i was seriously considering using a fbf for my soon to be ray tank untill i visited the lfs where the most knowledgeable fish keeper in the land told me they aren't worth their weight as far as a filter is concerned. does anyone here have any input? or can anyone prove him right or wrong?
fluidized bed filters, yay or nay?
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They can be a pain in the fanny to set and this leads a lot of people to complain about them but they DO work and work very well for thier size. My only complaint about them is that the BB (benificial bacteria) tend to die off VERY quickly if the water flows interupted. Even more so than with conventional media in a cannister.
An hour would probubly be fine but I wouldn't want to push it much past that point. However once a FBF is ballanced and running it's never a good idea to shut it down and re-start it over and over again. Doing so tends to blow a small amount of the sand into the tank each time... upsetting the delicate ballance.
ah gotcha...a guy offered me a lifeguard fb900 fbf for $50 today and a filter (i'm not sure what yet. he couldn't describe it well) that's got side by side stacks about 3.5' tall, fill em with carbon and put it inline with the return for $75. sound like a good deal? and what is the second one i'm searching now but can't find much
most dont run carbon but most fbf run around 65ish so i would say a decent deal. And i dont plan on using the fx5 as the pump too much pressure.
yeah...i doubt i'd use em for carbo...but i was just wondering what they were...i'd like to do a lil research before buying...azfishfool the fb900 is a lil over 100buks so it's definitely a good deal just wanted to make sure they worked as well as i thought they did