Filter media????
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WOW! $66 sounds like a lot, but I guess it is not when you compare it to the cost of bio-balls. I have a gallon of bio-balls I been running in the back of a hang on the back filter, and I am not impressed with them. I think bio-balls clog up and I get all this brown slim build up on them. Maybe some of it is the bacteria, but there has to be something better out there!
The filter I'm filling is 5ft long and 2ft wide and 22" tall. It's larger than a 110gal aquarium and has multiple 2" inlet drain pipes. It holds over 45gals of media. Trying to fill it with standard bio-balls would break the bank.
lol I was at the $ store the other day and had the same thought about the easter grass.
Ive been using the scrubbies and they handle increases in bioload very well. I have them in a sump for 2 55g tanks and rearranged fish 3 weeks ago I have to figure I almost doubled the bioload and no ammonia or nitrate spike.
Ive been using the scrubbies and they handle increases in bioload very well. I have them in a sump for 2 55g tanks and rearranged fish 3 weeks ago I have to figure I almost doubled the bioload and no ammonia or nitrate spike.
Your right, but not the best kind. It doesn't work very fast at removing the bad stuff.
As far as the amount of 'scrubbies' to use 'as many as you can fit in your filter sump without crushing them' is the easiest rule of thumb.
Dr Joe
There's better threads on this in here, but here's a pic.
http://www.3reef.com/forums/attachm...p-diy-overflow-overflowmydry.jpg?d=1108229259
http://www.3reef.com/forums/attachm...p-diy-overflow-overflowmydry.jpg?d=1108229259
I have seen that before, but really do not understand how that will keep going and start back up if power goes out...I'm a very visual person. Could I use 3/4 inch PVC or should I use 1 inch on a 75 gallon. This would be used with an eheim wet/dry that I already have on there....
