#1 April 8, 2009, 10:52 am
- Phillip in Hampton
- Upside-down Catfish
- From: Hampton, NB
- Registered: April 1, 2009, 6:39 am
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Bio Filter Media?
Hi All,
Wondering what others are using for BIO MEDIA in their barrell filters? Looking for a nice and cheap yet effective material. In my smaller filters I use "bio balls" that I purchased from the petstore...they were ridiculously priced and I'm not paying that much money to fill my barrell.
I see Stan in Yarmouth uses "something" white in his barrells, but, I can't tell what that is??? That being said, after reading his koishack page for his pond construction... I doubt he was selecting the "cheapest" product either......
Cheers
Phillip
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#2 April 8, 2009, 10:58 am
- jmartyg
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- From: Cornwall, PEI
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Re: Bio Filter Media?
dollar store pot scrubbers?
75 Gallon of Africans. (AC110, XP3, 2x40W 42" T8, 300W heater)
Flavus, Yellow Lab, RedxRed Zebra, O.B. Zebra, Red Top Ice Blue. Lots of fry and a few plecos.
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#3 April 8, 2009, 11:18 am
Re: Bio Filter Media?
Stan is using a bio-media called Kaldness in a fluidized moving bed bio. There are air diffusers below the media that continually roll/boil it. These are almost as good as Trickle Towers for providing O2 to the bacteria. Basic submerged bio-media are nothing more than NO3 factories.
I use both moving bed and TT's. The TT's have kitchen scrubbies in them...700 of them. I also use Matala matting in the smaller one.
We also both have settling chambers/vortexs before any mechanical filter media and then bio's
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5000 gallon koi pond, 2500 & 750 gallon holding tanks, 175 gallon African tank, 90 gallon Discus tank
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#4 April 8, 2009, 11:42 am
- Joey
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Re: Bio Filter Media?
you can use anything really that has alot of surface area and is fish safe. Pot scrubbies are high on my list for when a large area needs to be filled with bio-media.
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#5 April 9, 2009, 6:36 am
- Phillip in Hampton
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- From: Hampton, NB
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Re: Bio Filter Media?
Perfect fellas, thanks!
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#6 April 17, 2009, 7:18 am
- chrisneil
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Re: Bio Filter Media?
i purchased body loofah's from the dollar store. I found that they worked quite well.
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#7 May 15, 2009, 3:52 pm
- ray_c
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Re: Bio Filter Media?
What is s good, cheap mechanical filtration media and where can you get it?
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#8 May 15, 2009, 4:46 pm
- Joey
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Re: Bio Filter Media?
ray_c wrote:
What is s good, cheap mechanical filtration media and where can you get it?
Any course sponge would be the cheapest in the long run, as you can continue to rince and reuse it for a very long time.
Although filter floss is cheaper initially, it would have to be replaced often, so in the long run, the sponge is cheaper.
You can by sponge in various sizes depending on what you need.
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