What's the best direction for your filter output?

Thanks for the tip Graeme. I'll watch out for this.

How often do you check the filter media?

"Graeme" wrote in message
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"David Dix" wrote in message
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Hi,

I'm a newbie and I recently purchased a Fuval Uno Aquarium Starter Kit
which
comes complete with the Fluval One Plus internal filter.

My first filter was a Fluval 1, had a few problems with it you may want to
watch out for. The design of the filter media is a single square sponge,
water enters the filter case and though this and then out of the top of
the
sponge into where it is released back into the water. I found with mine
the
very top of the sponge was soon covered in a layer dirt from the tank,
this
slowed the water flow though the top of the sponge, as a result water
output
went down.

Now I did have 2 goldfish in the tank, so maybe I had too much waste that
the filter couldn't cope, but keep an eye on the water flow from the
filter.

Graeme