Subj : Re: The Mystery Almost Solved
To   : Michael Grant
From : Jeff Snyder
Date : Sun Jul 05 2009 08:47 pm

On 07/05/09, Jeff Snyder quoted Michael Grant: The Mystery Almost
Solved.

MG> I have the canister filter set up at the front left, and I used to have a
MG> secondary side-mount filter at the rear right, but the impeller broke. The
MG> combination seemed to work quite well before, so I need to get a
MG> replacement for the second filter. I've been thinking alternatively about
MG> using one or two submersible filters.


I don't know if you'd be interested in doing this or not, or even if it is
possible with the type of hang-on filter that you are using, but after I
lost a number of impellers due to sand getting lodged in the impeller
housing, and stripping the plastic from the impeller, I got smart and
totally removed the impeller, and unplugged the unit. Instead of using an
impeller to suck up water through the lift tube part of the filter, I have
attached a Penguin 1140 powerhead to each of my Penguin 330 Bio-Wheel
filters, so that instead of water being sucked up by the impeller, it is in
fact pushed up from the strainer end of the filter.

In other words, the outflow part of the powerhead is connected directly to
the intake of the filter's lift tube with a short rubber hose -- which is
totally invisible -- while the strainer piece which normally connects to the
end of the filter's lift tube, is connected to the intake of the powerhead.
This prevents sand from clogging the impeller in the filter, being as there
is no impeller there to begin with. If you are familiar with Penguin
filters, then you'll know what I am talking about.

MG> Cichlids also do well here in Alberta because our water is hard, which is
MG> what they prefer.


I wasn't aware of the fact that water is hard in your part of the world. Where
I lived as a kid in the Eastern USA, it was relatively soft and acidic, as I
recall. But that was many years ago, so I could be wrong.

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