Interesting. I have no idea why this "kit" as they call it, only came with one small box of ceramic noodles and one small bag of carbon. Sounds pretty incomplete.
What's in your FX5?
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Interesting. I have no idea why this "kit" as they call it, only came with one small box of ceramic noodles and one small bag of carbon. Sounds pretty incomplete.
i got a fx5 second hand from a fish shop, it was used with 7 others for a 10x3x3 reef tank in the pet shop which now has a sump. The owner of the tank was the owner of the shop, so he could have what ever media he wanted. However, when i opened it up it was just full of ceramic rings. Like everybody else is saying, they're best to use. all of the other products are just a con. you could spend tons of money on stuff that takes stuff out of the water and it would make no difference.
Yes its called scoria and many people have used it as media, i just stack all 3 full of it, works a treat.
I just got one myself. That Fish Place is having an awsome sale on them with free shipping. Mine didn't come with any media. I put ceramic 'noodles'/rings in it and the pads. I have a bag of carbon in the one because of my stinky monster goldfish. The bag is long so I had to fold it in half which is allowing most of the water to bypass the carbon anyway. lol
I have 5 FX5's, All are full of bio media with the stock sponges. 1 is stacked full of ehfisubstrat pro, 3 have substrat pro/matrix/biomax, the last is full of biomax/siporax...
So how long do you think it takes to have a fully established BB colony going on in my new FX5? I still have the HOB filter and will keep it, but just curious how long it takes for the FX5 to be good as a stand alone filter.
