My filter keeps s**k my smaller fish onto it.....

[McLaaud]

My filter keeps s**k my smaller fish onto it... should I hide it with rocks?
if so... how will it filter the nasty stuff out of the water that gets blocked by the rocks?

[beautfulmine]

[t_chelle16]

Try putting either a sponge pre-filter on the intake or some pantyhose works good too.

-Chelle

[J_acon]

WOW that's a HUGE Avatar, can u make it smaller?

Anyway, about the filter, put a sponge around the intake.

[McLaaud]

Is that going to let all of the $#!+ get filtered out of the tank? (the sponge idea)

10 gallon tank
Bio filter (with the wheel)
small mollies
any more questions??

[ceveretts]

I did it with my tank a while ago because my African dwarf frogs were getting s**k on to the filter intake. It worked just fine with the foam around the tube. Fluval makes the perfect shape foam for the tube of an H.O.B. filter I just cut the cyllinder shaped foam in half so the box got me 4 of them. Just make sure to rinse it often and change it frequently.

[OneWolvesDream]

i had the same probolem with my neon tetras. what i did was i used a stocking and i covered the filters basket (the plastic nossle for the water to be s**k into.) abd i left it on there fir about 3 weeks though every day you have to tighten it because it starts to sag. this way it still has a flow but the fish can wain strength againced it and when taking it off slowly lake it off like one day pull 1/4th off than so on

[3_second_memory]

How odd,

I have a jewel rekord 70 aqauarium, and the filter is inbuilt and as my siamese fighter male swims past, his finnage gets s**k in to the filter and he is kinda stuck on there till he makes the effort to de-attach himself!

hehe.