Re: RM...........here are some links to some good sites that have the proper bulbs

"Randy Webb" <HikksNotAtHome@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Reel McKoi said the following on 12/26/2007 7:59 PM:
>
>> The problem is the intake slots clog quickly with plant debris.
>
> When I do water changes, I simply pick the rock up, pull the filter out 
> the bottom, rinse it off in a bucket, and put it back. So far, I get
very 
> little debris on it and what I do get easily rinses off.

OK, mine are made so there is no filter on the bottom but Roy reminded me 
about some I have stored. As I recall they have an intake strainer I can 
pull a sponge over to prevent clogging.  My other powerheads not made the 
same.

>> Or bits of plant debris get pulled through the intake slots and clog up

>> the impeller.  :(
>
> That is why I put the filter in the rock.

What filter?  These powerheads have no filter?!?!?!  They have slots where

the water is sucked in and a outflow tube.

 I couldn't attach it to the
> power head because of the way they were made. So, I used the rock to
hold 
> the filter and power-head so that the power-head can only pull water 
> through the filter. The filter keeps the power-head from becoming
clogged.

Are you talking about a sponge filter on it's intake screen?  Not all of 
these powerhead-like water pumps come with screens you can pull a sponge 
over.

> The two "rocks" that I have (they aren't actually true rocks) look like 
> someone pulled a post out of the ground that was concreted in. Then took

> the concrete and cut it into 4 inch sections so that they have square 
> holes in the middle. I cut filters to fit into that hole and then have
it 
> pull through the filter. In the end, about all the rocks do is give me a

> stable place to hold the filter and power head where they are stable
with 
> one another.

You have the type of powerhead that comes with a strainer then.  I'm
hoping 
I have one or two out in storage.
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RM....
Zone 6.  Middle TN USA
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