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Adam.dunkley wrote: Mon Sep 28, 2020 14:40 pm I will move it around later and see how it goes. Thanks mate.

Any ideas with water movement/flow? This algae is killing me
A circulation pump may help.
Also you may be over-feeding the fish, whatever you think is a fine amount then half it. Too many people over-feed their fish.

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Thanks for sharing the filter layout, Stephen, I’m sure this will be really helpful for me too!
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Ye people have also mentioned over feeding. I think Stephen mentioned it in another post a while ago.

I will cut down even more on that. It’s strange because the amount of food is always eaten before it touches the substrate
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So I’ve just done a clean, and modified the filter media, I’ve gone for, from top to bottom.

Poly pad
Carbon pad
Nitrax pad
Coarse
Fine
Carbax
Fine
Fine
(Gap) for water flow
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Adam.dunkley wrote: Mon Sep 28, 2020 19:49 pm So I’ve just done a clean, and modified the filter media, I’ve gone for, from top to bottom.

Poly pad
Carbon pad
Nitrax pad
Coarse
Fine
Carbax
Fine
Fine
(Gap) for water flow
That's almost the default set up. lol

We all know that the sponges/foams should be coarse, then medium and finally fine depending on the water flow.
The Juwel internal filter's water flow is from the top and down.
Therefore from top to bottom should be Coarse>Medium>Fine sponges/foams followed by Biological media and finally Chemical media (carbon etc..).
The Carbax and Carbon pad are both carbon (chemical media).

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I have two big fine sponges in the bottom basket, two big coarse and one half of one that I cut in half (I can't remember why, maybe it was to take the place of the carbon) in the top basket with the polypad on top of them.
I had to keep moving the output pipe until the flow went right around the tank.
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I’m just gunna play around with it. Moving them around until it works for me. Obviously different for everyone. Thanks for the advice and opinions guys. Please move over to my what is this, everywhere topic. Need help getting this tank working perfectly.
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