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    Default My Hobby, My Story Contest Thread

    Wasn’t even going to try after seeing the competition here, but my word is good so here is a pic of my 125 gal tank with my Discus from Kenny received on 9/25/16 & 10/24/16. I looked one day and was surprised to realize that I’d had them 2 yrs. I apparently didn’t have my reading glasses on (the 9 looked like a 4). Turns out I have time to plan a party complete with worm cake now.
    I grew them up in a 75 gal and recently moved them into their new home. I’m also experimenting with the Anoxic Filtration System. I’m not getting the great results others are reporting however- with or without my readers.

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    Patty, this is your story. The tank and fish look great. Looking forward to hearing and seeing more of your tank and fish.
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    I can't see the pics. (?)
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    Default Re: My Hobby, My Story Contest Thread

    me neither...

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    Me neither, I'm looking into it. Must be a gremlin. Can you repost the pics Patty?
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    Thanks Patty! I see them fine now. I'm trying to trouble shoot whats going on.

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    My goodness, that's one clean but very pretty tank! Love the blues

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    The tank is so clear and they are very pretty 🙂👌🏻👌🏻

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    Patty you shamed me into wiping the glass down on all my tanks!

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    Can we please talk about your filtration and see some pics of it. Very impressive!

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    I appreciate all the compliments on how clean my tank is, but I’ve been stumped because in spite of my cleaning regime, my 125 tank is driving me batty! Why? Because when I do a wc, I see all this crap in the water column. I clean my filters, my glass, my water storage containers. I learned how to clean the bulkheads, but still all this crap when I fill refill the tank.
    So, while doing a wc last night, I tap the syphon hose on the intake filter( the only place I haven’t cleaned. It’s a small panel that takes the dirty water out on each corner of the overflow and what do I see? Crud! That’s where the crap is coming from. I will show you in a video tomorrow. This is my first overflow type tank and though it looks great for a see through tank, it’s been my Achilles heal as far as discus keeping. I have a fish in a hospital tank I’m trying to save and I couldn’t figure out why she got sick. Now I know, that’s great, but what now?

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    I found an old thread I’d posted on how to clean the hoses and I’m going to do it. I couldn’t get my husbands help before and was afraid to do it by myself. It was a baby step cleaning the bulkheads. Another baby step here. One dryer vent brush added to my to do list today. Then it’s good bye and good riddance crud!

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    Hi Patty! Your tank looks great!

    I had the same issue since I have a corner flow tank too. I had a problem with my sump hoses leaking and hired an aquarium maintenance guy to fix it last year. At the time I asked him to pull the tubes out so I could clean them. He thought I was nuts. Said my tank was too clean. No such thing. I humored him and told him it was ocd. I completely get your frustration. You spend time putting clean water in....then turn on the pump to see garbage flying out of the return back into your clean tank! Ahhhhh!!!! It was great for a long time but is just starting to gunk up again. It scares me to pull on those tubes though. I am always visualizing cracking the tube, tank or something else that can’t be fixed in a timely manor. It’s tough to get brushes in them too..
    It’s good to see them all happy and bright. Throw that pic out to Kenny. He’d love to see it.
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    I'm glad you found the problem. I can understand how it was driving you batty.
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