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I'm trying to be good and not annoy the mods.

Lots of extra vitamin B(ugs), vitamin C(r*p) and Vitamin S(piders)

After living on tank water for 11 years...Ignorance is bliss.

Dead Chicken Parts.

It can be done, but it's not practical.

It's this...

Must be pretty consistent. I tested my 404s when I had them, which are rated at about the same flow and I think I got similar results. So, may not be getting factory numbers, but at least the testing method seems to be repeatable.

Since this had been discussed before and I needed an excuse to not do real chores... I'm decommissioning a tank so I have a spare cannister (All CF1200s) I decided to do a little flow testing. Between tests and replumbing I let the filters circulate water through the tank for a little bit to eliminate any air then let them pump into a bucket with the outlet at roughly tank water level for 15 seconds. Cannister A(very Dirty)=2.25L or 540 LPH B(Clean)=2.25L or 540 LPH Surprisingly, level of cleanliness seemed not to make any difference in flow, and the dirty one was last cleaned months ago vs the clean one at about 4:30pm A(On)in series with B(off)= 2.1L or 504 LPH A(On)in series with B(On)=2.75L or 660 LPH The second cannister only cut flow by about 7%, a lot less than I expected , not really much. With both pumping in series the pressure on my thumb blocking the hose(Maximum head) was a lot more, I'd say double, I don't have any way of measuring it. But water flow only increased a 22% So...if you want more flow, run your filters in parallel not in series.(Unless they're working against a large static head) Of course, that's what everyone already does. I just thought I'd post some numbers since I did the work. :dunno:

Shouldn't be any reason you can't. Just make sure there's a little current and pick out any eggs that fungus.

Daphnia probably won't help much, fish do a great job of eating them faster than they reproduce.

So?

And how do you get ammonia from sodium hypochlorite?

Just don't jump it.

I miss going on field trips. Not that I went on many at school...You don't get to go on many field trips once you're out of elementary school.

Yeah, it's raining.

Dwarf puffers don't have sex. Probably she won't even lay the eggs without a male in the tank in the tank trying to spawn with her and if she does lay without a male around there will be noone to fertilize them.

Not going to have much luck breeding without a male...

I don't think it's a matter of holding oxygen. Most of the reason fish suffocate out of water is that out of water their gills collapse and all the folds and filaments start to stick together. This hugely cuts down the surface area of the gills. If that didn't happen they'd likely have very little problem breathing air given that they're evolved for water which has a fraction the density of oxygen air does. Probably their gills are just better protected from that, hold water a bit better so their gills don't collapse as much.

People have had them stuck in driftwood out of the water for an hour or more.

Too bad it's got some kid blocking the shot.

Forcing animals to fight for entertainment bugs me... :lol:

I haven't found that they do destroy plants. Dig them up, yeah, When they're sifting through the sand. But then you can just put rocks around the base to minimise that.

They probably died and then their corpses were eaten.

Don't do this:

I forgive you then. And apologize for being grumpy back.