Hi all,
Have done some searches on this surface film, and found lots of people with heavy planting and EI dosing have had this (which I also do).
Except im pretty sure I can pin point when this film appeared in my tank - and thats when I used vasoline to grease the o ring in filter. So i tried to clean all the vasoline out and bought some silicone o ring grease used for diving equipment. Problem seems to be just as bad if not worse.
Every day Im doing the paper towel thing or syphoning off the grease. Next day its back again.
Its very frustrating - my plants aren't getting the light and they certainly dont pearl if i leave the film on the surface.
So yesterday, I flushed out the o ring with 'quite hot' water and am going to pay the price for eheim lub!
In the meantime any other ideas how to get rid of this stuff?
Thank
Julia
Have done some searches on this surface film, and found lots of people with heavy planting and EI dosing have had this (which I also do).
Except im pretty sure I can pin point when this film appeared in my tank - and thats when I used vasoline to grease the o ring in filter. So i tried to clean all the vasoline out and bought some silicone o ring grease used for diving equipment. Problem seems to be just as bad if not worse.
Every day Im doing the paper towel thing or syphoning off the grease. Next day its back again.
Its very frustrating - my plants aren't getting the light and they certainly dont pearl if i leave the film on the surface.
So yesterday, I flushed out the o ring with 'quite hot' water and am going to pay the price for eheim lub!
In the meantime any other ideas how to get rid of this stuff?
Thank
Julia