Stainless Steel Scrubbies - Good or Bad?

[yotaman]

I was doing research for sump ideas and come across this website (http://wernersponds.com/biofiltermedia.htm). Going by what the website clams stainless steel scrubbies have a surface area of 420 cu.ft.

I can get 72 stainless steel scrubbies from this website (click here) for $24.99.

Do you guys see any reason why these would not make a killer bio medium?

 

[soggysandwich]

dont use them. at lot of time those are not really stainless steel and end up rusting. if this happens it will cause a lot of damage to your fish. use nylon scrubbies

 

[ilikewomen]

I heard they kill bacteria,therefore,not good for a bio medium

 

[boostspike]

agree, just use the nylon scrubbies. just get them at the dollar store.. the shop around here sells a 6 pack for $1.

 

[yotaman]

Cool. Thanks guys.

 

[ilikewomen]

Also,for 25$,you could get about 150 nylon scrubbies

 

[yotaman]

I'm going to check at Big Lots today.

Do the scrubbies have more bio medium than bio balls? A 5 gallon buck of 1" balls can be purchased for $30.00.

 

[ilikewomen]

for 30$, you could get like 3 bucket fulls of scrubbies and they have double the surface area (just about) of bio balls. Do the scrubbers.

 

[johnptc]

for 30$, you could get like 3 bucket fulls of scrubbies and they have double the surface area (just about) of bio balls. Do the scrubbers.

bioballs are self cleaning with decent water flow are scubbies ??

 

[basslover34]

bioballs are self cleaning with decent water flow are scubbies ??

Anything is self cleaning if the water flow is high enough

Scrubbies are a Great low cost alternative to other media, Dollar for Dollar you can't beat Scrubbies... but personally I prefer Bio Balls... mind you I've had so many of them come in here as part of tanks that I've bought I can't beat the dollar value of free LOL