In December I set up a 29-gal native fish tank at a school. Tank houses
about 25 fish (minnows, madtoms, darters, sunfishes) and is enthusiastically
fed twice daily by 5th and 6th graders. Water is clear, pH neutral, and
fish happy. The only filtration is a plate-type UGF.
For an aquarium in a public setting, UGFs are nice because they are low
maintenance and it is obvious when they are not working (and the problem is
often easily corrected). For non-aquarists, getting siphons started,
remembering to change media, and noticing if the filter has stopped running
(and correcting the problem) can seem challenging.
-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Stallsmith
Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 7:59 AM
To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
Subject: Re: NANFA-- Local Park Aquarium
I would agree with Martin the Moore, esp. on the biowheel filters. I have
two of them now, one on a 10 gal. and one on a 30 gal., and they are very
efficient at keeping the water clean.
--Bruce Stallsmith
Huntsville, AL
>Quoth Wade Hedgren regarding NANFA-- Local Park Aquarium:
>
> >
> > Right now they have a UGF with 2 powerheads as the only filtration.
> > So... I would like to open up the debate again... "to UGF or to not
> > UGF".
>
>Sh*t-can the UGF. I abandoned these years back because you
>cannot use enriched substrata (conducive to plant growth) with a
>UGF. Also, fry tend to get sucked under the plates. And they're
>just plain ugly. For small tanks I use Penguin filters with biowheels.
>For large tanks (55gal +) go with fluidized bed.
>
>
>
>
>Prost,
>
>Martin
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