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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
Subject: Re: Information on filtration needed
Summary: unga bunga
Keywords: fish, tanks, water and other things terraquious (my turtle)
Message-ID: <2598@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 16 Dec 87 06:17:30 GMT
References: <539@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Distribution: alt
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <539@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM> greg@ncrcan.UUCP writes:
>
>
>	I curretnly have a 75 gallon (CDN) tank.

Fresh or salt water ? I'm assuming it's freshwater.

>       I just recently installed
>	a new filter system using an EHIEM 2014 with the apropriate substrates
>	in the filter to do the type of filtering that I want.  My problem
>	is this:
>
>	Before switching over to this filter system, I was using the under-
>	gravel filter with two 200 gallon per hour pumps to pump water from
>	under the gravel bed and then through an external filter before
>	returning the water to the tank.
>
>	I still have the two powerheads installed and they now just circulate
>	water in the tank after sucking it through the gravel in the bottom
>	of the tank.  I also have the EHIEM filter sucking water from in the
>	tank through the filter system and then back into the top of the tank.
>
>	I would like to feed the water from the EHIEM filter back through
>	the down tubes and up through the gravel, however, I am worried about
>	the amonia levels in the tank going sky high if I just turn the water
>	going through the down tubes around.
>
>	Question(s):
>
>		Is there anything wrong or potentially hazardous with the
>		manner in which my tank is set up now?

No, I wouldn't say so.

>
>		Can I switch the water flow in the down tubes around without
>		risk life and fin of my fish?

I think I's stir the gravel up and diatom it to get it as clean as possible
and THEN do as you propose. But I cannot see any advantage to do what
you are proposing.

>
>	Notes:
>
>		The water in my tank is currently crystal clear, the pH level
>		is right where it should be as well as all the other chemical
>		levels in the tank.  I've been using the EHIEM for only one
>		week now and the tank was in perfect shape before I added the
>		new filtering system.

"Don't fix what ain't broken"

> "Shit Happens!"

Don't it, though ?

P.S. You might try the Mississauga Aquarium Society, there are a lot
of very in the know people there. 

> Greg.Foisy


-- 
"Well they say, that Santa Fe, is more, than 90 miles away"

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