Vallisneria

No, I checked for cracks and everything looks good. Haven't dropped it and I'm super careful when cleaning and taking it apart. The part where the hoses connect to the connector piece looks good too, they are sealed onto it pretty good. I'm thinking the part thats causing the leak is the connector piece that fits into the lid. Water fills up in there and goes into the lid part When I flick the switch to turn the hoses on.

Hey, So this morning I checked my tanks only to find that 2" of water had drained out of my 56g. Yesterday I cleaned it and cleaned out my ehiem canister filter too. When I was setting up the canister again I noticed a bit of a air squeeling sounds when it started back up(not just the regular air wooshing noises) but it soon went quiet and was running normally. This morning I come to find that it was leaking all night and made a lovely mess of my hardwood.

Today I've been fiddling with it for over an hour and still can't get it working right. I think I've narrowed it down to where the hoses connect at the top of the filter. The lid is filling up with water because the hoses aren't sealing right. I can also hear a high pitched air leak coming from there when I try to prime the filter. The filter box will also only fill to about 1" from the top, so there is a air gap/leak.

I've tried take out and putting back the hoses a few times and it does nothing. Even pressing on the hose connection doesn't stop the air leak(the squealy air noise its making). And as soon as I turn the hoses on the lid fills up with water and leaks out. I've checked the seals and the O rings look ok, still soft and clean.

So does anyone have any suggestions on what I can try. I'm about ready to smash this stupid filter. I had something similar happen to my Xp3. Thats why I got rid of that one and bought this Eheim as it wasn't supposed to happen with Eheims. :cuss: Anyway to get the hose connection to seal better?

I cull my shrimp all the time...though I let them go through several molts first to make sure they're not going to change (I assume that they do). When my orange shrimp breed, sometimes i'll get a few red ones in there...so they get to go to a cull tank...just to see what they turn into if they're going to change at all.

I agree, I also cull my shrimp all the time. I want to keep them looking nice with solid colors. I also keep Orange shrimp and sometimes you get a couple red or off color shrimp. I don't want to leave those in there to mix with the nice bright orange ones and mess up future generations coloring. So I just scoop them out and add them to my other tanks or use them as live food. I also do it with my cherries. Any ones that aren't red or males that are all clear, I remove.

If you just leave everyone in there to mix together you'll dilute the nice coloring of your shrimp. You don't have to kill them, just remove them from your breeding colony to another tank.

My crs multiply in all my tanks with bristlenoses, pekoltia brevis, guppies, swordtails (mayae and alvarez species), columbian tetras and serpae tetras. A twenty gallon tank with only crs in it and a few plants (they seem to need plants) will produce many shrimp very quickly. I feed them zuchinni and powdered fish food.

Art, are you talking about Crystal Red shrimp(CRS) or cherry shrimp?

I've killed about 150$ worth of CRS/CBS trying :boxed:

They're THAT finicky hey? Damn that's no good. I guess I could always top the tank up with distilled water from Walmart.

I believe there are some people here in Edmonton that are keeping them in edmonton tap, not sure about breeding. I just haven't had any luck, even with acclimating slowly.

I've killed about 150$ worth of CRS/CBS trying :boxed:

There might be some at the auction on Sunday

I would stop messing with the water parameters. That usually causes more issues then it helps. The shrimp should be able to handle Edmonton tap water, they just need to get used to it if they were raised in soft ph 6.5-7.

Do small water changes, add a bunch more plant clippings and let them settle in. Moving them around more will just make the problem worse.

I agree with Jason about adding more plants. Not sure if its just their ability to keep the water cleaner, or provide food for the shrimp(critters that grow on them, or that the shrimp just feel more secure and less stressed in them but in all my shrimp tanks I find they do much better if they are heavily planted. I keep my shrimp breeding tanks bare bottom with TONS of naja grass and elodea filling them.

Think you may be on to something there . I was told a ph of 6.5 to7 and TSS of 100 to150. So the difference between locations could be it.

Yeah, if they went from ph 6.5-7 TSS of 100-150 and then you put them straight into Edmonton tap that would be enough of a shock to kill them. Even if you slowly drip acclimate(over say 12-24hrs) them you still might have some die.

Thats why I try to buy them from a store or person that has already acclimated them to edmonton water(or similar parameters). Let them take the losses :P

The only shrimp I've had problems keeping in tap water were the Crystal reds and blacks. I've kept orange,yellow, green, blue, cherry, tigers(the regular plain tigers, not the fancy OEBT or anything) and macros in regular tap just fine.

Where did you buy them from? Maybe the tigers you bought were in different parameters and the change to tap is whats causing the problem.

I would say the issue is more that your tank isn't established. If all you did to cycle was add the Tetra Safestart, then wait a week before adding any shrimp, your tank is still cycling. Have you tested your ammonia, nitrtie, nitrates? Shrimp do best in an established stable tank, so at the beginning you might have some die.

Hmm I've got said red claw macros, not sure why you'd say they were not friendly <shrug>.

Mine hid all the time. It never came out of its cave unless it was to get food and even then he was very skittish and would shoot right back into his hide spots. I didn't mean unfriendly as in he attacked tankmates. Mine lived with some Kribs and they both left each other alone, I just never saw him.

Not sure if its the largest out there but I had a Red claw shrimp(Macrobrachium sp.) Its body was about 3" with its arms much longer. It wasn't very friendly and I barely ever saw it.

edit: Here is an old thread about my shrimp with some pics of it http://albertaaquatica.com/index.php?showtopic=16714&hl=macrobrachium#entry2138494

My BN plecos weren't breeding but I kept them in with my cherry shrimp colony and they got along fine. The cherry shrimp bred like rabbits and I never saw any issues with the plecos. It should be fine, especially in a 20-30g planted tank.

I would just keep doing water changes and keep the water as clean as possible. Should be able to heal on its own.

If you don't have a QT tank then just do lots of water changes on the main tank. Keep the water super clean and hopefully he can heal. Does the eyeball look damaged? Was this a injury that got infected?

I've had some problems with the milwaukee system. The solenoid stopped working properly and replacing that part was HELL to get it back together and working again. Had it only 1 1/2 years when it broke. Its still an ok regulator for its price and I still use it now that its fixed.

Sorry I don't know where you would buy that other equipment all I've seen around the LFS is the milwaukee regulators. Ebay will probably be the cheapest. I know when I was looking for my replacement solenoid it was 30$ cheaper off ebay, same with some of the needle valves, bubble counters I've bought over the years.

When the site first started the site we allowed auctions and it didn't really work. Thats how we came to create the B/S rules we have now that include "No auctions. Period." It created fighting, people backing out of deals, etc and lots more complaints.

I think the only way to do auctions would be if we used an actual auction program something similar to aquabid. But if thats the case just post a link to your aquabid auction.

It has something to do with the size of the word, anything less then 4 letters doesn't work. Makes searching for threads about things like Ich impossible.

Hopefully Tanker see this and can maybe change it, if it can be changed.

Probably a weird ph test as Edmonton water is always around 7.8-8.0. What kind of ph kit are you using?

What part of Edmonton are you in that gets 7.0ph out of the tap? I've always tested 7.8-8.0(according to epcor thats always the ph too) and pretty hard, prefect for africans right out of the tap.

Does anyone going to the meeting have any spare Vallisneria? I'd buy a bag off you or trade for some orange shrimp

I've used smaller BN plecos, shrimp, otos, and zebra snails before.

I loved my Rainbow cichlids when I kept them. Great little cichlids for a planted tank. Get ready to be over run with babies!

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