Black Convict Care - Cichlid Guide & Tank Mates. I always feed my black convicts the omega one cichlid brand of food. It's a high quality food and they do very well on it.

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I need serious help! My water change this morning became a disaster. Now my filter started making this noise. I took it off cleaned and rinsed the motor and inside thinking it was sand. Then put it on and it didn’t work so I did it twice and nothing. It doesn’t look worn either. I have to goto Work so I’m going to have to leave it off for now. any suggestions?!?

Even if I buy a brand new one u think I’ll still have the same issue? I have my 70 running for now I don’t trust leaving the filter on like this while I goto work. How do you all prime that after a change? I always have trouble. Turn the filter tube to the right to the lowest flow setting and make sure filter is full. If you are trying to prime with it on full blast it will take twice as long.

I keep a few impellers and shafts on hand I would replace both but u can look and tell what's bad they will have grooves in them. And use something like this heard Vaseline isn't good for that forgot y but u can Google that. I’m going to go get a new one and in the mean time I’ll try to lube it up when I get home. Thank u guys for all the help.

Also check the piece that the intake tube slides on sometimes the impeller makes contact with it and causes that sound. Also I notice that you might have the media section over packed. Notice water flowing over the top bypassing all stages of filtration. I also use a syringe to rinse off the section inside (impeller) the motor when it makes that noise.

Yeah I use a toothpick to apply Vaseline to the metal spindle the impeller shaft ride on. Small amounts don’t do anything detrimental, just don’t gob it down in there as the rubber will deteriorate....

Q-tip to clear the debris in impeller housing best you can first, filters fine, just sand gets in it and makes it grind, as the sand is stuck down in the magnets field, so it will be sporadic in noise making. Sometime too the rubber bushing in the Hagen motors wear and the shaft will get some play causing to grind like this, but non stop. They sell impellers and the motor. Been using AC filters since like 2006-7...lol one I have had been through 2 motors, and original case, basket and intake.

I left it off and I have my 70 running for now when I get home I will try the Vaseline and I will double check everything and take everybody suggestions I appreciate the help I’m going to buy a spare if all else fails.

Black convict care. Cichlids are great fish. it should work its self out ina day or so of not gunna have to take the intake apart and rinse the inpeller out and stuff. happened to mine when sans got in it. If it's the same impeller that the filter came with and it's been running for several years you can just go to your local fish shop and they can order you one or you can go online and have one shipped directly to your house I run tons of these and do it all the time.

What are you using for substrate sand ? Cause mine has been doing that and then it stops ,then I take the motor off and clean it out. I tried taking this out of my 110 wasn’t going. My 70 with no issues then someone told me it doesn’t come out of the 110 ? One of my filter never starts after a waterchange. I usually have to turn it on and take a long tool to make the impeller spin. Once it spins once it will stay running. I have 2x 90gallon filtrrd on a 75gallon tank. So I haven't worried about replacing it.

yeah pretty easy to breed if you know what you are doing. they are pretty good parents, although some can be bad parents especially first timers, they are pretty protective of the fry. condition them well with frozen and live foods, and provide some smooth flat stones for them, they prefer to lay their eggs on them, if not the male will make a little ditch out of gravel to lay them in.

Always perfect ammonia level 0 my fish are happy but I still check it every two weeks. My levels have been perfect my fish love me LOL..0 nitrites minimum nitrates. 7.0 pH. Water change every 3 weeks have a great night my fishy friends LOL

Hiya just wondering what size of tank would you guys recommend for 4-6 full grown oranda?
I love watching them in pet shops and find them really great for my anxiety so my boyfriend has set up a 100ltr tank up for me and we've got it cycling and he's said I can either get a few baby orandas or a fish sorority.

I know I will obviously have to upgrade the tank size if I get the orandas though just wondering how big I'd need to go for full grown since we've got a really small house I may have to get the bettas if I can't get a big enough tank for orandas

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