And how do I get rid of it?
help what is this on top of my water.
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And how do I get rid of it?
Whats a good one that you recommend? Its really ugly lol
...Oh, and back about a month ago when I was having all the trouble with tank lights and an undiscovered voltage leak, I had this thick, mutant surface crude that even the surface skimmer of my Prizm could not break up. I took a wisk and had to wisk the surface of the tank for about 2 minutes just so all the crude would flow into the skimmer....
If you do this, make sure you've properly scared the fish first so they wont come to the surface.
If you do this, make sure you've properly scared the fish first so they wont come to the surface.
I've got that aqua c HOB skimmer, thats the pump there in the picture.
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U got protein! YOu need a surface skimmer or at least a a power head to disturb the surface to get it back into solution so that it can be skimmed out. A good idea to get the surface broken to get the co2 out of the water.
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What are you guys feeding your fish? I made my own food once, that was high in oil due to the salmon i put in the food. I just started feeding them other foods and haven't had the problem since. Switched to a combination of flake foods, cyclopese, and arctipods. Good luck.
mixture as of today, of pellet and frozen shrimp
The best thng I have found so far to remove surface film is the surface fed filter made by Tunze. It mounts inside the tank and has a slot that the surface water flows into, then over filter floss and a bag of carbon and then down to the pump. It flows about 210 GPH.
It will clear the surface of my 30 in about a minute. It doesn't leave enopugh surface film to even form so much as a bubble against the glass on the surface.
If you can work it into your setup, I'm pretty sure that you'd be impressed with it.
I used to do my water changes by lying a specimen cup on its side and slowly lowering it into the water to pull the surface film into the cup so I could remove it. It helped a lot. Good luck.
It will clear the surface of my 30 in about a minute. It doesn't leave enopugh surface film to even form so much as a bubble against the glass on the surface.
If you can work it into your setup, I'm pretty sure that you'd be impressed with it.
I used to do my water changes by lying a specimen cup on its side and slowly lowering it into the water to pull the surface film into the cup so I could remove it. It helped a lot. Good luck.
If anyone is interested, I can post a quick fix for surface film that will work with most any HOB filter, using only a gravel cleaner (vacuum) tube and a pair of scissors..... Takes 5 minutes to make, but would take me 30 minutes of typing to explain. If interested post here, I'll explain it in a new thread.
dakota im still intrested.
