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?

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I live in a rented property and I keep my birds in the spare room. I went to clean the walls the other day as all sorts can get splattered on them and as it turns out, the paint is water soluble so it just came off on the sponge. Is there anyway I can get this cleaned without taking off any more paint? Repainting would be an option, but it would be a pain seeing as I have no colour match! Thanks.

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Hey there, I’m using a fiber based sediment filter (its not a candle filter) to filter water before boiling. The thing is 6 months old and I called in the company to service it (The water started to have a brown tinge and off taste). While servicing I had the option to purchase a new fiber filter but I declined because the fiber filter did not look that dirty. The technician cleaned the filter by rubbing the fibers with a screw driver so I offered him a rough sponge. That sponge was used just once before to clean a new plastic stool/chair. Now the thing is, that sponge did previously have powdered laundry detergent on it to clean the stool. The same sponge was used two hours later to clean the fibers in the white fiber water filter. If the fibers of the white fiber filter did get mildly contaminated with the powdered laundry detergent, What Irritable symptoms would I be facing? P.S if ya do have a sediment filter with white fibers, do not boil to sterilize, the fibers tear off.

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I just need to know how often to change the filter cartridge. I know not to remove the carbon part of the filter. I have a filter that uses two cartridges at a time and therefore has two streams of water coming out from it. I have heard that you need to change it every month but I was just looking for a definite answer. will pick best answer.
sorry I don’t think I mean carbon, I am talking about the sponge looking thing that is made of black stringy material.

I just got my name from a Devin the Dude song. its classic.

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i have a 35l tank with 2 goldfish and 5 minnows in it. my 3 year old has put shower gel onto the filter sponge i have cleened it off in hot water but the tank now smells of shower gell and the goldfish seem to be suffering the most their dorsol fins are down and one is sitting at the bottom of the tank. i have done a 50% water change.

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My 1-gallon betta aquarium’s water has been looking greenish-tinged and a little more opaque than water should be. I’ve had it for about 5 months and so far have just tried doing water changes – changed half the water, and that only helped just a little. There is a bit of algae growth, not what I would call really bad, and in among the rocks there is a bit of debris. Also the bubbler tube isn’t making bubbles as much as it was when I first set it up about 5 months ago. Do I need to replace the little sponge-like bubblemaker (you know the thing that hooks up to the air tube and the bubbles come out of it and rise up from under the gravel)?

My husband is FREAKING OUT about the tank because it’s not pure clear water. I’m not as concerned about it, as I think a certain amount of algae and stuff is normal, but I would like to know what may be done to get clearer-looking water if possible.
The walls of the tank do not have an algae film on them, the water just looks slightly discolored and the rocks on the bottom have some green on them.

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