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I keep a spare filter running on one of my tanks, I think I have extra everything right now..heaters, meds, tanks etc.

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If at first you DO succeed, try not to look astonished.

I keep a few things like air line hoses, but I have a spare filter and a couple of small heaters, just in case.

I have lots of eheim filters- and bearing in mind what happened when a seal went on one of the thermofilters ( some serious flooding ) I tend to order in advance , and keep a variety of seals. I also tend to keep the ceramic pins for the impellors.

Since early treatment of common diseases is essential i tend to keep a range of the interpet meds- not that i find them 100% effective- but they do work better is you use em early- and at about £3.50 a tub you can afford to replace them if they go out of date, and you can afford to have a range. Id probably keep melafix and pima fix if they were more available round here.

For those people that have smaller tanks containing delicate fish its handy to have denitrifying bags if there is a sudden raise in nitrate in the tank , saving you from having to do such radical water changes . Having a spare ph balancer is handy too.

The most useful "spare equipment" by far , especially when you keep a veritable multitude of fish is a small spare tank with a mature filter on it. I have one and it has saved too many lives to count, both acting as a quarantine tank ,segregation tank and breeding tank.


Last edited by longhairedgit at 01-Sep-2005 09:12

i keep spare meds, food, filters, heaters, airpumps, extra airstones, lightbulbs, gravel, rocks, plants, and in the upcomming weeks im gunna have spare water lol but the only thing i need now is extra space lol

I have pretty no spares as I used them up to set up a 20 long the other day.

I promise though that I will get more spares very soon

Does and extra light count as a spare, well then I have at least one

Ingo

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Only the basics...but will buy more spares later

Robby

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I know human beings and fish can co-exist peacefully.

Heaters, filters, air tubes & airstones.


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we have loads of stuff. always prepared for every problem. trouble is most probs we get we still dont have the required parts lol.