I have a 30 Gal tank with a Whisper Ex 45 filter (designed to take up to 45 gal) My tank is stocked with:
3 Honey Gourami
1 Zebra Danio
5 Panda Corys
1 BNP
Not a very good stock in my opinion; but thats for another thread.
I'm having trouble with my filter. Over the past 5 months or so, every time I turn the filter off to do a water change, some of the contents of the filter spew out into the tank. Both through the intake and the output depending on if I'm taking water from the tank or just turning the filter back on.
I went to a LFS in my area and asked the sales person in charge of filters and hardware about this, and he said that this happens to all filters, the best thing I can do is get some netting or pantyhose and put them over the intake or out put in hopes that this will catch all the debris.
Why is it that for 6 months my filter was fine at holding it's contents but now it has become incontinent (for lack of a better word)? This is the only filter I've had this problem with, (and I've got three filters going at any one time)
I tried using pantyhose to catch the waste, but it is incredibly hard and dangerous to hold pantyhose over a filter out put and plugging it in.
My tank looks gross, even with the pantyhose over the intake, 20 min after I do a water change there is waste all over the substrate as if I've done nothing.
I am seriously considering getting another filter! Does anyone have any other suggestions before I go and buy a new filter?
(I added extra filter floss in the hopes this would catch extra debris, and it worked for the first two changes, but now that it has become saturated it makes no difference)
3 Honey Gourami
1 Zebra Danio
5 Panda Corys
1 BNP
Not a very good stock in my opinion; but thats for another thread.
I'm having trouble with my filter. Over the past 5 months or so, every time I turn the filter off to do a water change, some of the contents of the filter spew out into the tank. Both through the intake and the output depending on if I'm taking water from the tank or just turning the filter back on.
I went to a LFS in my area and asked the sales person in charge of filters and hardware about this, and he said that this happens to all filters, the best thing I can do is get some netting or pantyhose and put them over the intake or out put in hopes that this will catch all the debris.
Why is it that for 6 months my filter was fine at holding it's contents but now it has become incontinent (for lack of a better word)? This is the only filter I've had this problem with, (and I've got three filters going at any one time)
I tried using pantyhose to catch the waste, but it is incredibly hard and dangerous to hold pantyhose over a filter out put and plugging it in.
My tank looks gross, even with the pantyhose over the intake, 20 min after I do a water change there is waste all over the substrate as if I've done nothing.
I am seriously considering getting another filter! Does anyone have any other suggestions before I go and buy a new filter?
(I added extra filter floss in the hopes this would catch extra debris, and it worked for the first two changes, but now that it has become saturated it makes no difference)
