A million and one steps later. This is why sales of aquariums are usually limited to actual hobbyists. The average household or family would find this inaccessible. All that work and ground hogs day starts all over again. Definitely an opportunity to improve the offering exists. If I created a system, it would be an easy product where each week you remove the filter and rinse well and reinstall. Plus a system of cleaning where a few long lasting cleaning brushes are supplied with an A4 page tutorial with photos for cleaning in 3 simple steps: scrub; turn light on to check; then scrub again. All up 2 minutes each time, including removal and reinstalling of filter. All that extra stuff like treatments and replacing of media is just a headache and a half. Totally devalues the experience. This is the reason why I quit aquariums although inside my heart I will always have a place for the beauty that a properly functioning aquarium offers.
Why the heck would you want to throw out the foam filter where all the beneficial bacteria live? This is just a ploy to get you to spend money, because replacing an old filter with a new filter, and not just rinsing it in aquarium water, will certainly throw off the nitrogen cycle and cause a spike in ammonia, and kill your fish. The right way to do this is replace the activated charcoal in the filter, and just rinse the foam sponge in the dirty water and put it back into the filter cartridge. You should only throw out a foam filter when you have another foam filter already in the tank, being seeded with beneficial bacteria for 2 or 3 weeks, so you can use it to replace the foam you're throwing away. This is the only way the nitrogen cycle doesn't get interrupted. The substrate that comes with these BiOrbs is not enough for bacteria to live.... The bacteria lives in both the substrate and the foam.... Both must always be seeded with beneficial bacteria to keep your aquarium "cycled" so you don't kill your fish.
I use tapsafe, just a quarter teaspoon every tank water change of 80 percent every 10 days or so. Have had my cloud minnows x4 and I Harlequin razbora for the past 3 years, so must have got something right, I feed Hikari fish food, I bought a bubble tube guard for around 3.20 from amazon to stop inquisitive fish! Removing central filter, washing sponges in draining tankwater, and replacing airstone, cleaning the tank sides, replacing temperature controlled water takes me around 45 minutes. Nice tank biorb flow, mine is the black one, great to see a tank that's not overstocked, looks great.
Hi I've got a really bad build up on fish waste and food waste in the bottom of my biorb tube 30L and I've gotva siphon but it doesn't seem to pick it up and the water goes very dirty very quickly. The only fish I have is guppies and one betta fish
Thinking of buying this setup, I am new to this fish lark and like neon tetras and guppy’s. Suppliers are advising that the tank only needs cleaning every 6-8 weeks, is this correct. This style will suit our lounge how many fish would be best in here. TIA
You can't. I followed forum recommendations and did a bleed valve for the air pump as the flow is too strong for my betta. The bleed valve I did has these knobs where I could adjust the air flow thus, controlling the flow of the bubbles in my Biorb Life.
Why the heck would you want to throw out the foam filter where all the beneficial bacteria live? This is just a ploy to get you to spend money, because replacing an old filter with a new filter, and not just rinsing it in aquarium water, will certainly throw off the nitrogen cycle and cause a spike in ammonia, and kill your fish. The right way to do this is replace the activated charcoal in the filter one week, and a couple weeks later, rinse the foam sponge in the dirty water and put it back into the filter cartridge. Never do replace or rinse both in the same water change. You should only throw out a foam filter when you have another foam filter already in the tank, being seeded with beneficial bacteria for 2 or 3 weeks, so you can use it to replace the foam you're throwing away. This is the only way the nitrogen cycle doesn't get interrupted. The substrate that comes with these BiOrbs is not enough for bacteria to live.... The bulk of the bacteria lives in the foam and charcoal.... substrate, foam and charcoal must always be seeded with beneficial bacteria to keep your aquarium "cycled" so you don't kill your fish. If one of them is removed or replaced with new media and you don't have seeded media to install immediately, I guarantee your fish are gonna die. If they don't die you're extremely lucky.
Well technically all the biological filtration happens on the ceramic rocks. Sponges are supposed to be the mechanical filter but ye it's definitely reusable.
@@junebug1344 it's all about balance of good bacteria and bad bacteria, you can buy test ph kits just a quick dip test and match up on outside of tube will tell you about your tanks nitrites and nitrates.
I had a Betta in my 30 litre biorb flow. He lived around 3 years. Fed on Hikari Betta Gold. Betta fish really need brackish water for longevity, so I wouldn't have another one.
@FionaclarkClark idk where you got the information that betta is a brackish fish cuz theyre really not. They live in a completely freshwater pond like environment completely cut off from the ocean and rivers.
And this aquarium is indeed good with betta fish. Really all aquariums that hold water will do, it all comes down to you as the owner on how well you take care of these fish.
