Filter

[orcadreamer]

Ok today I woke up and I desided to cange a 25% water for one of my boys.I followed my rutines as usual I turned the heater and the filter off then I started the water change then when I finished I wanted to turn my filted back on again but it didn't turn back I don't know what happened to the filter ??? Does anyone had that kind of problem and what should I do?

my filter is looks like this

with these wheel

Please Help

 

[CKutz]

i got one of those eclipse tanks..
don't really know what to tell you, but the filter seems like crap to me..mine barely moves water if the water isn't at the max almost. also i see stuff float right past the intake thing without getting sucked up...if i were you i'd just find another filter to use for that tank..

maybe you could take the black hexagonal frame thing, cut it in half so you can still put the light over the tank. get rid of the other half and put a small hob filter on there. i thought about doing something like that but decided to keep the tank has a hosp./q tank.

 

[orcadreamer]

Ohh oki and I was wondering can the betta survive with out the filter or it's need one ? It's a 5 gallon tank

 

[waterdrop]

Ohh oki and I was wondering can the betta survive with out the filter or it's need one ? It's a 5 gallon tank

Hi orca,

When you don't have a filter, you just go into "fish-in cycling" mode and follow the standard fish-in cycling procedure. Its covered in the "Beginners Resource Center" pinned at the top of the "New to the Hobby" forum. Basically you just need a good liquid-based test kit (if you don't already have one) and your goal is to find a pattern of water changing (of percentages and frequency of changes) that keeps your ammonia and/or nitrite(NO2) at 0.25ppm or lower at all times. Just do the water changes with proper conditioner and with rough temperature matching. Whether it takes one 50% water change a day or one every two days or whatever is the detective work you do with your test kit.

For example, say you change water in the evening. Your goal is that when you test 12 hours later in the morning, you are hoping that neither ammonia nor nitrite(NO2) will be any higher than 0.25ppm. Otherwise of course, you start to get gill and nerve damage, even if the fish seems ok. (Water changes always make you appreciate all the work a biofilter is doing for you day in and day out! )

~~waterdrop~~

 

[orcadreamer]

Thanks buddy for your tips