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No. I didn't mean that. I meant that I had read that an optimum filteration is one where in you have a water cycle of about 10x per hour. Now given the volume of my tank (425 lt.) the water output of this filter is much low say about 1700 LPH. I am apprehensive that whether this can take the...

thanks for the advise. I am still apprehensive about the filtering capabilities of Ehiem though. keeping my fingers crossed.

I bought bio balls, ceramic rings and carbon to be kept in each of three trays. would it be fine?

I installed the Eheim 2080 yesterday. It is a big filter. It came with two filter pads one coarse and one fine. Apart from that it has three empty trays. Please advise what can I fill those with? My idea was ceramic rings and plastic bio balls.

I understand. Thanks for the kind advise. I will write again if I need any help

so I go by your advise. Though my present internal filters cycle the tank at about 10X. I think as advised by you, one external Eheim 2080 would be sufficient. I will remove all the internals. Please advise if this is ok.

I have one oscar, parrot, salvini, upside down cat, red devil, severam, rainbow shark. Please advise what should be the ideal flow rate for an external for such a tank. I would also add one internal if required to move the water around.

I have a 425 lt (5*1.5*2)tank with three internal filters that give me a water cycle of about 5000 LPH. I want to replace all of these with one external. But I was not able to find a filter of that volume. Please tell me if there is any difference in the internal filter capacity and external...

the new Tiger Oscar and old upside down cat, Parrot and Salvini. Also seen is the severam

The Tiger Oscar that just passed away last week. And the walking cat that I donated to a friend.

Ya the tank is in middle of the room. I will add more rocks so that it is about 50% of the tank height on the left. I have a tiger oscar, two parrots, a severam, a salvini, a flower horn, a upside down cat (remains in hiding mostly) and one walking cat. walking cat will be donated to one of my...

Ya the split door in the front opens on hinges. I use it to drop food. I have small wooden pieces on all the four corners inside the hood to hold it on the tank. I still do not like the open area we have in the stones block. Shall I leave it open or how can I do something better there.

Ya made it out of wooden strips. Did not polish it to retain the natural look. BTW did some changes in the aquascaping.

I have plenty of open swimming area. I am planning to add some rocks to the left hand side. Any Suggestions?

These are Bodyguard 2200 F filters. These are with double chamber and the chambers are stacked one below the other so it occupies a little space. the chambers are about 2"x2"x12" (LxBxH) I believe I have an ammonia spike. The fish are restless and dull color. Before I check stats again I am...

Nitrate 30 Nitrite 0 Temp 28 C BTW I bought a new internal filter of the same quality. Now three of them are running and all r rated 2000 lph.

OMG. After you pointed out, I recalcuated the volume. It is 425 lt tank. Some mistake I committed while calculating earlier. Now both of my internal filters are rated as 2000 LPH. I think this filteration is ok for the tank. Please advise if I need to add another filter. Also I do a weekly water...

I have a total of six fishes. texas is in the tank for two years. I will post water stats shortly. I change water weekly. I have two internal filters that cycle the entire tank ten times in an hour. BTW I am running this tank for over two years now without much problem. This is the first time...

I have an oscar about 9 inches. It is two years old in my tank. It was about 4 inches when I bought her. I have other fishes that grew up with him like parrots, severam, texas. I used to feed them a mix diet of pallets, tetra bits and frozen blood worms. Recently I discontiued adding blood worms...

Ok Guys. Heeding to advise from you fellows, I upgraded to a 125 G tank two years ago. Now I have two oscars, two walking cats, two severams and one texas. The tank is running fine till now. One of my oscar is about nine inches. the walking cats are over the foot. other fishes are about six...

I agree. Green terrors should be left with other cichlids of about same size who can protect them selves. Preferable tank mates are oscars, perrots and flower horn

Great info guys. The swelling is also lessening now so is the pain. Thanks again for such a fast reply

Thanks Colin for a fast and relieving reply. Hot water gives immediate relief to the stinging. thanks every one. The replies were really very fast.

while cleaning my tank, my index finger got pierced by the dorsal fin of scat. It started bleeding. Now I have unbearable pain. Do I need to take some medicine? I have applied antiseptic to the wound

I lost my flower yesterday. It was a sad day for me. But I have learnt some lessons with this loss.

As per the aquarium calculator the volume of my tank is 425 Ltrs. My both filters are rated for 2000 LPH. So it gives me 4000 LPH which is more or less equal to turning over the water 10 times per hour. So I feel that the filters are alright as per your standards. I will start doing the water...

Understood. If I were to replace both the internal filters with one external, then what do you suggest. Please give me the lph rating or other ratings and not the name of the filter as most of the imported filters are not available in India. I will take the filter best matched with the rating...

Flower horns are very territorial. Mine however has learned to live with other tank mates. One because all the fishes were of the same size when I put them in. Secondly because I have a big tank.

Sorry for the confusion I created. I have two flower horns. One is 7" and the other one having the problem is 3". I have two internal filters rated for 2000 lph each. Both are sponge filters. I will reduce the weekly water change to 50 %. The main reason of doing so much water change is that I...

I will answer the queries one by one. I am doing a weekly water change that too about 80 %. I have been doing this for over a year. I clean my filters once a month. My mortality rate is three fishes in one year that too happened in winters because I got delayed in water change. Salvini is about...

I recently added a white flower horn in my 125 gal tank. I have one oscar, pair of parrots, pair of green texas, one flower horn, one salvini, pair of walking cats. The new flower horn was badly bitten for two three days. The poor thing survived that and got healed fully. Now I have been closely...