Sponge Filters

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EricJ7182

EricJ7182

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I've decided to try something I saw on youtube and figured I'd ask some fellow MFK members about it. To cut back on my electric bill, I decided to purchase some sponge filters and plan to use them as my main filters in some of my tanks once they are seeded. My set ups so far are: a 125 with two eheim 2217s and a deep blue sponge rated for 125 gallons (breeding pair of La Ceiba Yellowheads), 90 gallon with an aquaclear 110 and a deep blue sponge rated for an 80 gallon tank that's being run through a powerhead (breeding pair of festae), 75 gallon with an aquaclear 70 and a deep blue sponge rated for an 80 gallon tank also being run through a powerhead, a 55 gallon tank with a penguin 200 and two deep blue sponges rated for 40 tanks( green severum, 3 rainbow cichlids, 3 clown loaches), a pair of 40 gallon tanks one running an aquaclear 110 ( cuban cichlid), second 40 runs an aquaclear 70 and 50 ( festae and yellowhead growouts, 46 gallon run on deep blue sponge filter rated for 80 gallon, and two ten gallon tanks one with a deep blue sponge filter an aquaclear. 20, and the other has a generic walmart filter.

My plan is to run only sponge filters on the following tanks: 55g, 46g, one of the 40g,and both tens. My question is will this work with the fish I have? I've also read up about lees triple flow filters and thought about adding a few of these too.

I figure once the filters are seeded I could get rid of my penguin 200, an aquaclear 70, an aquaclear 50, an aquaclear 20, and another generic filter my wife bought.


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I don't see why not I had sponges even with stingrays without a problem. Only downside for me was more water changes.


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Suppose it would work. I would try it on one tank at a time though. What about mech on those thanks with just sponges? I would want something to keep water column clear.

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Daonni said:
Suppose it would work. I would try it on one tank at a time though. What about mech on those thanks with just sponges? I would want something to keep water column clear.

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A sponge filter works as both a mech and bio filter in one. This was my cutteri fry grow out. Running on just sponge filters. http://youtu.be/nRB3sgxwCJg


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SPONGE FILTERS will work just fine for keeping your fish healthy as long as you do the required maintenance.. same as with other filters , but the results of doing the maintenance will be more visible with sponge filters , being that the waste stays in the tank
 
lp85253 said:
SPONGE FILTERS will work just fine for keeping your fish healthy as long as you do the required maintenance.. same as with other filters , but the results of doing the maintenance will be more visible with sponge filters , being that the waste stays in the tank
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Is it worth it? What will the savings be? The four filters use a total of less than 100 watts of electricity. It costs less than fifty cents a day to run them. So you may save a bit less that $15 per month.
 
Thanks for all the replies. I'm gonna try this slowly and see how it works out. Has anyone ever used a lees triple flow u it before? Would a small chemi-pure or Purigen pack fit inside one if I found that my tank still needed some chemical filtration?




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I haven't tried those but I used to stuff bio max in the middle of the big sponge in my video



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