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From: richard@gryphon.UUCP
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria,rec.pets
Subject: Re: Tank Filtration
Message-ID: <2414@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: Thu, 26-Nov-87 14:59:09 EST
Article-I.D.: gryphon.2414
Posted: Thu Nov 26 14:59:09 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 29-Nov-87 16:54:26 EST
References: <1097@inuxd.UUCP>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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Xref: hoptoad alt.aquaria:25 rec.pets:1983
Summary: You sure you wanna do that ?

In article <1097@inuxd.UUCP> padgett@inuxd.UUCP (Gary Padgett) writes:
>At the advice if a friend I arranged my tank (29 gal.) so that the
>power filter pulls water through the undergravel filter. I have
>noticed that most tanks seem to have the filters functioning
>separately with the air-driven undergravel filter outputting water
>through an activated charcoal filter into the tank and the power filter
>pulling water through a syphon tube an inch or so above the gravel.

Well, what this will do is increase the efficiancy of your
undergravel filter, as the expense of not being able to clean
the muck out of your outside filter. Said muck will be trapped
in the gravel. Is that what you really want ?

Yeah, I know it was a neat idea. I did it once too.

Could you get those "power head" undergravel filter motors
that stick onto the tops of the undergravel filter output stems ?

>What are the advantages/disadvantages of my present setup? I have
>floss and an "Ammono-Carb" bag in the power filter (I heard
>"Chemi-Pure" is better.

Never used 'em.  Changing water is cheaper.

>Also my plants are suddenly disappearing. I have several varieties of
>Tetras, platys, paleatus catfish, two varieties of gouramis (flame and
>kissing), and an ever-enlarging plecostomus. I suspect the
>plecomostomus. Any coments?

The pleco sure is a good suspect, as are the platies. What kinds
of plants ? Are the plants going from perfectly healthy to gone
in one fell swoop, or are they turning brown and dissolving ?

>Gary Padgett


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