What biological media are you using?

[surfpalmsncycads]

i use it all! alot of matrix, scrubbies, and generic ceramics... i have bio balls too but as mentioned, i use for a trickle and other bio for sumberged.

 

[Dan F]

~30 gallons of Bio-balls. I've been using the same media for 15+ years, some of it is closer to 25 years old. While bio-balls may not have the same (claimed) surface area of ceramic media, it never clogs - my 15-year-old stuff works as well as when it was new.

 

[Squirtle919]

Matrix! Enough mech before your bio as a sump should be and it will never clog.

I like bio balls too, Have found they work great as mech, you would be amazed how much they trap.

 

[Steve Manly]

in sump.
first chamber - pot scrubbies
second chamber - peat balls, carbon (as req)
third chamber - fluidized bed using drinking straws cut 15mm long and roughed up in runny cement (increases ease of bacterial colonisation). dont know how many...but theres a lot! oh and the heaters
fourth chamber - floss
5th chamber pump

 

[duanes]

lava rock

and plants

same sump during a water change

 

[cjbarth]

Seachem Matrix and scrubbies in my tower, watertek MB3 media(moving bed bio chamber),and an algae turf scrubber ...all in my 100 gal sump
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[cordero01]

Seems its really few types of media that we are using bio balls, pot scrubbies, seachem matrix, Eheim pro, k1 moving bed, plants.
What media types are using in the oriental hemisphere, or europe!?


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[surfpalmsncycads]

the same i would assume.

 

[toehead11183]

I have pot scrubbies and a basket full of mix of eheim bio media and ceramic rings by penn plax

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[isde02]

Bio balls, bio home, bio glass rings, bio stars