REDSTEVEO
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I have two Eheim Filters running on a 400 litre aquarium. Filter 1 is an Eheim Professional 3, Filter 2 is an Eheim 650 T Thermal filter. Each filter is filled with identical filter medium consisting of Eheim Efimech, the bio balls and Bio Home Ultra.
The original intention was to get good mechanical filtration as well as biological filtration in both filters.
If I'm honest, I don't think I achieved either, I don't think the mechanical filtration is good enough in either filter to allow the biological media to function properly, too much crap gets to it.
I am not impressed with the Bio Home Ultra to be honest, and when I strip down the tank next week I will probably be binning the lot.
My thought are, maybe just fill one filter completely with Sera Siporax Sintered Glass media, and the other filter full of sponge ranging from very coarse, medium coarse and coarse, with no fine sponge or filter wool.
The hope being that the filter with all the sponge in will filter all the fine particle crap out of the water, allowing the other filter with the Siporax in it to work more effectively as a biological filter.
What are you thoughts on this idea?
I would also like to ask is it possible to join the two filters together in tandem, one with all the mechanical filter media inside, and the second with all the biological media inside. I know this might reduce flow, but are there any other reasons why this could not be done?
Thanks in advance,
Steve
The original intention was to get good mechanical filtration as well as biological filtration in both filters.
If I'm honest, I don't think I achieved either, I don't think the mechanical filtration is good enough in either filter to allow the biological media to function properly, too much crap gets to it.
I am not impressed with the Bio Home Ultra to be honest, and when I strip down the tank next week I will probably be binning the lot.
My thought are, maybe just fill one filter completely with Sera Siporax Sintered Glass media, and the other filter full of sponge ranging from very coarse, medium coarse and coarse, with no fine sponge or filter wool.
The hope being that the filter with all the sponge in will filter all the fine particle crap out of the water, allowing the other filter with the Siporax in it to work more effectively as a biological filter.
What are you thoughts on this idea?
I would also like to ask is it possible to join the two filters together in tandem, one with all the mechanical filter media inside, and the second with all the biological media inside. I know this might reduce flow, but are there any other reasons why this could not be done?
Thanks in advance,
Steve
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