bought an Atman canister filter at an offer price costing just rm80.. to my surprised the hoses look identical to eheim and it even came with a plastic lily pipe

a very satisfied purchase, now my tank looks like it has eheim filter heheh

If you do intend to get a nice fish tank and to continue in the hobby, you will definitely need a canister filter. try to get a small eheim 2213 now. It's only rm199 (cause its eheim promotion in all major stores). it's useful because:
1. its easier to get cleaner water (nicer tank) as the flowrate is higher
2. next time if u ever get a bigger tank, the canister filter can be used as well (cost saving in the long run).

i started this hobby about 2 months ago, and i now have a few HOB filter lying around doing nothing because it's not really effective and these relic from my initial investment into hobby turn out to be rather useless. just my 2 cents.

btw, i got myself a 2215 and 2217 from the promotion.. wheee!

@imr4n , agreed with the comment that , No c02 tank , eheim filter also useless..

I myself personally use a lot of eheim filters. And I must say the quality is superb. less problematic than the dolphins i used before. Not to say I am a huge fanboy but the quite accurate rated flowrate does help at times..(especially in hi light hi maintenance tanks)

And the service is good. There was once my one of my eheim failed to prime itself due to power outage and I was overseas. the whole impeller shaft melted due to 2 days worth of churning air and heat. Eheim replaced the entire head for me in a matter of days...

Only spend in it if you can. Not a necessity. Get Necessities first, then upgrades come later..

-more info= Eheim promo price is
2213-rm199
2215-rm299
2217-rm399
I am no way working with eheim or Qian Hu so don't fire me LOL

Drew

How big is your tank again? total literage

i think for a 1.5 ft tank, 2213 is okay.. but since ur spending 200 bucks for a filter.. might as well go straight for 2215 so u can still use it if u upgrade ur tank
CO2 tank is a necessity.. solenoid is not use the money u gonna spend for solenoid on the filter instead
unless ur a super busy person, manual regulator is adequate just that u have to adjust the bubbles more regularly

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not enuff lights?

All I know the glosso yes covered by algae

Your glosso just like mine.. Growing but didnt thrive... But mine dun have algae.. I used to have same problem but somehow it just.. disappeared...

take that thing out! the thing growing in ur riccia.. one day it will outgrow everything and it will be worst than algae.
with good co2 and light few hours i guess

This was the condition of my tank when I loss my 30 RCS to the rasboras...   Algae plague and the stunted growth of my plants... 


You can see the 'predators' responsible for my loss in the shadow of the driftwood...

Well... First, I found out that my plants were having stunted growth and turning yellowish was because I stopped dosing fertilizer since the algae attack occured. So I restarted my dosing regime...

Second, for the algae problem, I used to have ottos cleaning it up for me but they died and living in Kuala Terengganu I could only get them when I go back to KL. So instead, I bought RCS and had them posted to my place as my new algae cleaning crew. Cause for whatever reason, the ottos will die every 4 - 5 months, I don't know why.

Third, I restarted injecting Co2 by using DIY yeast method and it helped a lot also to control the algae and help the plant growth.

Fourth, I also decreased my lighting period from 13 hours a day to 11 hours a day and put the timer according to the sun. Cause I used to have the light on at 10 am and off at 11 pm. So then it was 9 am to 8 pm.

This is what I did to recover, it'll be different on different tanks. So you can modify it according to your tank...

Hope it helps...