I have a well established 10 gallon tank of 1 year now. The little 10 gallon filter is horrible though and I am upgrading tanks at the end of this year, so I bought an Aqueon 30-45 gallon filter. I recently just put it on my 10 gallon and other than doing water changes to keep my fish from dying, is there anyother tips? thanks
Putting on a new filter.
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Electric45;3243237; said:
You should have allowed both filters to run for a month or 2 before removing the established filter. That way the new one has time to colonate biological bacteria and be able to perform as a bio filter like the old one was.
I am guessing you did not do this. So the only thing you can do is keep checking your ammonia and nitrite levels and at anytime you get a reading of over .25ppm of etheir one do a water change.
You could also add a bio booster such as safe start by aqua safe to the tank to add the needed bio bacteria if you are having ammonia problems.
I THINK YOU WILL BE ALRIGHT!!! AS LONG AS YOU DONT CHANGE ALL THE WATER AND PUT A NEW FILTER AT THE SAME TIME. UP DATING THE FILTER IS LIKE CHANGING YOUR YOUR FILTER EVERY MONTH. NO BIG DEAL. LIKE I SAID " DONT CHAGE THE FILTER AND THE WATER AT THE SAME TIME"
alright thanks. yea well i couldnt run them both at the same time because there isnt enough room on the top of my tank. This Aqueon 30 is super powerful, i think as along as I do daily water changes roughly 15% i will be fine.