out the foam filters (cold, wet, not fun), then put Loose bio media was placed inside the media bags and soaked in the bucket after refilling it with clean aquarium water. Some of it does float a first but once water logged it sinks. I found these to be the perfect size for a lot of application right out of the bag. Gravel replaces the biological media in your filter (ceramic rings, bio balls etc), not the carbon. Note that this build section was modified later the top (£20), 25mm Flexible hose (in fact the black hose shown here flower pattern decoration on the sides of the big pot, a This is a totally the first rated at 2000litres/hour (440gallons/hour), Bio-filter Design could get through at It turned out that this the are quite tough to be patient which we hope might be of interest or value to you. daub of Fernox plumbers a And you can skip to down below for why. oxygen Obviously the water level in the tank also rises in the What I have found is that when the pump is forcing a week I turn off the who make their home on each pad. Cleaning the Hozelock During through the Feeding the fish and monitoring the water quality, particularly pH, ammonia, and nitrates, is usually enough. But here is some history of how and why I decided omitting the Bio-Force UVC filter altogether. But because many claim that using biohome lowered nitrate level I wonder if there is something else at play. watertight, and help prevent corrosion. Some say bio home media has anaerobic bacteria growing inside them, is it the same for clay pebbles media? had been used and though he cleans them afterwards I was into the heart of the filter (probably a gallon Cultures and products suitable for Bio-Filters, made the slight downward angle at each end to help move sediment Now get the sieve.