What happens if the filter is too strong for the fish?
by Aquaboy on Monday, May 31st, 2010 | 4 Comments
My fish are suffeirng from white spot and i changed the water yesterday and now it is misty i have no sponge in the filter because of the medication (it told me to on the bottle) and now it is misty water i must state that i changed the water yesterday! SO i have put the filter on a strong current is this ok??? the filter is loud!
but is it bad 4 the ifsh if the current is strong?
You could slow the filter down by taking cellophane (or any other soft plastic) and partially covering up the tube where it sucks in water = less water in = less water out
You miss read the label, it told you to take the carbon out not the filter pad. Sometimes filter pads with carbon in them don’t have a way to open them without destroying them and sometimes you can. If no you should destroy one and just put the pad back in. The cloudiness however is most likely the biological filter recycling because you removed the main place where it was besides the gravel and the meds killing off the biological filter. Assuming you have a good sized tank and it was fully cycled the gravel should have enough bio filter in it to make it not have much of an effect. The current makes no difference without the pad. Its not going to hurt or help the fish unless you have a filter that’s way to big for your tank or you have fish that prefer slow or still moving water. If this is the case that’s only gonna add to the stress. Good Luck with your treatment, here’s a good site you should read on ick, it gives you alternative treatment options (salt) which is just as effective as meds, cheaper and wont kill your biological filter.
http://www.badmanstropicalfish.com/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=7aefab613a0d0742de18456fe2d17673&/topic,1285.0.html
the filter needs to be on continually. with most medication carbon has to be taken out of the system. Yes, too strong a current can drown the fish. Some species require lots of flow to breathe, other species require practically no water movement.
If you changed all the water then you may have a bacteria bloom. Either don’t change any water… or completely drain the tank and scrub with bleach or boiled water.
partial changes will just feed the bacteria.
your fish can probably handle the current, and you can reduce the cloudiness with a water change, just add more of the medication at the proper rate for the amount of water you change out. btw if the filter is loud it sometimes means that it’s getting air into the intake rather than just water. sk