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It does wear out eventually, but hopefully you do a water change before that happens! The chemistry behind it isn't intuitive - different chemicals have different buffering capacity, that is, they'll hold the pH at a certain level until they are used up, then the pH drops away. A higher KH doesn't n...

You can use aragonite or a media bag of crushed coral in your filter, but then it is an unknown as to how much will leach into the water. This can be problematic for some situations, for example if you are trying to breed it can prevent some fish species eggs from hatching. Generally I think doing w...

Even worse, I am in Australia so heat is a real concern for me. I did a test with some fittings I found and a 650L/h hang on filter but I don't think the flow was very good. My first impression was that the filter sponge was too fine and was clogging too fast and impeding the flow, so I made new spo...

I have been doing some reading and came across some info regarding issues with heat transfer from power heads when trying to set up a hillstream tank. Someone came up with the idea of using a modified hang on filter to keep the motor outside of the tank and transfer less heat - their idea was to blo...

Thanks for this advice! I've really been on the fence about it, and I'd rather have happy fish than conflicts so I won't mix hillstreams in with my yoyos. With six of them they tend to leave the other fish alone but they do still have some growing to do and I don't know how well behaved they will re...

If you have any medicated food you might be better off worming them that way. Something I heard with new loaches was to keep an eye on them for ich too. I have six yoyos and I love them a lot, I've been very fortunate to have not had issues with them yet.

I've been looking at getting some hillstream loaches, specifically pseudogastromyzon myersi as every other sucker-type loach seems to be forbidden for import to Australia. I have an established planted 4' long tank with 9 thayeria boehlkei , 10+ peacock gudgeons and 6 yoyo loaches which I would like...