Supercharging the ACO Sponge Filter - Equipment - C.A.R.E.
2024年11月28日 · Step 4: Now we want to wedge the acrylic container between the sponge filter and the air collar. Remove the air collar from your filter/the easy flow tubes if you have them attached. Place the acrylic container on top of the core of the sponge filter. Push down so the core is a bit exposed, and then put the air collar back on the core so the ...
Deciding between UG Filter or Sponge Filter - C.A.R.E.
2023年10月27日 · Grab an extra sponge filter from one of your other tanks, throw it in, and the new tank is instantly ready to go. If you have lots of tanks or setup seasonal tubs outside, maybe that's a plus. Otherwise, both work fine.
Dagwood Sandwich: Hot-Rodding the Jehmco Round Box Filter
2020年7月31日 · A sponge filter or box filter set up in their normal configuration will most likely give you plenty of surface agitation for oxygen exchange to happen or to break up the bio-film that can develop. However, and this is my reason for doing so, if you want directional current and or surface current direction this is the reason that I would find a ...
Fine Sponge Filter vs Coarse Sponge Filter - General Discussion
2020年10月13日 · A new Co-Op Coarse Sponge Filter will sink instantly. Of the dozens I have set up only 1 floated and required a squeeze. When I first setup my fish room and bought a bunch of generic ones on Amazon I was in a weeks long battle squeezing sponge filters to get them to sink.
NEW Co-Op Thing: Sponge Filter Jetlifter Kit - C.A.R.E.
2023年9月28日 · These little bubbles help to create more continuous flow and optimize the sponge filter's performance. If you already own an Aquarium Co-Op sponge filter, use the Easy Flow attachments to improve circulation in your tanks. It works with our small, medium, and large sponge filters, as well as nano sponge filters that were made after 2023.
How Long Till A Sponge Filter Has Bacteria? - C.A.R.E.
2021年6月6日 · But if bacteria is growing on the gunk particles, it is also on the sponge filter itself, so you retain that bacteria, which multiplies and grows on the new gunk the filter collects out of the water column. This cycle is probably healthier than not cleaning the filter because leaving the gunk in your aquarium indefinitely is going to create ...
New ACO Easy Flow Sponge Filter Upgrade Kit - C.A.R.E.
2023年11月9日 · Fifth - air collar and top 2 pieces running on a medium ACO sponge (lower piece of the top 2 is slid down as far as possible to make it easier to keep it all in frame), sixth - a new, Ziss adjustable airstone running inside the same medium sponge as usual, seventh and eight - the curved top piece fits into the old, pre-2023 nano sponge top ...
Double stacking sponge filter - General Discussion - C.A.R.E.
2024年3月27日 · Hi All, Looking for some advice. I switched my tank to a sponge filter from a canister. It is a soil with sand cap; planted 75 gallon. Sofar I love the quieter noise, and far easier operation. I have great flow with the easy flow adaptor 1/2 showing at the surface. Tank parameters: stable at 20-2...
Fastest way to seed beneficial bacteria using sponge filters
2021年9月30日 · Both also have HOB’s sized for 75 G flow x 2 with large ACO prefilters packed with a roughly equal to a large sponge filter volume of 30 ppi sponge blocks. So I only have around 320 gallons of sponge filtration in each of those tanks with the equivalent of 3 large sponges counting them as 40 gallons of filtration each (x 2) plus 2 more large ...
Chemical filtration using a sponge filter? - General Discussion
2021年5月5日 · I saw on one of Cory's videos that you can stick some bio rings into the middle of a sponge filter, so it got me wondering if there's a way to use chemical filtration on them. I'm thinking a resin bag or a carbon-infused filter pad could be zip-tied to …