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:facepalm: The wife was pregnant and could go down the steep hill for obvious reasons so didnt get down there &c:ry

Monkeys? i was there 4 weeks ago, no monkeys?

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Read you manual Quote direct from page 13 of the manual: 1. Filtration always begins with a mechanical stage of waste particle removal as water is drawn through the foam that lines the perimeter of each basket. It continues as water is pumped "down" through the "media" in the three baskets. 2. Bottom media Basket, This basket receives the purest water stream, making it the proper place for dedicated biological media. As for Eheim having a better bio efficiency, this would depend on the media used, as the FX5 doesn't come with it's own media i would like to know what they used as a substitute. Although the filter states the pump has a flow rate of 3500l/h which is true for the pump, page 4 of the manual also states that the filters circulation is only 2,130l/h so the fact they could prove the output wrong was never that at all they simply didn't read there manual.

Some reason feels his opinion is needed, as well as pointing out what the rest of us see as obviouse. On a better note welcome to the forum Josh's link should answer all your questions.

L18 out of water for 18hrs

Yep

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Leave your light's on while they have eggs, they cant attack what they cant see.

Heterotrophic bacteria has a bad side

There is a website dedicated to the crossing and recording of Loricariidae, funniest part was most crosses appeared visually similar or the same to already assigned plecs.

With filters as small as 4-6watts i dont see any reasoning for turning it off, lack of oxygen is what will kill the bacteria so even a small filter or pump would be sufficient to maintain at least a small amount of bacteria.

FX5 filters top down

What was the Kh? as your Gh will have very little effect on the fish, live bearers (guppy's included) prefer higher ph with the buffering of kh obviously.

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Yup. The Latin meaning for Plecostomus is "Sucker Mouth" which i believe is a generic term for Loricariidae, but by all means those who would like to refer to "The Zebra" as Zebra Hypancistrus, Loricariidae go for your life.

Why bother halving it?

Depending on the desired inhabitants/style id use 2 FX5.

Dont know where you got your information but these are most definitely not from that same batch.

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Very odd that you got a reading of 0 for Nitrates