elettrone
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- 22 Feb 2013
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Hi everyone, i recently bought this new tank, the Juwel RIO 180 and filled it with fertilizer, polychrome substrate, plants and such then started the filtering system to clean the water as i noticed i didnt wash it as well as i tought.
As a matter of fact the water was kinda brownish after the tank was filled up.
I removed from the filtering system the nitrax and the carbon sponge adding some synthetic wool for extra filtration leaving the rest as it was.
Problem is that after 8 days and several sponge washings the water wouldn't clean up as if the filtering system wasn't doing it's job.
The water flow going into the upper section of the filter isn't just enough to allow the wool to rertain the dirt particles in the water and i't looking stagnant.
It's like the filter doesn't suck enough water from the upper section...while the outgoing flow remains pretty strong(this puzzles me), maybe only the bottom section of the filter is flowing correctly...
I'm desperate as i have so many suspended particles in water it is starting to compromise plant's health...any hint as where might be the problem?
As a matter of fact the water was kinda brownish after the tank was filled up.
I removed from the filtering system the nitrax and the carbon sponge adding some synthetic wool for extra filtration leaving the rest as it was.
Problem is that after 8 days and several sponge washings the water wouldn't clean up as if the filtering system wasn't doing it's job.
The water flow going into the upper section of the filter isn't just enough to allow the wool to rertain the dirt particles in the water and i't looking stagnant.
It's like the filter doesn't suck enough water from the upper section...while the outgoing flow remains pretty strong(this puzzles me), maybe only the bottom section of the filter is flowing correctly...
I'm desperate as i have so many suspended particles in water it is starting to compromise plant's health...any hint as where might be the problem?