filter media

My town water department sent out a letter saying we’re at the limit just over for manganese. Side note the other side of town has brown water. I made a previous post of this brown sludge stuff I call it brown snow because after every water change it just materializes out of no where. Cleaned...

Hi, What if I have a sponge filter and plenty of driftwood in the fish tank and avoid a three stage filter with bio balls? I have heard that driftwood serves as a surface area for beneficial bacteria. So can a large driftwood or multiple driftwoods replace bio balls for bio-filtration?

Hi, I recently got my 5 slot overhead sump for my filtering on my 75 gallons and I have the following filter medias: Filter pad/cotton for the first slot, k1 filter media on the second, lava rings for the 3rd, and ceramic rings for the 4th. I actually tested my water on my overhead sump's 3rd...

I'm currently finalizing the setup of my 120 gallon (freshwater) aquarium, and one final area where I'm looking for some input is on my filter media. The sump the tank came with is set up for a wet/dry style filter, and i'm wondering whether I'd benefit from using ceramic media in it or if it...

Hey MFK Need some advice please. What is the best filtration for keeping stingrays? What do you run on your stingray tanks? What Bio media you keep in the filters? My newly acquired ray is in my 350 gallon tank,which has a built-in internal filter and i also have a Dolphin C1600 canister...

Hey, I'm currently changing the media in my canister filter and I plan to use poly-fil but someone recommended I use pinky floss. I'm not sure if they both do the same thing but I just wanted everyone's opinion on which is better and why. Thanks.

Hi all, I am currently running two emperor 400s in my 75 gallon freshwater. right now one of the filters is just using back to back standard blue padded filter pads with carbon bits inside. the other filter has the first line of filtration as the standard filter pad, and then i have filled the...

I was wondering to make K1 most effective what kind of turnover should I have? Do I need like 3 turnovers an hour of maybe 10 turnovers an hour? First time using K1! Thank you in advance!!

Just want to get a little feed back on this sump. Im just getting back into the fish, and this is my first wet/dry sump system I've ever had. I have this sump running a 75 gal freshwater aquarium with an overflow. I had to use this sump on the opposite side due to a crack on the side were the...

Hello All, I have looked high and low and I cannot find pot scrubbers, except at HomeDepot.com and they are like 42 cents each (with tax). They used to cost about 25 cents a piece a few years ago when they were plentiful. I need at least 200 of them, so this will get pricey if I go that route...