Hi everyone i have a quick question here... i fairly recently got a marbled motoro stingray (a few weeks ago) and he has been doing great in his small temporary (a few more weeks until i get my 180g) home. Last week i was suprised to find small levels of ammonia in my tank. luckily no tankmates were harmed by the spike, but the spike led me to buy a aquaclear power filter to help keeping the tank clean with my eheim 2215. The new aquaclear was doing great in my tank until sand started to get into it, and within a week the sand burned out the motor. Luckily i happened to have a replacement motor, which i put on the filter along with a "sponge" type of filter cover which i hoped would prevent any sand from getting into the filter. Well everything was going well with my new filter setup until the ray kicked up sand right in front of my eyes during feeding time and broke the second motor (the sand got in the filter through the sponge cover). Im out of ideas (please dont suggest purchasing a different type of filter because i will be upgrading tanks in a few weeks, but i just want to have this extra filter in the time being so i dont have any more water quality issues). I have read that maybe cutting the thing that sucks up the water shorter? any ideas would be great. Thanks alot for everyones time.
Sand getting into filter???
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If your having an ammonia spike you may not want to remove your substrate right now. Put a piece of pantyhose over the filter's intake. Alot of people recommend pool filter sand
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You could fashion a surface skimming attachment out of a capped off piece of pvc fit over the intake if that makes any sense. If not I can try and explain what I am thinking better
the sand i am using is very fine, i would remove it and switch to a less fine sand but first off like i said i am upgrading in a few weeks so it would be a huge waste of $, and second off like bacchus said, i recently had an ammonia spike, so removing the sand would mean removing beneficial bacteria, so i don't think removing the sand would be a good idea.
Just put a hydro pre filter on your intake. Here is a link to a picture of one and a place to buy it: http://www.jehmco.com/html/hydro-sponge_filters.html
It is called a spin down filter and is a must for any tank with sand. Put is on the intake side of your filter and any sand that gets sucked in spins around inside this filter until you open the drain and let it out.
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