Any Foam Experts?! 🤣

[Aqua sobriquet]

I can't be 100% on this because it's very hard to tell from a photo, however, because they don't describe their foam as polyether, it's fairly safe to assume it isn't. This is simply because it does tend to cost a bit more so those who are selling it make a point of justifying the price hike, by telling you how much better it is. They're not wrong.

This is made more complex by the fact that there are better and worse qualities of polyethylene foam too. I've bought sponge filters with such atrociously poor foam (feels kind of greasy, deforms and even tears very easily) that they have almost no integral strength and kinda collapse on themselves within a few months. Compared to that really crappy sort of foam the polyethylene foam Finest-Filters sell is great stuff. But it's still short-lived compared to polyether.

I’ve used a variety of foams over the years, mainly in canisters and not had problems with any of them. They’ve all been relatively inexpensive compared to what you can pay. Maybe I’ve been lucky?

 

[Aqua sobriquet]

Without wanting to sound like an advert I’ve always used Pond, Aquarium And Fish Tank Filters | Finest-Filters

Free postage on any order and a good range. Normally takes about 2 days.

Now if you excuse me I need to ban myself for spamming advertising 🤣

Thanks for the heads up. I think I may have used them before. Anyway, I’ve just ordered some from them. 😉

 

[G H Nelson]

Yip in the 1960s Creamola Foam.....


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