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There are a pair of Botia kubotai in my GF's tank which fight nearly constantly. There are 5 of them all together and it's two of the larger fish who are doing it. They're housed in a river manifold 55gallon tank and their only other tank mates are a small school of Zebra/Leopard danios. There are ...

I'll buy a block of the stuff you linked and see about giving that a try. Adding a filter block to the "upstream" side of the tank would somewhat defeat the purpose of the river manifold, I also don't have AquaClear power heads. The King heads I have are threaded for 1/2" NPT for both in and output ...

The pumps themselves aren't stream/prop type pumps but good old fashioned submersible impeller style pond pumps (King 2A is a high-output pump based on an improved version of the Rio).

I've seen those big foam blocks used around here before, though I'm not sure where to find them.

Is there ...

I'm not sure what you mean exactly.

These are what the sponges look like
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They're run almost up to the glass in the tank. If you need a shot of the tank and what's happening to them there I'll be happy to post up that too ...

So we set up a river tank around the middle of January this year for my GF's Burmese Boarder Botias and Zebra/Leopard Danios. All was going well, we hooked the whole thing up and decided to try the locally available Pre-Filter sponges from Lustar which were rated for filters up to 40gallons. On the ...