lovefish panorama 40 litre fish tank unboxing 

Lol, its not the most obvious, hope your betta girls enjoy their new home!

Thanks, i just use sponges in various grades/coarsenesses mostly as they last for years and just need cleaning out rather than replacing like the cartridge type ones do. This keeps the beneficial bacteria colony strong in the filter which in turn keeps the live animals in the tank healthy.

Sort of, what it really means is get some pond filter sponges from amazon and use those instead then never press that button again lol.

Its silent so long as you keep the water level high enough to not get the waterfall effect, plenty of gaps in the back of the lid to run cables through too. Thanks for watching!

Theres a small plastic hook that connects to the back of the filter alloeing to hang from the lip at the side of the tank.

You could do but its too small for a goldfish, ideally 100 litres plus for a single goldfish. Add an extra 30-50 litres for a second goldie.

Pets at home sell one that is a direct fit i believe, it has twice the leds in it.

Thanks, i hate to think what a 75 or 125 gallon kit would cost over here.

It is, the model number is MHE 1200-1250 if that helps.

Possible but chili rasbora are perfect sized snacks for a male apistogramma 😉. It's going to be an apisto breeding tank with a small bristlenose or somesuch.

I've never bothered with that as i don't use the filter cartridges, just a couple of pieces of sponge. As for filter cleans i squeeze out the sponges into the water i remove from the tank every week during my water change and maintenance. The button is supposed to tell you when the cartridge needs replacing but all those cartridges are is a way to get you to buy more stuff.

@@sharpiesfishandphantoms will it start flashing though is what I mean. At what point does I light up alerting me to change the filter. For example will I go to feed the fish one day, open the flap and see the light flashing. How does it work. Many thanks 😊

I think you press the button when you change the cartridge and it just counts down so dont bother pressing it and it wont come on. Your best bet is to get some sponge though and just not use the cartridges. My update video on the tank shows what i did.

I just get a pack of the egg crate looking sponge from amazon, the filter wont do anything to change your ph though, are you in a soft or hard water area?

@@sharpiesfishandphantoms thank you I've ordered some now. I have no clue what the water is but I'm in the North west UK. I use a love Fish water treatment and filter boost but nothing seems to work and think my fish are getting ammonia burn. Any advice?

My best advice would be to get some water testing strips and to do water changes with dechlorinated water. If you arent aware of the nitrogen cycle in a tank and how to achieve it it would be a good idea to watch a couple of videos on that.

I doubt it lol, thanks for watching though and there will be a long term review coming soon.

I bought a pack of coarse medium and fine filter sponge off amazon, you can also get it at a local fish store, only needs replacing when it disintegrates which can take a year or more, just cut to size. I'm using coarse and fine in mine.

Thanks so much grateful for the advice x

Thanks for watching and glad it could be of some use, my closest pets at home is great but i have visited others and kinda understand why they get slated if those are representative or someones local store. Happy new year to you too.

Its ok for low light plants like anubias and basic crypts.

@@sharpiesfishandphantoms mine was failing bought it used got a submersible light off Amazon £16 can go from 10-100% brightness normally it sucks onto the glass but managed to make it fit where the blue light would go

Mines a blackwater tank now so dimmer lights do well lol.

Doesn't look a bad bit of kit for the money so far, the 5 guppies i put in to get it running seem to like it, within 5 hours there are 17 of them in there 😂.

@@sharpiesfishandphantoms haha, should throw some cash in there and see if it has the same effect.

If i could breed cash I'd be happy lol, wonder how I'd declare that in taxes though😂.

Daniel Keeping Fish I’ve just bought one and Iv filled it to the water line mark on the pump and it produces zero bubbles , please help

@@trickymk1 so what bubbles do is allow for gas exchange at the surface. That's the benifit of air bubbles, not the actual bubbles moving through the water. So what you can do is either add an air bubbler or drop the waterline a tiny bit below the edge of the filter where the water flows back into the tank. That's what I did and it does the job fine. Hope that helps.

Not sure now but they were £100 when i got it, add in some vouchers and i got the mopani wood, substrate and heater too for no extra.

A piece of insulating tape over the socket would do a good job of keeping water out, alternatively you could chop the connector off the filter and plug that in after taping over the wire. It's a low voltage supply into the tank itself so there's no risk of a big shock.

@@sharpiesfishandphantoms thank you, I was thinking a little piece of electrical tape or bunging the hole up with some blue tac. I should come with a rubber bung so you can choose your own filter. Thanks for quick response

No worries, either should work, enjoy your tank, mine is now home to breeding apistogrammas and ember tetras.

@@sharpiesfishandphantoms it's my first attempt at keeping fish, I set it up Saturday then added half a dozen neon tetras yesterday and this morning the tank was really cloudy, I've been told it's a bacteria boom nothing to worry about but the filter wasnt producing enough water displacement even with an air brick in, I've read the comments about the filter on the pets at home website and they aren't good so I'm going to a specialist tomorrow to get a better one.

All I've added to mine is a sponge filter instead of an airstone. Just be aware that the tank will need to get its biological cycle running, it can take a few weeks with fish in.

Possibly the little post/hole things are getting loose. I have mine on the side of the tank and haven't had that problem. If it is the backplate coming away from the filter you could try using a hot screwdriver to spread out/melt the posts a little once you are sure you have it in the right place.

It plugs into a socket at the rear of the underside of the lid.

I just bought some filter sponge from amazon, comes in sheets so you can cut it to fit. As for stocking levels it all depends on the size and amount of fish, live plants and filtration. I'm slightly understocked with a breeding pair of apistogramma and 4 ember tetras but not by much, assuming your sucker is a bristlenose pleco you're pretty much full and as it grows you could have problems with high nitrates, i do a 25% water change and filter clean every week just to keep things in check.

Sorry for the delay, it's a 12 volt 1.25 amp transformer, should be fairly generic although you may have to change the jack plug.

The power brick that plugs into the wall will get slightly warm yes, if you mean where the filter plugs into the lid then it's not something I've noticed.

Thanks Chevy, might see if i can catch the embers in the 200l then, happy new year to you and yours too bud!

Pets at home do sell the spares so just call in at your local store. I was given the 64l version and the light had died, replacement was pretty reasonable.

Thanks for watching!

That was a thought but it'll be too warm for them with apistos in there.

@@sharpiesfishandphantoms ahhh lol. Fair enough 👍✌

Hadn't thought of those, I'll add them to the list of possibles, thanks.