Seachem matrix
- Thread starter Freshwater4Life
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Please take it easy guys.
This is what I use. $1.99 or so at Walmart. Honestly I wont put media in anything without one. I've gone through too many impellers from pieces of broken media, sand and what not. They really make maintenance easier. IMO it's worth tearing a filter apart or at least having these handy for the next time you clean it.
This is what I use. $1.99 or so at Walmart. Honestly I wont put media in anything without one. I've gone through too many impellers from pieces of broken media, sand and what not. They really make maintenance easier. IMO it's worth tearing a filter apart or at least having these handy for the next time you clean it.
Sweet Definitly check those out next time I need some media bags. Yea I man'd up and did it last night. 30 mins of work isn't worth breaking something or replacing an impeller for sure.
If you don't put it in appropriate size bags, you will know soon enough if a couple pieces slip through the bottom media basket and destroy your impeller or motor soon enough. Of course by that time (if you ignore it) you may have to order another impeller and or motor much earlier than if you had properly bagged the media. Another "option" is to put one of the reticulated high flow sponges at the bottom of the bottom basket that the matrix can't get by, and put the matrix unbagged on top of that.
The choice is, of course yours to make. Pay with "time" now or a lot of money later.....
YMMV
The choice is, of course yours to make. Pay with "time" now or a lot of money later.....
YMMV
