hahaha i just saw my jack in those pics, well he loves to show off for the cell phone camera but ill be posting more when i get the fish in and im hoping to get some more plants for the tank so this is going to be fun, hahahaha laugh with me lol
jack dempsey 55 G tank
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ok everyone i had some trouble with my rena canister filter today its still making that film apear on the surface of the water and i dont like that at all even with the return and a power head the film still stays so i got some new marineland 330s HOB filters today, i got to it said they are rated for 330 gallon and hour and i 55 need to have a turn over rate of 10 times and hour or at least what im trying to get, so these filters will be nice to have they are very quiet i have owned one of the smaller models for the 20 gallon that all the fish are coming out and goin into the 55 so them being queit is nice, and im goin to start using carbon i dont really like it but my water has goin a bit clowdy in the past 2 days and i also added my large jack after 2 weeks the water parameters are all good i seeded the tank so that helped with the cycle and i am having ammonia problems in the 20 gallon, the ammonia is at 1 ppm in the 20 and my pleco is not doin so well nore is the parrot fish the other jack is ok and the convicted i got is doin ok aswell, ill post pics up of the filters
new pics muhahahahaha, ok the this is the first pic this is the cool looking night light, not sure what kind cuz my dad got them for me, haha he said that the moon lighting was so !@$% bright that he could see it in my parents room so he got this i think its like a dimmer cuz there is only 2 light and those are the main lights so ya ok hears the pic
ok as you can see the door on the right side is off but that will go back on tonight or tommorow, and you ma also want to know what the tank is under the 55, well i hate to do water changes or at least sticking my hand in tank cuz when u put your hands in the tank and there not clean god knows what the hell is on your hands and how it work is its about 30% water change each week andi did the first water change last night, ohh sry about how it works is well there is an egg crate under the gravel and on top of the egg crate is a thin sheet of plastic that has thousands of hole in it and the holes are about the size of a BB that goes in a BB gun, and i have a PVC pipe that the hose is attached 2, now this PVC runs all the way across the tank and capped at one end and this PVC pipe has about 50 holes drilled in it to pull water from all sides of the tank and all the uneaten food and poop fall or get traped in the gravel is sucked up threw the PVC to the 10 gallon below now im not sure how well it works but when i did the first test change it did pull out alot of stuff that i didnt even know was down there, hahaha kinda like an under gravel filter but for water changes, ill try and draw a pic upto show you a little better what im talkin about, ok heres the pic its ruff but its easy to do, payed about 10 bucks for all and the plastic screen i had laying around not sure what its called or what they use it for but i know what im using it for haha, anyway hears the pic
