Sorry to hear about your pandas. I went through losing them like that, too. Then I stopped losing any until I went away for 2 weeks on vacation. I did everything I could to prep the tank but the automatic feeders (Eheim brand) malfunctioned--not dispensing any food to my goldfish tank and overfeedin...

The exchange went smoothly. It took a long time only because it took me awhile to get a return shipping box the right size--hubby kept forgetting to bring one home from work.

Out of my stock, Corydoras Panda without a doubt. Something about their markings is soothing and hypnotizing to me and mine are so bold and active.

I totally replaced the hoses and scrubbed out all of the fittings. I didn't find any blockages, just a thick buildup of gunk--algae I think. I also made the hoses a wee bit shorter. Whatever, the changes have had the desired results and the Ecco is working beautifully. I also installed the spraybar ...

Can you get your nitrates a bit lower? Mine get a bit twitchy when nitrates climb much over 10. Is your substrate pretty clean? You may need to do a partial gravel vac--don't do the whole tank all at once though because stirring up the mulm too much makes them twitchy, too. Too many organic pollutan...

Oh no, I'm so sorry for your additional losses. I still have my 3 pandas despite having put them through a complete substrate change. I switched from plain gravel to a mix of EcoComplete and fine gravel of the same type but different color as what I was using prior. The sterba and peppered cories li...

Ahhh....time to examine the hoses, then. The filter pads are cleaned or replaced on a regular basis. Judging from all the microscopic but gloppy goop in the impeller chamber, the hoses are probably a little clogged with the same by now, too.

HF, don't know if you're still following this thread, but just wanted to say that I was able to set up one of the 2215's and it is AWESOME. There's a learning curve to setting up and operating the Classic series, but once you set up one and learn the best way to prime it, the rest are easy. The 2215...

Do you by any chance have any significant batches of mushrooms growing on or near your property outdoors? We have one cluster of them that pops up every time we get a good few days of rain this time of year and it's my understanding the spores will look fuzzy webby white if they get growing on indoo...

:oops: Thanks so much, rahendricks. Hopefully all the discussion here will help not only me, but anyone lurking who runs into a similar situation and questions. I'm hoping the return label gets here soon. My goldfish tank is doing fine on the 2213 but I am eager to get the tank fixed up into its fin...

The canister is pretty roughed up, especially compared to my 2213 canister that got dropped and has since been used to store my siphon and gets pulled in and out of storage. Despite that treatment it barely has any scratches on it so I have to wonder what the new filter was put through to make it lo...

Wow, that is WEIRD, all right. If you ever find out what that white stuff is, or even if you don't, please keep me posted on your cory. A few months ago I had an outbreak of some weird webby white stuff in my tank after I introduced some new plants. I had bought the snail-free packaged plants from P...

Tonight when setting up the "good" new 2215 I just received, I was rinsing the sintered glass Eheim Ehfisubstrat Pro media--in my kitchen sink since my husband was using the laundry tub. I've rinsed this stuff before and not gotten dust cloud in the air, but this time a dust cloud did poof...

I had just bought two Eheim 2215's from an online vendor with a good (and earned reputation)--it's NOT DrsFosterSmith, though--I ended up ordering from a closer location because I wanted other stuff only this merchant had. One of the 2215's was definitely new, never been opened. The other one was mi...

As you can see by my updated signature, I ended up ordering two Eheim Classic 2215's. They're not hooked up yet, actually they are not even here yet, but I know I won't be around the forum for awhile so I figured I'd better update my signature now while I'm logged in. LOL--I actually have no way to ...

Yeah, in small quarters the danios would really bother your cories. Cories are sweet and take so much in stride, it would be a shame to subject them to the pushiness of Danios. I've got my tank decorated to where most of the time the cories have places they can go to get away from the stripey barbar...

Yes, you will definitely get there. If I can have a happy stable tank, anyone can! :D I had my share of losses, too, (well documented on this forum) while I was setting up and learning. Each kind of fish you get into will put you up against a new learning curve. Bettas, for example--thought they wou...

My tropical residents haven't been sick in a long time. Their tank is stable. My issues with them were when I first got some of them and yes, when my tank was new and I was trying to get by on a HOB filter too small for the tank and poor choice of debris-trapping substrate (same issues KSUpilot is c...

Oh that's great, I'm glad to hear he's doing better! I've never tried PimaFix before. I may get some of the Pimafix to keep on hand for my goldfish. They seem like they are illness factories. They may not get sick themselves, but it seems like they harbor every kind of opportunistic parasite and bac...

I wanted to add that your tank looks small. My profile is not up to date, but right now the betta is in the 5 gallon tank that the goldfish was in. I simply could not keep him healthy in the 2.5 gallon. It was hard to get proper filtration and aeration going in a tank that small, and contrary to pop...

Eeeks, sounds like Columnaris: http://www.fishyfarmacy.com/articles/columnaris.html Google "Columnaris" for more information. My goldfish seemed to come down with this once during quarantine in their 5 gallon. The tank had been cycled but had lost its bio capacity after I had treated with ...

You know...I just found out that not all of the Classics now come with that internal media basket. Just the 2213. I found out when I was checking out a 2215 in a catalog. That catalog was the only place I'd seen it mentioned that the other models don't come with the internal basket. I'm sorry for th...

Oops...just caught something in my post that made no sense--I asked are they snail eggs that came in on one of your plants. Duh...if they came in on plants then how the heck would they get in on the glass. I MEANT, snail eggs that came from snails that might have sneaked in on some plants. Sorry! Fr...

Yikes! I'm so sorry for your losses. I know how stressful it is. I wish I could identify those things on the glass. Are you sure they are not eggs of some kind? Maybe snail eggs that came in on one of your plants? Red gills could be ammonia or nitrite poisoning, but when my fish had it I think it wa...

I have a longfinned danio and some regular and neon Zebra Danios in with my cories and a cichlid. They are hardy in general, but I did go through losing a few due to some kind of wasting disease they are prone to. At first I thought it was tuberculosis but they never developed any lesions or other s...

LOL, I was asking myself a similar question--would two 2213's be better than one 2215--or one Pro2? I'm looking only at the prices on Drs.FosterSmith's website for the Classic series. So far I have bought most of my gear only if I could get it through special deals or discounts. I get online discoun...

I have an Eheim Classic 2213 and the Ecco 2236. The Ecco is much larger but the Classic can outfilter my Ecco any day. On the 40 gallon cory/danio/cichlid tank I had both running. Then I got my 50 gallon goldfish tank set up. I bought a 2213 for the goldfish tank. I took the media container out of t...

Sunlight DOES seem to help a LOT. This morning the betta's fin edges looked kind of melted and gooey. I put him in his little tank out in the late afternoon sun for about an hour and while he was outside the edges quickly got healthy looking. There were still the two antibiotics in his water. I then...

Okay....do NOT use salt! I had tried it once when the betta first got rot. Then last night I decided to try it again, in conjunction with the Marcyn 1 and Maracyn 2, because I keep reading how salt is supposed to boost the work of the medication. The salt set me back a full day of progress. It made ...

Do you have a bucket or hospital tank that you can isolate him in? Most meds or salts will either bother any plants you have, or your biological filter, or both. I think you probably have nothing to lose by medicating at this point. Fin rot is a perplexing disease. My daughter's betta just came down...