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Hi! I am trying to figure out how to load filter media into my HOB Aquatop Forza filter. I've watched tons of videos and they seem to load horizontally with the sponge on the bottom, floss and ceramics at the top. However the premade filter was vertical. Another however, there is very little...

Hi there fellow fishfolks! I have a 38 cm cubical tank with Anubias and ferns and river gravels as substrate. There are ember tetras, some lambchop rasboras, two male Endler hybrids and an otocinclus. Currently running a Xinyou xy 2810 sponge filter and a small Jeneca XP 03B HOB filter. I want...

Hey guys, so i had a bunch of java moss left over from my rescape and I have no room to put it anywhere seeing as i have one tank. I want to glue it on to my piece of driftwood but I currently have baby shrimp hiding in it and i cant get them out. Im also not confident that I could find them in...

Hi there! I recently ordered an AquaClear 50 Power Filter HOB to supplement filtration on a 90P heavily planted tank. The HOB was very loose and did not sit properly as the tank is rimless (ADA). It leaned back towards the wall and in no form to safely operate. (1) Does anyone have this...

I just got a new Marina S15 power filter for my 20 gallon setup (that will go along with a sponge filter). I really like it so far, and I can't wait to get it started for my build. The cartragies seem useless, and I don't really want to replace the carbon every month, I'm on a budget! Does...

Hello All! Question for you. I'm looking for a small quiet canister for a Mr. Aqua 12 gallon long tank. i bought the zoomed turtle clean 501 and it was too loud. i was looking at the Finnex Px - 360? is is a good quiet filter. I currently have an AquaClear 30 running on a tank i currently have...

I'm setting up a 20G high tank, planted with all low light plants and some corys, nano shrimp, amano shrimp, snails and maybe a school of rasboras. I was initially considering an AquaClear HOB filtration system, however I was wondering will I need to run a powerhead with this? Can a powerhead...

Hi everyone! I have had my aquarium for about a year now and every time I change the filter pads on my hob when I restart it, it spits out a bunch of debris into the aquarium. I've tried putting nets and filter foam under the output to try to catch some of it but that still doesn't help much. I...

So my have recently started my first planted tank. Mixed up some bomb @ss mineralized topsoil and got a 20gallon tall goin. So now that I finally have a tank full of beautiful plants, I can't help but notice the ugly HOB even more... I have been working on converting and old Aquaclear 200(50)...

Hi, I'm currently setting up a new 20L low tech planted tank. I have an Aquaclear 20 but it didn't seem strong enough for the longer footprint of the tank so I got a second one of the same. Not sure of best placement: one on each side or one on the side and one in the middle to carry on the...

Hi, Can anyone recommend any plants that are suitable to grow emmersed out of the HOB filter? I've seen a few people doing it and really like how it looks, but don't know which aquarium plants or non aquatic plants I can plant in there. Thanks.

I have been looking for new lights for my low tech 10 Gallon tank, and I really want to have the tank open on top. Right now I have a light just sitting on glass I had cut to size. I have been looking at the product below and wonder if it will be too much light. The plants in it now are growing...

I'm on the verge of buying 25 cherry shrimp for my ten gallon but I already have 4 blackphantoms, and one oto in there. I have one aqueon hob (the smallest model I think/ the one that is rated for 10 gallons) and I also have a finnex px-360 canister. the tank is heavily planted, moss,stems,ect...

I have acquired a few tanks and HOB filters, and I got to thinking about ways to improve the filtration efficiency, but I want some opinions. It seems to me the problem with HOB's is that you need to buy the new inserts for each specific filter, and they are also quite small and don't seem like...

Hello, I have a 14g tank with HOB filter. I am using pressurized CO2 with the aquamagic nano diffuser. I have a red Sea drop checker, which is green, but I am wondering if I get "better" diffusion of CO2 by putting the diffuser directly under the HOB intake? Or would this cause the CO2 to...