Lexiih36
New Member
I currently have a 20 gallon. It's stocked with 9 harlequin rasboras (they've been there for a little over month), a male Betta (2 weeks), and as of this morning, 2 female guppies (not even a full 24 hours). The male guppy who accompanied the females was tragically crushed under the brand new sponge filter I bought along with the guppies.
I do currently have an aquaclear HOB filter and a prefilter sponge (I heard that no matter what, female guppies are prolly pregnant). I don't want to worry about filtration, especially since I plan to have more aquatic animals to the tank (like shrimp and some more fish), but I would not like the tragedy of more fish being crushed under the weight of the sponge filter. Should I just remove it and use it in a seperate tank ( not that I current own one, but I would like to upgrade to a 30 or 40 gallon and perhaps use the 20 as a quarantine/fry tank eventually) or is there another way to prevent this?
The sponge filter is technically for a 40 gallon btw. I really wanted to make sure filtration was fine lol. Thank you.
I do currently have an aquaclear HOB filter and a prefilter sponge (I heard that no matter what, female guppies are prolly pregnant). I don't want to worry about filtration, especially since I plan to have more aquatic animals to the tank (like shrimp and some more fish), but I would not like the tragedy of more fish being crushed under the weight of the sponge filter. Should I just remove it and use it in a seperate tank ( not that I current own one, but I would like to upgrade to a 30 or 40 gallon and perhaps use the 20 as a quarantine/fry tank eventually) or is there another way to prevent this?
The sponge filter is technically for a 40 gallon btw. I really wanted to make sure filtration was fine lol. Thank you.