Beware of one piece sponge filters!
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Beware of one piece sponge filters!
Having recently changed all of my filters to sponge filters I thought everything was going great. Until this morning that is.
Somehow this shrimp has managed to walk right down to the bottom elbow of my filter. Trouble is the filter is moulded in one piece, subsequently there is no way of recovering the shrimp.
I've tried turning up the flow in a bid to flush it out, but its really determined to stay put. I feel a bit mean bombarding it with tons of air anyway.
Unless it finds its own way out, I'm going to have to saw the filter up.
To prevent this happening again, I've bought some much better filters that can easily be totally dismantled.
Somehow this shrimp has managed to walk right down to the bottom elbow of my filter. Trouble is the filter is moulded in one piece, subsequently there is no way of recovering the shrimp.
I've tried turning up the flow in a bid to flush it out, but its really determined to stay put. I feel a bit mean bombarding it with tons of air anyway.
Unless it finds its own way out, I'm going to have to saw the filter up.
To prevent this happening again, I've bought some much better filters that can easily be totally dismantled.
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I hope my new filters will be the answer.......they have an outlet that's about 20mm wide. Theory is they can easily wander in and out, and even if they do get stuck its easy to take it apart and free them.
I have tried using some old cut up nets over the outlets before, trouble is they are easy to forget. Then before you know it they are impairing the flow and potentially risking an ammonia spike.
I have tried using some old cut up nets over the outlets before, trouble is they are easy to forget. Then before you know it they are impairing the flow and potentially risking an ammonia spike.
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