Duh!

[nurglespuss]

Hey all,

My new much deeper aquarium is currently being filtered by 2 of the large EHEIM Liberty's, and to exten their 'reach' I added tubing (a couple of inches) with tube shaped sponge covers on the ends of the tube....

(The filters were already mature form another tank).

However, I was just replacing the 2 100W heaters with 1 200W heater (as one of the 100W was old, and I didn't entirely trust it), and was thinking, in my haste to prevent material (plant material in particular) and baby snails getting taken up by the intake by using the sponges, have I made the filter pads inside the filter housing redundent? i.e. should I instead get ahold of a couple of new cage-ends for the filters and add those to the extended pipe-work?

I've seen people use sponges/hessian etc. to cover filter intakes, but never really considered that aspect!

Any thoughts?

Cheers!

 

[OldMan47]

You have added a new biological filter to what you already had. I run lots of tank filters with a sponge over the inlet to protect the fry in my tanks. If I need a cycled filter in a crisis, those sponges come in real handy in the new tank too. It amounts to a partial cycled filter. Where else can you find such easily moved filter media?

 

[nurglespuss]

You have added a new biological filter to what you already had. I run lots of tank filters with a sponge over the inlet to protect the fry in my tanks. If I need a cycled filter in a crisis, those sponges come in real handy in the new tank too. It amounts to a partial cycled filter. Where else can you find such easily moved filter media?

Cheers good advice!

The HOBs are now off and the sponges came in handy for seeding the new external

Nowm I must resist the temptation to reuse them in another tank ;p