FX5 Media Capacity

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Alright, so my FX5 doesn't arrive until Wednesday, so in the meantime, I figured I would buy the media and dump it in one of my established tanks to seed it beforehand. I've been looking online to determine how much of what I will need to buy. Frustrated, I went to today and bought 500g of Biomax and 750g of Fluval Pre-Filter. I know the FX5 has 3 meda bins and I'm a little confused as to what's going where. I think I'm going to have the prefilter in the top bin, and the biomax in the bottom bin. So, those of you that own the filter, how are you stacking up the media?
 
bottom is km-1 filter media 2 ltrs
middle is km-1 filter media 2 ltrs
top is 2 ltrs of substrat pro with ceramic rings in it

when i get my second fx5 this week it will be done exactly the same
 
all 3 layers of both mine are filled with eheim mechanical rings and eheim biological "rock" media mixed together. If i was using it as my main filter id do noodles on the bottom, biological in the middle and some type of prefilter in the top
 
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