? Are you leaving them in there?

 

[Dieses Madchen]

I was going to move em to a small tank, but I figured why? so yeah, there are still eggs in the filter. I moved daddy back to the main tank though as I don't want him living in the filter.

 

[FishBlast]

Adorable! X)
This makes me wonder if my Pinky swordie fry ever thought of going against the current of my pump and entered it, probably being stuck in there. But no way of looking inside the engine case... She wasn't inside the sponge though.

 

[Salam]

Awesome, great idea. Babies in the filter, how cool is that