New 325 glass Arowana tank (7ft) with simple set-up

[islandguy11]

Beautiful fish. I like the drip trays. Is it a pain to keep the mech clean ?

Thanks buddy -- with this tank (only 1 fish) it's not really a trouble because I don't have much waste or detritus at all (due also to daily siphonings). I only need to change the fine white filter about once a month. However if used in say a heavily stocked cichlid tank or similar you might need to change them once every week or two. Of course a pre-filter on the pump would help in this regard.

It is a little bit of a pain to get the mech pads out from the trays without removing the spray bar which also locks in the trays, but you soon learn a little trick for pushing and pulling them in/out.

Overall I think it's a very effective and easy to maintain filter.

 

[Galantspeedz]

Better to have spray bar with more than 1 row of outlet.... if not, you will see that the mech filter will have only 1 line of detritus where the water drip on.... same goes for the bio media

Not sure how effective that would be thus I avoided using it

 

[islandguy11]

Better to have spray bar with more than 1 row of outlet.... if not, you will see that the mech filter will have only 1 line of detritus where the water drip on.... same goes for the bio media

Not sure how effective that would be thus I avoided using it

The spray bar on this unit is not a single, straight bar -- on top of each tray the spray bar goes into kind of an oval, so it covers most of the tray. This also does a good job of ensuring the bio media gets effectively covered by water throughout the tray. If you want you can also slightly change the angle of the spray bar periodically to cover different areas, but it's pretty effective as is.

 

[Galantspeedz]

nice

 

[Deusm]

Hello!

Can you kindly let me know if any of you use coral sand in your filters? I have seen some arowana keepers use it in their tanks but some what puzzled as I've read they are a soft water fish.

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