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Hey i just bought a new pengiun 125 for my tank. The problem is the current. Sinces its new its busting out at full strenth. Is the something i can do to disrupt the current and break the bubbles that come into the aquarium. Thanks

matt

im not sure but you should be able to lift the intake tube up slightly to slow it down till it matures. really just want the biowheel to water log some, then it acts like a damn.

you could also remove the biowheel and let float in the tank for a couple weeks. it will water down there also. it just wont help your biological filtration for those 2 weeks.

last suggestion, decor, place whatever ya got infrotn of the over flow. plants, drift wood, very large something or rather. it will break the current and cause it to go in every direction.

raise your water level higher, the water will have less place to travel, and then it will have less current.

I have the same filter and as you can imagine, my betta girls were uncomfortable with the current. What I did was to take a rubberband and snap it around the outflow (you have to slip it around the intake tube as well) and buy some cheap filter foam. Cut a piece to fit the size of the outflow and stick it under the rubberband. Voila... insta-current reduction.

Hang on *runs for digicam* lemme see if I can get a decent pic.



The whole arrangement is completely hidden by the light strip, so you can't see the modifications (which aren't terribly artistic). The rubberband does snap every so often, so it needs to be replaced when it does, but the filter foam is easily rinsed out (and it will collect a bit of algae).

The nice thing is that this arrangement doesn't decrease the filter's power, it just spreads out the outflow so that the current is muchly decreased. I've had my filter for about a year and I still have that foam in... I find the biowheel creates too much surface current and it blows my poor girls all over the place. They still like to play BELOW the filter in the current, but they like it much better with the foam there. Believe me, they pout when the rubberband breaks and the foam falls off.

Oh, and you'll have to cut a slightly deeper piece out of the lid, otherwise the water will splash up over it. Or, at least it did with my glass top. [/font]

Last edited by Kitten at 31-Dec-2004 10:12

~Meow. Thus spoke the cat.~

As the bio wheel ages and accumulates colonies of bacteria the bio wheel will slow down and so will the output.

--garyroland.

Yes, the wheel WILL slow down... however, I still found the surface movement was too much for my girls. *shrugs* This works as a temporary or more permanent arrangement. Of course, I've hung the 125 on a 20 gallon long... perhaps it's a bit overfiltered?

~Meow. Thus spoke the cat.~

is that a tricky photo or is your fiter pad in backwards?

You can use half of the mid section of a soda bottle over the intake acts as like a slide for the water usually making it hit the back wall of the aquarium. I'd link you if I remembered where the DIY was

"is that a tricky photo or is your fiter pad in backwards? "

I hope that cartridge is in properly. Because that's the way I've always had mine. Foam towards the back, plastic towards the bio-wheel, correct?

yea, you're right t/a

Thanks kitten im definitly going to try that idea looks kinda tacky but who looks back there any way. Thank you so much for the advice.





-=-fish1

Well, that's my twenty gallon long, which is the top shelf of a duel stand (ten on the bottom). It has a glass top with a light strip over it and unless I pull the top/strip forward like I did for the picture, you can't see the sponge. Well... maybe if you're taller than my short lil 5'6" you could, but I can't!

~Meow. Thus spoke the cat.~

so is your filter pad in backwards or not?

Uh... the blue pad is towards the back with the black plastic towards the front. If you turn it around, the pad catches on the biowheel and it won't turn. *shrugs* I haven't checked the directions since you mentioned it, but this way makes sense to me...

~Meow. Thus spoke the cat.~

yea, that's right.. it looked backwards tho

, looked right to me tim. Any way thanks for your help kitten i appreciate it.


==fish1