wet/dry question

[joeytoe]

Im going to be doing my own wet/dry filter soon. an am curious (as alotve you have them) The bio-media (what ever you use, Bio-balls, nylon pot scrubbers, etc etc) Should any of the bio media be submerged completely?

 

[rallysman]

I use bioballs, and I have about 1" of them submerged. I've been considering slowly replacing them with pot scrubbers though.

 

[joeytoe]

Ok cool, Im going to the dollar store tommorow to get some pot scrubbers

 

[tigerfish]

try biozyme. its good stuff

 

[tigerfish]

i like the oldschool hagen (fluval) biomax ceramic things v bioballs. proly cuz im old tho

 

[eh1421]

pot scrubbers all the way

 

[cougar579]

If your on a tight budget go with a **** load of straws. Cut them up into smaller pieces. I also use to the pot scrubbers.

 

[Princley]

hey u can also use the foam kernells that come in shipping boxesthey work GREAT
just get tem wet frist to make sure they don't melt some compainies use a biodegradalbe type but the foam ones r GREAT media a local post office should have em

 

[Oddball]

i like the oldschool hagen (fluval) biomax ceramic things v bioballs. proly cuz im old tho

In the real "old school", we used lava rock chips before the invention of bio-balls. Lava rock chips tended to make the tank acid. If we wanted to maintain an alkaline tank, we used those green plastic toy army men and/or the monkeys from barrel-o-monkeys toys.

Today, I use pot scrubbers that I get from the Dollar stores. Depending on the time of year, they're in packs of 6 for 88 cents or packs of 10 for $1.

I keep roughly the bottom quarter to a third of the bio-media submerged on all my W/Ds.

 

[malawi4me2]

I'm with Oddball. I keep about a quarter to a third of my bio-media submerged.