My 89 Litre project.

[maverick786us]

Today's maintenance was a hard time.
1. I tried t remove Hydrocot Japen which spread like creepers and blocked the view of the river. I felt bad about it. One of those plants went all the way to the grass so while uprooting it took some of the hair grass too. Replanting the hair grass in the water was literally impossible.

2. When I took the pre filter sponge for cleaning, the lily pipe bottom section bottom section got separated from the main intake (picture 1 and 2). I couldn't figure out a way to fixe it and momentarily I thought that I will have to buy a new set of lily pipes, then I paid close attention and found out that bottom most screw has to be fixed on the intake with the net covering that section.

3. Whenever I take out my filter lily pipes out of water and put it back again, and start the filter, it adds air bubbles initially, but within 5 minutes, the bubbles are gone, this time the bubbles didn't go. So as advised in YouTube I tilted the filter to get rid of bubbles. But that didn't help. I turned off the filter and restarted but it got worse. While starting the filter, first few seconds the water enters from inlet with bubbles, comes out of the out take, but soon it stops. I have shared a video.
That was the most annoying part of it. I tried to turn off and on the filter multiple times and the result was same. I thought that problem might be with siphon, so I took the out take valve from the tank brought it down inside a bucket, but the water was coming flawlesssly. I couldn't figure out WTF the problem was. I rotated the bottom most mesh of the filter and 90 degrees clockwise and it started working.

 

[hypnogogia]

I think you’ve got an airlock in there, with big bubbles in both your suction side hose and pressure side hose. the easiste way to deal with it is to take the return (pressure side) Lilly pipe out of the tank and lower it into a bucket. Wait until the water flows properly, then return to the aquarium.

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,

1. I tried t remove Hydrocot Japen which spread like creepers and blocked the view of the river. I felt bad about it. OMne of those plants went all the way to the grass so while uprooting i Replanting the hair grass in the water was literally impossible.

I'm not trying to be funny, but why?

Healthy growing plants are your friend, just let them grow, and prune off the ends of shoots etc. when they really have grown.

Fish tank management is like triage in first aid, if you continually rip off the bandages? Your "patient" never heals.

Cheers Darrel

 

[maverick786us]

Hi all,

I'm not trying to be funny, but why?

Healthy growing plants are your friend, just let them grow, and prune off the ends of shoots etc. when they really have grown.

Fish tank management is like triage in first aid, if you continually rip off the bandages? Your "patient" never heals.

Cheers Darrel

I made the mistake of planting too many of those plants on the river. I wasn't aware that these plants grow so fast, It spread all over the river spoiling the natural artistic look in the foreground. I felt bad, but it was acting like an invasive species. I replanted some of those in the background in such a way that the they grow, they fold themself on the driftwood. Rest of those plants I planted in my 55 gallon tank