FX5 bio chamber?

[selki]

im clueless with canisters, anyway Im trading my wet/dry sump for an FX5 with no media. Ive noticed most of them are just sponges but is there space where we can put some bioballs/scrubbies in?

also will i be able to connect my coralife TT 18w sterilizer with the fx5?

 

[dennisdeng2002]

Is the wet/dry too small for you setup? Wet dry are so easy to maintain and unless it's a tiny sump you have alot more room for media than the fx5, plus your can upgrade pumps for even more flow.

 

[flyin lizard]

To answer your question the fx5 has 3 baskets inside it ..

 

[RedTailKinG]

i am filling one out of my two with all scrubbies for a heck more BB

 

[svtim]

I have one basket with bio rings and another full of eheim pro I use the top for polishing and ocasionally carbon the flow is from top to bottom

 

[wow_it_esploded]

The fx5 has 3 internal trays, each surrounded by foam.

RedTailKinG, more surface area, by NO MEANS WHAT-SO-EVER, increases the amount of "beneficial bacteria" in your tank. It merely increases the potential.

 

[RedTailKinG]

maybe iyo but I have seen a dramtic change and so has alot of others on here that have done the same thing, but again thats not the only thing I run i have another fx5 stocked the way it comes from manufac and an eheim 2217 for biological so this also can be the reason why my tank has good paramiters

The fx5 has 3 internal trays, each surrounded by foam.

RedTailKinG, more surface area, by NO MEANS WHAT-SO-EVER, increases the amount of "beneficial bacteria" in your tank. It merely increases the potential.

 

[Jgray152]

RedTailKinG, more surface area, by NO MEANS WHAT-SO-EVER, increases the amount of "beneficial bacteria" in your tank. It merely increases the potential.

It does create more potential but it will most likely in this case, increase bacteria to a point which will increase the contact time.

 

[Mike fail]

It does create more potential but it will most likely in this case, increase bacteria to a point which will increase the contact time.

the fx5 master has spoken

 

[wow_it_esploded]

No. From what you just said JG (may I call you that? I have issues with people calling me WIE on other forums...), more surface area will increase the amount of bacteria. No, it will just spread them out more thinly, where they can be spread a little thicker. The bacteria population will stay the exact same, as long as the amount of food and the amount of oxygen is kept the same. Though an increase in oxygen will not increase the population by itself, nor will an increase in food (ammonia, nitrites, and sometimes, depending on if it is an anaerobic strain that is converting nitrates into nitrogen gas, nitrates) by itself increase the pop. Only an increase in both will increase the size of the population.

Though, more surface area will increase contact time, it will not increase the amount of bacteria, it will merely distribute them over a larger area.