Can i do this witha hob

  • We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo
Would it help if i added melifax to the tank? so the jur will grow some fins back
 
Melafix certainly wont hurt.
(unless you've added meds)
 
milkman407;615712; said:
Rally my jur is trying to eat my plecos lmao!!!!!
not really hit just looks like it, hes swimming around with them. Still wont eat though ( i expected it after just recovering some he should eat)

also is this a good setup for a hob? the sponge it comes with, filter floss than as much bio max as i can put in it?
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Personally I wouldnt even mess with the floss. It will just slow your flow down. Sponges and biomax is all I use in my HOB filters.
 
Thanks alot mate, I owe u big :). I'm going right now to go get a big thing of biomax and melifax
 
He ate a shrimp today :) seems to be doing alot better. Hopefully he will have the 120gallon all to himself by x-mas

Anyone know the gr on a jur?
 
It should grow very rapidly up to about 12" then slow down slightly. Everything i've read suggests they are fast growers, and if it's anything like a tig (As far as growth goes) it will.
 
rallysman;615708; said:
They work well in a wet/dry application just like bioballs do. They have less surface area so they wont plug up easily, but they make up for that with the large quantitys that you can use. When they are submerged there is less oxygen available, so there is less growth. The ceramic media has a TON of surface area due to the porous surface, so there is more area for it to grow on. if I could fill a wet/dry with ceramic media I would, but it's too expensive lol...


(besides that, it would plug up)
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I gotta call you on this one rallysman...sorry.

It's not the surface area that's the reason they don't clog up it's the open architecture.

If you could take a cup of ceramics and turn them into a filamentus string the same diameter as used to construct a scrubbie then you would have more surface area than a cup full of scrubbies, of course we've changed the whole game by improving the ceramics surface area now (ceramics as manufactured are dense with a rough surface, rather than porosity like scrubbies) :D . (Ok, it was my idea first)

Submerged, they have the same amount of oxygen available to each one. Due to the higher flow rate available with scrubbies, turnover rate will be higher availing more oxygen / nutrients to the bacteria. Scrubbies work equally well at the higher dwell times necessary for ceramics.

Tip: If you go ceramics and have alot of time on your hands, string them (ring or noodle type) on monofiliment line so when it comes time to clean them they lift out as a bunch for dunking,,,Works with scrubbies too.

Nothing wrong with cereamics, just expensive.

Dr Joe

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There is a chart floating around that has the surface areas of different media, if I'm not mistaken the ceramic had more than the scrubbies.....of course it's layed out differently.
Either way, it's nice to know that I can use scrubbies, because I'm cheap:)
 
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