This is Serious...Are women's hose safe?

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I'm being serious here.

I need to cover all those little spaces in back of a canopy between the heater and all the other stuff. Usually I end up using a lot of leftover cutouts from other tanks, filter floss, or I butcher an old net.

What about cutting up some women's hose? It is a fine net material and I can replace it each time my wife gets a run. Question, is it safe? :emb:
 
Hi,
Women's nylons were recommended to me to use as a carbon filter at one point also. My LFS was out of my carbon filter for a period of time. They said to use the lose carbon in a pair of nylons. Just another thought.
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I use it to start a new tank by filling a leg with old gravel and filter pad from an established setup and letting it soak for a few days. Just dont let any hang over the side because it will act like a wick and drip water onto the floor...:(
Not the prettiest tank deco out there but it sure jump starts the cycling process.

Rinse thorougly to make absolutely sure they have no soap residue
 
Stay away from mens pantyhose... thats too weird and could cause problems
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And the fish would need years of psychotherapy. :joke:
 
For Snafu....using nylon to help cycle a tank, sounds interesting. So you just place the nylon stuffed with estabished gravel right into the new tank and let it sit there? For how many days? Does doing so eliminate the use of bottoled ammonia for the fishless cycle? Or does the established gravel sac just add on to the regular fishless cycling process? Thanks,
mt_marcy!
 
Originally posted by mt_marcy
For Snafu....using nylon to help cycle a tank, sounds interesting. So you just place the nylon stuffed with estabished gravel right into the new tank and let it sit there? For how many days? Does doing so eliminate the use of bottoled ammonia for the fishless cycle? Or does the established gravel sac just add on to the regular fishless cycling process? Thanks,
mt_marcy!
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You would still need the ammonia, the gravel sac would just contain bacteria. That is a good idea if you have different colors of gravel and don't want to mix them. You would still get the bacteria and once the tank cycled you would remove the sack.

Thanks for the advice.
 
I need to cover all those little spaces in back of a canopy between the heater and all the other stuff. Usually I end up using a lot of leftover cutouts from other tanks, filter floss, or I butcher an old net.
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Try plastic gutter guard,
Gutter guard is to aquariums what duct tape is to a garage.
 
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