jameson_uk
Member
Just cleaning the filter again and after moving to an eight week schedule I am still seeing masses of gunk in the filter.
Is what was left at the bottom of the filter but there was plenty of this silty gunk right the way through.
Filter is an eheim 2217 with a few cm of efimech, a corse sponge and then eheim substrat pro. There is also an eheim pre filter in place. I rinse the sponges in the pre-filter twice a week and that is always pretty funky but this small stuff seems to be getting in.
What am I doing wrong to create this amount of gunk? I don't think I am overfeeding (although I have in the past), I am not overstocked and I try and remove any dead / dying leaves as I spot them. I have also cleaned all the pipework recently too.
I can add some fine sponge / floss which I guess should catch it but it seems others don't get anything like this to start with so would prefer to reduce the source of the gunk.
Filter is now spotless but it will be back like this in a few weeks.
Is what was left at the bottom of the filter but there was plenty of this silty gunk right the way through.
Filter is an eheim 2217 with a few cm of efimech, a corse sponge and then eheim substrat pro. There is also an eheim pre filter in place. I rinse the sponges in the pre-filter twice a week and that is always pretty funky but this small stuff seems to be getting in.
What am I doing wrong to create this amount of gunk? I don't think I am overfeeding (although I have in the past), I am not overstocked and I try and remove any dead / dying leaves as I spot them. I have also cleaned all the pipework recently too.
I can add some fine sponge / floss which I guess should catch it but it seems others don't get anything like this to start with so would prefer to reduce the source of the gunk.
Filter is now spotless but it will be back like this in a few weeks.