Bio Spiro the BEST for new tank set-up
I just downsized my three tanks into two - emptied my 20-gallon into my new (slightly used) 55 gallon tank. 2" Flourite and 2" gravel on bottom, nicely mixed up. Left 36 hours with 2 Aqua Clear 50's and 1 LARGE Bio-Wheel filter running to sift out the major cloud of soil. Added 51 ml of Bio-Spira to the tank after adding all the good plants from the old 20-gal. A couple of hours later added all the fish from the 20-gallon tank, except my 4 African dwarf frogs - moved them to the 29-gallon heavily planted tank that doesn't have any blood worm hogs - poor frogs - I had to duel with swords to keep the mollies, platies and algae eaters from beating them to it. The fish in the Bio-Spira tank are happy and healthy. But here is the revelation I discovered today. I bought an Aqua Clear Power Head a while back and never used it. I have been toying with the idea of buying a diatom filter to polish the water. I had this gizmo all along - I just didn't realize it. I just had to buy the Quick Filters (very fine white floss material), which needs to be changed frequently, especially if you're going from tank to tank, polishing the water. Talk about crystal clear. Only takes a couple of hours a week to accomplish this miracle. Saved me tons of money too. :clap: :dance2: P.S. If people are disturbed by the uncontrollable volume of water coming off the bio-wheel, the only fix that a tech support guy told me at Penquin's website is to trim the impeller blades ever so carefully to make them shorter. He even sent me an extra impeller blade in case I over cut. I really helped in reducing heavy water movement into the tank - even with the water level right up to the top. :dance2:
I just downsized my three tanks into two - emptied my 20-gallon into my new (slightly used) 55 gallon tank. 2" Flourite and 2" gravel on bottom, nicely mixed up. Left 36 hours with 2 Aqua Clear 50's and 1 LARGE Bio-Wheel filter running to sift out the major cloud of soil. Added 51 ml of Bio-Spira to the tank after adding all the good plants from the old 20-gal. A couple of hours later added all the fish from the 20-gallon tank, except my 4 African dwarf frogs - moved them to the 29-gallon heavily planted tank that doesn't have any blood worm hogs - poor frogs - I had to duel with swords to keep the mollies, platies and algae eaters from beating them to it. The fish in the Bio-Spira tank are happy and healthy. But here is the revelation I discovered today. I bought an Aqua Clear Power Head a while back and never used it. I have been toying with the idea of buying a diatom filter to polish the water. I had this gizmo all along - I just didn't realize it. I just had to buy the Quick Filters (very fine white floss material), which needs to be changed frequently, especially if you're going from tank to tank, polishing the water. Talk about crystal clear. Only takes a couple of hours a week to accomplish this miracle. Saved me tons of money too. :clap: :dance2: P.S. If people are disturbed by the uncontrollable volume of water coming off the bio-wheel, the only fix that a tech support guy told me at Penquin's website is to trim the impeller blades ever so carefully to make them shorter. He even sent me an extra impeller blade in case I over cut. I really helped in reducing heavy water movement into the tank - even with the water level right up to the top. :dance2:
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