Best cheap bio-media

[Aussienative]

Actually, my old minnow sump is still full of green plastic army soldiers and barrel-O-monkey pieces.



I took a couple out so you can see what I'm talking about. I washed some of the 'fish dust' off of them.

Hey oddball, what other common objects have you heard of for filter media?

I'm about to buy an fx5 for $300, the crazy thing is the commercial filter media(fluval,ehiem) is probably going to cost about the same as the pump!

I have spoken with steve about scrubbers(you may be getting an email soon i'm also searching australia high and low for them ) but is there anything else that i can use?

cheers for any help mate.

 

[Oddball]

My wider wet/dry filters use floor stripper pads. They're made of the same polyethylene plastic but are a little stiffer. They work great for large filters pushing alot of water since they don't compress under pressure as much as scrubbies or other materials do. They're available in a wide range of diameters and thickness. And, I've found them on occassion for US.99 cents for a 5-pack (ebay). Here's a pic of the pads, from a New Zealand company. So, you shouldn't have a problem finding them locally.

BTW, who's ripping you off on the FX5? I bought 3 of them, off ebay, for $185 + $38 shipping/each.

 

[Scottfree]

Cellpore is easily the best/most efficient bio product on the market, the beauty of it, is it's manufactured a little over a mile from where I live....

 

[Aussienative]

My wider wet/dry filters use floor stripper pads. They're made of the same polyethylene plastic but are a little stiffer. They work great for large filters pushing alot of water since they don't compress under pressure as much as scrubbies or other materials do. They're available in a wide range of diameters and thickness. And, I've found them on occassion for US.99 cents for a 5-pack (ebay). Here's a pic of the pads, from a New Zealand company. So, you shouldn't have a problem finding them locally.

BTW, who's ripping you off on the FX5? I bought 3 of them, off ebay, for $185 + $38 shipping/each.

Is that US$185/each? + shipping.... total US$223/each? or are you saying $185 for all 3? plus $38 each shipping

Everythings more expensive in aus you could probably get kangaroo meat cheaper than me

AU$300 is a great price i thought one store i know of has them for 300, a couple have them for 320-350 and most are 400+....... RRP is $495

Thanks for the info mate, i'll have a look around! I'll post a pic of some scouring pads when i get home, lf you could let me know what you think that would be awesome.

Thanks again

 

[mr36st]

u can also use the plastic hair curlers, and stack them, iv used them for over 3 years in my hob pengun 330, along with the bio whele, with good results, also good in big filters , put a bunch of curlers in a bag!!

 

[rottbo]

the local ladies are gonna have a hard time cleaning there dishes with the last trip I mad to the local dollar stores I hit 6 of them and came home with 60$ worth of potscrubbers... they all looked at me like I was crazt when I was at the register with just a cart load of scrubbers..... I told them that I was a dishwasher and my boss made me buy my own tools.....

 

[Tongue33]

I ordered 4 liters of Seachem Matrix instead.
Pot scrubbers just seemed to ghetto for some reason...

Sucks to be you Just call me ghetto After the results I received with Scrubbies vs everything else i've used I'll keep the ghetto secret

 

[Tongue33]

My wider wet/dry filters use floor stripper pads. They're made of the same polyethylene plastic but are a little stiffer. They work great for large filters pushing alot of water since they don't compress under pressure as much as scrubbies or other materials do. They're available in a wide range of diameters and thickness. And, I've found them on occassion for US.99 cents for a 5-pack (ebay). Here's a pic of the pads, from a New Zealand company. So, you shouldn't have a problem finding them locally.

BTW, who's ripping you off on the FX5? I bought 3 of them, off ebay, for $185 + $38 shipping/each.

Dammit!! Better ghetto D

 

[T]

pot scrubbers are great. cheap and great surface area. and plus u could color organize them.. iono why u woudl but some ppl might...

 

[mbutzer]

I have some unused lanscaping cloth, the mesh kind that water permeates. I'm thinking of cutting it into strips and stuffing a wad in my new filter setup. Does anyone have any thoughts on this, pro or con?