Ralph III - An introduction to the filtering system
© Winston Vaughan Schoenfeld
| Well, my human spent the entire weekend up to his elbows in my tank. This is beginning to become a rather tiresome routine with this guy. For a while there, he left things alone, but NO! He has to mess around with the pumps, tubes and whatnot hanging off the back of the tank. He removes stuff here, puts in stuff here, redirects this, stirs up that... He got this idea see, and he had to try it out, and, yup, he has to use my tank. Why can't he be like other guys and vegetate in front of the TV? I don't really mind though. He is the great dropper of fish food into the tank. He keeps me fat. He keeps my water clean no matter what I do to it. So I bear it in good spirit. |
This time, my human for the most part removed stuff. He yanked out tubes. He yanked out pumps. He yanked out stuff that has been in the tank for years. He then put in a new filter. He's been working on this filter for a couple of months. I thought that he was done building filters for my tank with the last one. He was not being passive with my tank! I suspect that I will see more changes.
The big filter got its media ripped out of it. Some of the media
went into the new filter. The old filter is still there but just
for a while. Thankfully, my human does not make changes in my tank
so fast that my tank cycles to far to keep the critters alive in the tank.
(Just a quick note here...your aquarium is in a state of balance between
the number of nitrifying bacteria, and the various compounds in the water.
If you make drastic changes in the aquarium, the balance that you once
had will quickly become unstable, and the aquarium will take time to adjust.
The key is to make small changes so that your aquarium has time to respond
without large biological changes that may harm the inhabitants. Now,
back to Peter's article).
| More and more the stuff gets cooperative and passive. The new
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