Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!hoptoad!amdcad!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!sdcsvax!ucsdhub!hp-sdd!ncr-sd!crash!gryphon!richard 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 Lines: 42 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 -- Richard J. Sexton INTERNET: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM UUCP: {hplabs!hp-sdd, sdcsvax, ihnp4, nosc}!crash!gryphon!richard "It's too dark to put the keys in my ignition..."