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- From: pete@introl.com (Pete Ikusz)
- Newsgroups: rec.aquaria
- Subject: Re: [F] a few questions...
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- Date: 21 Dec 92 15:53:29 GMT
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- In article <1gvlioINN499@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu> jwjohn@ecst.csuchico.edu (Jerry W. Johnson) writes:
- >
- >(2) Also, I've a Fluval 403 running the RUGF in a 30 gallon FW, (yes,
- >sometimes I too wonder how the gravel stays in the tank, I got a good
- >deal on a used one explains the overkill). Anyway, I've no experience
- >with a cannister. I've got ceramic "noodles" in the bottom, the foam block
- >in the top, and a combination of carbon, ammonia & de-nitrate in the middle
- >chamber. The middle chamber is what concerns me. Am I using a sound
- >combination, and just how full/packed should the middle chamber be?
-
- People in the aquarium maintenance business that I know and have spoken
- with recommend setting up the canister filter in the following method:
-
- Sponge / floss at the bottom
- sponge in the middle
- ceramic rings at the top
-
- The first two stages are purely for mechanical filtration. Sponges
- get rotated, and one gets cleaned at a time. This is to keep the junk
- out of the bio filter stage. The bio stage never gets touched.
-
- They also have said that there is rarely a need for using chemical
- filtration in a tank. I have seen the tanks that they have kept
- and all were in exceptional shape.
-
- They also contend that the noodles were put at the lowest level to act as a
- coarse mechanical filtering stage. However, they act more as a bio filtering stage.
- And that bio filtering should be done after mechanical filtering has been
- done. (IE: there is no reason to put them there. It only makes cleaning
- more difficult.)
-
- If I go by what I see, then their methodology looks 100% correct, at least all
- their fish seem happy. (I have seen 10 out of the 60 different tanks that they
- care for.)
-
- Any netters have different or similar opinions?
-
- -Pete
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- Pete Ikusz Introl Corporation pete@introl.com
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