I'm thinking this is due to the horribly hard water from our tap that we use, but my 60 gallon Marineland that houses fancy goldfish gets this nasty white coating all over the backs of the hoods and parts of the HOB filters we're running...and it's impossible to get off. Even when I scrub with scalding hot water and a rag, the appearance of this coating comes right back in seconds. If I take the lids of the HOBs off and let them soak in the sink under hot water, it still doesn't get it off.
Is this from our hard tap water, and is there anything I can use to remove it?
Also -- I'm still having an issue with the media constantly coming up in my AquaClear 110, specifically the right side of the basket, which seems to happen, again, when I don't have the foam block completely and tightly tucked under those "hooks" at the bottom of the media basket. When I do this, it seems to stop the rise of the basket, but it also causes the block to bow in the center, kind of deforming it.
I have the layering in the AquaClear like this:
Top Layer: BioMax packets
Next Layer: Two Seachem Purigen packets
Next Layer: Folded piece of floss
Bottom Layer: Foam block (standard AquaClear/Hagen version)
Is there a certain way the media is supposed to "grab" or sit in the basket? Should the foam block on the bottom "tuck under" those "hooks" or "teeth" in the basket, or should it sit freely with those hooks kind of grabbing it from the middle? Should the other media on top of the block sit freely, or should those also be tucked beneath the hooks?
Someone on this forum told me that the foam block/sponge at the bottom of these AquaClears should NOT be tucked under the hooks and should sit freely, instead being "grabbed" in the middle by the teeth...
Is this true?
Is this from our hard tap water, and is there anything I can use to remove it?
Also -- I'm still having an issue with the media constantly coming up in my AquaClear 110, specifically the right side of the basket, which seems to happen, again, when I don't have the foam block completely and tightly tucked under those "hooks" at the bottom of the media basket. When I do this, it seems to stop the rise of the basket, but it also causes the block to bow in the center, kind of deforming it.
I have the layering in the AquaClear like this:
Top Layer: BioMax packets
Next Layer: Two Seachem Purigen packets
Next Layer: Folded piece of floss
Bottom Layer: Foam block (standard AquaClear/Hagen version)
Is there a certain way the media is supposed to "grab" or sit in the basket? Should the foam block on the bottom "tuck under" those "hooks" or "teeth" in the basket, or should it sit freely with those hooks kind of grabbing it from the middle? Should the other media on top of the block sit freely, or should those also be tucked beneath the hooks?
Someone on this forum told me that the foam block/sponge at the bottom of these AquaClears should NOT be tucked under the hooks and should sit freely, instead being "grabbed" in the middle by the teeth...
Is this true?