I was having a cloudy water problem and one of our fellow members told me to get some sintered glass media, can anyone help me with the product like the name of a brand or an online site where I can buy this product and a good ceramic media
Looking for a Certain media for my sump
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U can use hydroponic clay is a good media they used in Europe
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eheim uses sintered glass, similar bio media to ceramics and seachem matrix. if you are looking to fill a sump with biomedia i couldnt recomend pond matrix enough. go to the dollar store and pick up laundry bags, and a 20L bucket of pond matrix is around 100 bucks. more bio than likely necessary
i think sintered glass is either out dated or more expensive for the same stuff, but i know one of the medias that came with my eheim was sintered glass... just another type of bio media. sure the cloudy water is from lack of bio? not saying it wouldnt cause it but it could be caused by a few things
Eheim Substrat and Substrat Pro are the the two medias that come to mind when you say sintered glass. It's one of the best bio-medias out there IMO, but its also one of the most expensive.
http://www.eheim.com/en_GB/products/filter-media/biological/substratpro
The other suggestion to use Seachem Matrix is a good one too. It is just as good as Matrix (or better depending on who you ask) and is nearly half the cost.
http://www.eheim.com/en_GB/products/filter-media/biological/substratpro
The other suggestion to use Seachem Matrix is a good one too. It is just as good as Matrix (or better depending on who you ask) and is nearly half the cost.
I use both Substrate pro and Matrix and honestly can't tell if one's better than the other. Cost was very different and I currently use Pond Matrix for most of my systems because substrate pro is so expensive...
....and at the end of the day bio doesn't care much what the surface area is made of as long as its there.
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....and at the end of the day bio doesn't care much what the surface area is made of as long as its there.
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^^ I agree with John's statement above. It is also important to keep any bio-media as clean as possible by placing it as the final media in the water flow of the filter.