#canister filter

[da-riya]

[the-dragon-invasion-is-near]

The glass scientists cover for volume 2 is so pretty???? I love how it matches the first volume too

I swear, if my titulation project was not sucking all of my savings, i would preorder it right now

[pancakeke]

when i was setting up the new canister filter i got it all connected and turned it on but then went to move the intake tube a bit and accidentally let it suck up a bunch of air. so I turned the pump off, took the intake tube out, and jiggled everything around until the air was forced out.

then i put everything back and turned the pump back on. but I forgot to put the intake tube where I actually needed it to go. so I went to move it over and accidentally let it suck up a bunch of fucking air again.

[toytulini]

broke one of my filters last night due to Stupid, but i think i salvaged most of the media worth saving, got them all clean, the fish were Eating Actively last night, and i added meds

[prince-liest]

So my AquaClear 50 (a "hang-on-back" aquarium filter rated for 20-50 gallon tanks) kicked the bucket at a very convenient 11pm last night after I gave it a cleaning upon returning from my 3 week holiday travels. Specifically, the impeller shaft decided that it didn't like being properly attached to the motor, actually, and in fact preferred to whirl around and make horrific grinding noises of the sort you typically hear before something mechanical outright explodes.

I, high off of three separate fairly-to-highly profitable zines deciding that it was time to pay out enough money in the last week of December that I actually have to file taxes in 2024 now, immediately took it as a sign to blow all of that money on a canister filter.

Behold, my new Fluval 207!

Pictured: My Fluval 207, along with several items that you'd think wouldn't be located on an aquarium tool table, including sewing thread, a toothbrush, and a hacksaw. My friends pooled together to get me that exorbitantly expensive ADA toolstand for my last birthday and I love it from the bottom of my heart.

I can't wait to move for residency and get an actual aquarium stand that will hide the filter and the CO2 tank underneath it. For now, I simply celebrate the quieter, less objectionable hum (you'll notice it I distinctly did not use the term "ungodly rattle") of the canister filter.

Unfortunately, the tubing and inlet/outlet pipes it comes with are ugly as sin, so that'll be another month of saving up for actual lily pipes. For now, however, the shrimp are enjoying the sponge I put over the inflow tract, which is nice, because it is exclusively there to stop them from killing themselves via the intake pipe. Not that I don't expect to find several baby shrimp in the canister itself whenever I clean it next month.

Pictured: Ugly as sin, and also the deceptively poorly-lit sponge, upon which sits one shrimp you can see and four that you cannot, including the male amano. Apparently they are camera-shy.

All in all, a nice improvement from the poor 10-gallon filter that was keeping everyone nice and alive overnight. That thing was still quieter, though.

[fishcommunity]

Does anybody else have any like significant anxiety about fish tank leaks? Ever since my 55 sprung a leak a few years back I am like constantly worried about a filter or seam failing.

[maranull]

found out the turtle I'm gonna get is going to be a Chinese Striped Necked, which grows to about 10cm smaller than the Yellow Slider one I thought it was (tbf to me, the store has two Stripe Necked and two Sliders and only now I learned how to differentiate them)

which means both smaller tank when it reaches adulthood and also it'll be able to stay in the starter one I'm getting for maybe even a year more than what I was thinking (the starter one is giant for it rn, don't you @ me, I'm being very conscious about the —for now— tiny creature's eventual needs)

[punxsutawneyfilth]

JUST GOT PAID AND ORDERED MY AQUARIUM FILTERRRRRRRR

[kirstielol]

Working on the egg crate foundation for the crabitat today, and got my canister filter and water heater 🦀 getting so excited about this build.

[mod2amaryllis]

spent a long time yesterday battling duckweed, community looks nice this morning 💚

[scatmaan]

shaking my turtle, eat some of your FISH

[tahnisreu]

-watching the first avatar gameplay- 

okay i have 1 (one) quastion:

DOES HE HAVE A HALF-MASK.

[eggfancy]

I GOTTA stop looking at Zhao's page!! All of his Ranchu are so, so nice...sigh

[truvuaqariums]

Fluval's best-selling canister filter family, the 07 series, is in its seventh iteration after four decades of sales. The most recent model includes all the strength and dependability you've come to expect from the industry leader in aquatic filtration, along with a number of new performance enhancements that make it up to 25% quieter, more durable, energy-efficient, adaptable, and simpler to operate than before.

[prince-liest]

reasons to keep all of your old aquarium stuff in a box: sometimes your filter randomly breaks down at 11pm on a Sunday and you have to pull out the old shrimp tank HOB to chug the tank through the night before you get a new one in the morning

[ordofishian]

testing out this hand-me-down sicce canister filter so i can get used to operating canisters + have extra bio media stored and charging