Been adding alot of fish lately, so I added 4L of pond matrix underneath the bio balls in the submerged area of the wet dry. Heard alot of good things about this stuff. Lots of surface area and supposedly helps reduce nitrates as well. Always sceptical about anything that claims to reduce nitrates, any of you guys used this stuff with your cichla?
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I basically doubled my bio with this stuff, and its hella cheap. I paid like 25 bucks for 4L, and 4L is supposed to be enough for 400g. Alot cheaper than ceramic thats for sure. If I see a drop in nitrates after this stuff is colonized I will be getting more.
Venom SS;4813846; said:
I'm curious about this too. Let us know if it actually does this!
I remember your sump having a pretty large amount of biomedia but I guess you can never really have enough? Maybe I'm getting your set up confused with someone elses..
Not sure if will actually lower nitrates but the more biological media, the better. Bio Home is awesome as well. Deff keep us posted.
ado124;4815960; said:
Probly someone elses. Mine was rather weak in that department. Probably the weakest part of my system. It had maybe a 30x18x20 area of bio balls only, half of which stayed submerged most of the time, which is no bueno for bio balls. Compared to some of these other guys setups ive seen with 125g sumps stuffed with scrubbies and ceramic rings with half the stock I have, my bio was really suspect. Never had issues with ammonia over production but more bio surface area can never be a bad thing.
