Do any of yall use these as filter media

[16gallontanker]

What Is yalls opinion on these? Do they work for yall?because the sure do work for me .

 

[Fishfunn]

What Is yalls opinion on these? Do they work for yall?because the sure do work for me .

How do you use it?

 

[16gallontanker]

Like the cartridges that are made for the hob filter I cut it to fit in my filter and put it in my hob filter and it works just as good and last longer and when it gets dirty you just use tank water and squeeze it and clean it then put it back.

 

[CassCats]

They'd be good for polishing the water, but not heavy duty for larger particles in the water imo. But I ditched HOB filters long long ago. They're good to rig in some coarse sponge media though usually. That's what I'd add on to use with this if I went with HOB route.

Now I just do canister or DIY sump, and I use sponge media

 

[GaryE]

I find scrubbers, the plastic tangled ones very good. I don't really care about mechanical filtration, but for biological filtration, they do the job. The colours are kind of ugly, but no one sees them. I jam them into a HOB, and use a coarse sponge on top. Plus I use a lot of Japanese filter matting - recycled plastic fibre mats. Ugly blue things sold for ponds. They are great, and are gradually becoming my go to.

 

[Fishfunn]

I find scrubbers, the plastic tangled ones very good. I don't really care about mechanical filtration, but for biological filtration, they do the job. The colours are kind of ugly, but no one sees them. I jam them into a HOB, and use a coarse sponge on top. Plus I use a lot of Japanese filter matting - recycled plastic fibre mats. Ugly blue things sold for ponds. They are great, and are gradually becoming my go to.

I read a lot about people using plastic pot scrubbers, but wouldn't a very coarse foam medium do a better job? Like 10 or 20 ppi?

 

[Uberhoust]

I find filter material that has larger pores more effective, I believe it is because the biofilm on the filter substrate that removes any particles.

 

[GaryE]

It depends on what you want. Pot scrubbers carry a good archaea and bacteria load, and that's what I want. If you don't overfeed and use a siphon for regular water changes, there isn't s great need for mechanical filters.