diatom

At least, I think I want to borrow one. My husband's step-father recently acquired a 55 gallon tank. It came fully equipped with AquaSoil as a substrate. We set it up but the water hasn't cleared much at all. We had to add the fish for lack of anywhere else to put them, and they don't...

OK so I have a 75 gallon African cichlid tank that I have been fighting with for months to get clear, it has been cloudy since day 1, my water tests fine, all my fish are fine and have never lost a fish in this tank, I'm running to whisper 60s and recently bought a marineland magnum 350 that I...

I have a Vortex XL Diatom filter that i actually used to use a lot but now I seem to ever pull it out of the cabinets. If you are interested let me know. Ill include about 3/4 a box of diatom powder for it that will last you a long time. Here is info about it...

I wanted to get some opinions on whether using a diatom filter on aquarium water will reduce TDS in my water. I know they used to call diaton filters "water polishers" but I never really understood what that meant. What do you think. Lonny