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I have the same filter, I took it apart for the first tie to clean it, now it won't work. Any suggestions on what the problem is would be helpful. I'm new to aquarium life.
I’d love to help but that’s a hard one. Does it make noise at all? Could the impeller be in a bind? Is it fully primed, meaning it’s full of water and the intake hose is full of water? Could the hose have become blocked? So many questions that could be asked. Hope you can figure it out!
Hello, thanks for the video. How did you keep the eggs from forming fungus in parent raised fry tank since Methyl blue is not good for the biological filter in the sponge?
I just got the 9W version and noted that the pump flow seems very slow. Maybe <1 GPM? It can deliver some pressure behind it, but overall flow is low. Have you seen this on yours? It does seem to be taking the green out of my water though, so that's nice. Cheers!
Yes there’s less flow than I thought. When I put my hand in front of it, it’s pretty gentle. The water needs to spend time next to the UV light to kill the green stuff so this is by design. Works great though!
Something to mention if you are medicating your fish for anything you might not want to run the UV light, it could neutralize the medication. Thank you for the review.
My daughter won a Carnival fish yesterday. We bought the little tank instead of them giving us a bag. Today we bought a 20 gal and are establishing the water. Unfortunately the fish keeps going to the top I’m assuming for oxygen. Nervous it won’t last another 24 hours in that tank. The fish was already 2.5 inches so it’s not gonna fair well in that little tank.
My son won a common goldfish like 3 years ago and the SOB still going strong. 💪 He named him "Robbie" after his favorite NFL kicker Robbie Gould. 😂 My only issue or concern is his growth. Damn fish went from half an inch to 4 inches and still growing.
These have been here around 3 years now. The original one died recently but the other 2 are huge and one is 10 inches. They're going to move to a 75 gallon so the biggest one can turn around easier.
I'm assuming you mean the stone paint cans. I've done a few 20 gallon high tanks recently. I got 3 of them done easily with one can and a couple coats each and maybe did a 4th with that can...not sure. Of course I still went over it with a solid color or it would take a whole can for a 20 gallon tank. They do go faster than a regular paint can.
@@FishyReviewok thanks I picked up 2 of the Pebble stone cans for a 300L 120cm table (4ft). The pebble can looks a little grey! But have the khaki paint to go with it as the follow up coats. Hope to start this week.
I don't know what I would do without a test kit. I've kept fish for 30 years in a 29-gallon with mixed results not knowing about the nitrogen cycle. That changed a couple years ago. For the last few years I've had goldfish in a 55-gallon. I have 5 shubnkin, 2 fantails and a butterfly telescope goldy. I recently bought a 75-gaIlon to transfer them as the largest fish are over 6". I have lots of Amazon swords and pothos clippings to help with ammonia as well as some decor from the old tank. Even some bottled bacteria, but the filter was new. When I got to 4 fish the nitrites spiked. I waited a week for it to balance and added another. It took me a month of adding bacteria, water changes, etc. before everyone moved out, but without testing I might easily have lost some fish. Now I have an empty 55-gallon that's fully cycled that as of yesterday, has 4 female bettas, 6 harlequin rasboras, a bristle nose pleco and 3 rainbow paecox. Looking forward to adding other small schooling fish and given it's planted and cycled I have more freedom to go crazy than ever before.
That’s good stuff that other fish keepers could learn from. My usual approach is to have lots of excess area for good bacteria to grow and I don’t see spikes as I add fish unless the pH drops to 6 or less and then the good bacteria are a lot less active. Hope you enjoy your new setup!
the filter works fine it just makes this loud sound every so often it was good for along time then out of nowhere it started to make this loud grinding sound sounds like grinding atleast but the water is still being pulled in and pushed out so it cant be the perpeller i just cant figure it out ive torn it down 13x and its still doing it
The only part that can make any noise like that is the impeller. Take it out and make sure it's completely clean and shine a very bright light down into the hole where it goes in case there's a small rock or snail down in there. Good luck!
@@LB_MadMonk I believe they have a 3 year warranty so if you call Spectrum Brands they will hopefully help you get all fixed up. If it’s longer than 3 years then I’d buy a whole new one and you’ll have some spare parts for it.
I have to ask did you try removing everything from the tank and then turning the tank dark for a week or so? I feel that wouldn’t hurt anything in the tank except kill all the algae and this way there would be no risk at all when adding fish back.
I haven't tried that, but I thought about it. One problem would be that you would have to really black out the tank. I bet this stuff can go a while without light. I still have it in some tanks and I'll try that whenever I get where I have somewhere else to put the fish.
This is amazing I have never seen someone find a problem they have and experiment like this to get rid of it I love it this is exactly what I’m interested in
No, this is a myth that people keep repeating. If the water from the faucet was such a strong killer of bacteria, you would be able to wipe down your countertops with tap water and kill everything, right? I try to be quick about it and I do minimal rinsing of the bio media and I make sure to get it back in tank water within 15 minutes. Maybe a small percentage of the bacteria die but I’ve never crashed a cycle doing this. Could there be really strong chlorine in my tap water someday and it wipes it out? Maybe but that wouldn’t be too good for us humans either. BUT if you have any doubts or want to be extra careful then don’t use tap water.
This company has recently moved there filter manufacturing to Vietnam they are now making there large filters, Item No. 100106087, out of poor quality materials. After using there new filters they left my tank water looking cloudy all the time. If you find some older packages that was made in China they are the better filters. In the pet stors these filters are over priced and they don't clean the water I don't recommend this filter.
Great video. You said the Linear is quieter than the rubber diaphragm, but which rubber diaphragm are you comparing? I think that’s important to mention. The smaller Alita diaphragm pumps are rated at 27 and 29 db’s, the largest a little more. The smallest linear from Jehmco at well over 30.
Good point. My diaphragm pump is an Alita-60. It was definitely louder to my perception than the linear pump. It could be that the diaphragm pump was more annoying at certain frequencies or that is was making noise because it wasn’t bleeding off properly. It sure was annoying though. It has that low frequency hum that penetrates the space.
@@FishyReview thanks for this! I got an Alita 15 and I’m finding it really annoying. Overall sound is low, but like you said, the frequency is key, and on mine there is a partion of the sound that is a high pitch. I’m hoping it’s just mine. I doubt it, but surprised nobody mentions this and all I see are positives.
Back in the 80's I also had a 30 gallon long with 2 big angels and several other freshwater fish. I noticed that one of my angels was laying eggs on a piece of drift wood I had standing up in the tank. I didn't know what to do so they hatched and were quickly eaten by all the other fish. The next time she laid eggs I was ready for it. I had gone to the library and read up on what to do to raise the eggs. I removed the driftwood and put it into a ten gallon I had set up. When they hatched they just laid on the bottom of the tank wiggling, but when they started to swim I took a tiny dot of cooked egg yolk and squashed it in between my fingers and they ate that till they got big enough to eat brine shrimp. I was in my mid 20's when that happened. I just turned 60 and I still think about those fish and how fun it was to raise them! Now I have 3 little dogs that drive me crazy with their barking, but I sure do love them, as much as I loved those fish! lmao!
I remember in the 80s that my step father got all excited when the angels laid eggs and he ran out and bought a divider. when he got home, the eggs were gone and we never did raise any angels. But it sparked a life long interest in me and I always wanted to raise angels. Successfully raising them in the 80s was quite the accomplishment!
The problem is that if you remove it, you will leave a large hole in the side of the intake. This is a great question because it highlights one thing that I’ve found I really dislike about this filter. They should include something that lets you cap it off. I have found that the little Fluval pre filter intake sponges fit the tube perfectly so that’s one way to deal with it.
Will this filter over power a Betta fish? I was getting the 20 gal kit which comes with this filter and I noticed that this filter does not come with a way to turn it up or down.
I’m honestly excited to get some goldfish at the carnival in a couple weeks because I’m going to get a 30 gallon tank and I’m gonna get try and win like three or two goldfish but yeah
is it necessary to put the bio filter in chlorine?? i got a 75 gal filter one and it didn’t come with those instructions, just wondering if it’s different but that also seem off..?
You don’t put the bio filter in chlorine. If you buy the add-on micron filter and use it then you will need to clean it with the bleach and water mix like I was talking about. The bio wheel should never be cleaned unless it gets super gunked up and then you should clean it in de-chlorinated water.
I hope you were able to get it figured out. You. wed to make sure you get the canister as full of water as you can and it helps to pull the output line out of the tank while you are priming it with the button on top.
We won a gold fish at the carnival. Completely unplanned. I have no idea how to take care of it, I've never had fish before. I thought we'd just grab a cheap bowl and some pretty rocks. Imagine my surprise when I saw how much Angel (my 8 year old named her) actually needs. Hopefully she lives because as soon as she got home we dumped her in a random bowl of water (it was late) until we could get to the pet store. Then I googled it and yeah... you're not supposed to do that.
I hope it worked out but if not then the key to fish keeping is to keep trying. Goldfish get really big. My largest from this video is now 10 inches long.
This filter isn’t designed with extra space for them but sometimes people get creative and put a few in a small mesh bag and fit them into filters like this. They help hold more places for your good bacteria to grow. They aren’t needed if your tank isn’t over loaded.
It would take too many coats of the texture paint and that would take a lot longer to dry. It’s better to put 2 coats of texture, let it dry 1-3 days then 2 coats of the regular paint, a few minutes apart and let that dry 1 day.
@@FishyReview i am trying to set the 200 up and everytime i try and connect to the app site it says website is missing. please upload the website. i can't get past this and my filter won't run for very long before it stops and only starts again if i unplug and plug back in and than just does it over again.
