Gumbie

It took me many hours to plow through this very “exciting” filtration thread. Most of it was over my head, but I read to the last post. I then sat down in front of my tanks and studied the way the plants swayed, how the fish chased the food around, how the bubbles from the HOB moved through the tank, and what appeared to be dead zones. I’ve had no problems with fish, plants, algae. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it?

UPS says my new Eheim Classic cannister filter will arrive tomorrow. I think it may have been subliminal messages.

fishyjoe24

have fun with the eheim I heard the are number#1 in the market, i just got a used one for have yet to set it up. yep this tread has helped me out a lot.

Nirosh

You talk about filters.. I talk about an out side, 3000 ltr tank, that runs with a 5 W motor and a sponge filter.. You cannot believe it..

Then have a look..

Low-tech natural self sufficient planted aquarium

digital_gods

I've recently added natural filters to a few of my tanks. Yellow sandshell mussels. I don't know how well they do at filtering but it's interesting to have in the tank. They like to travel to different parts of the tanks.

Tex Gal

That is pretty incredible. There is no algae to speak of either. ...And he doesn't even feed the fish! There must be enough bugs to sustain them. He did have some live bearers in there so that is one source of food. Pretty amazing!

flashbang009

That mussel idea is interesting. I'd be interested in hearing more about it!

digital_gods

They don't pull out the Nitrites/Nitrates but what they do is clear out the partials of the water. They do require a balance of bioload and plants to help keep the nitrates low. One of my tanks(one shown) bioload was to heavy for them to survive. I found them all dead this week in that particular tank. When one dies, it can quickly foul up the water and cause nitrite/nitrate spike which will kill the rest in your tank. This tank had a HOB filter on it. The other tanks all have canister filters on them which keeps the tanks clean and water moving.

abdb

Sorry to dig up an old thread, but I just joined the site. In case someone is still looking for the English version, it's here:

http://en.aquanet.tv/Video/205-takas...-chris-lukhaup

I can't explain the t-shirt, but they have a lot of very informative videos in English if you have the time to kill (click on the videos link on that page).

In case you want to see Amano's home tank they talk about in the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO-XM...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE9Dr...eature=related

Thanks Niko for the informative thread. This site has been invaluable for me getting started in the hobby.

OTPT

Took ages to load. So I let it load until finish, expecting I could replay it smoothly like youtube.
But it did the reloading all over again. So, no thanks.

fishyjoe24

load right up for me.