I have come to the realization that whoever said I was doing something horribly wrong needs a cookie for being correct
I'm a dummy and have been overthinking and therefor making my filter setup useless.
The tank is a biocube 16 and it has a 3 part filtration area
where it overflows from 1 to 2 and goes to 3 through a sponge at the bottom.
That sponge gets clogged easily and makes 3rd chamber level drop to the point where it is pumping bubbles and air and is also a literal pain to clean if you have decently sized arms as the gap between the false back and the real back is barely big enough to squeeze my arm down without bruising it
My solution for the longest time has just been keeping my tank levels higher so it barely overflows from chamber 2 to the pump and use chamber 2 as a makeshift fuge which worked for the while
Eventually tho all the light chaeto got sucked over the edge and the rest got sucked into the sponge and melted into a green paste
I cleaned the sponge the best I could as I do not believe it comes out and took what was left of the chaeto out and into chamber 1. Now chamber 2 is properly doing it's job with 2 seperate layers of walmart plush polyfill
I'm a dummy and have been overthinking and therefor making my filter setup useless.
The tank is a biocube 16 and it has a 3 part filtration area
where it overflows from 1 to 2 and goes to 3 through a sponge at the bottom.
That sponge gets clogged easily and makes 3rd chamber level drop to the point where it is pumping bubbles and air and is also a literal pain to clean if you have decently sized arms as the gap between the false back and the real back is barely big enough to squeeze my arm down without bruising it
My solution for the longest time has just been keeping my tank levels higher so it barely overflows from chamber 2 to the pump and use chamber 2 as a makeshift fuge which worked for the while
Eventually tho all the light chaeto got sucked over the edge and the rest got sucked into the sponge and melted into a green paste
I cleaned the sponge the best I could as I do not believe it comes out and took what was left of the chaeto out and into chamber 1. Now chamber 2 is properly doing it's job with 2 seperate layers of walmart plush polyfill