fx5 media

[Jay Huska]

well I just picked up my first canister filter, and have no idea what to put into it. I did get some bio media, carbon with ammonia remover, other than that I have no idea what to put in there. Was kinda thinking peat? Anyone fave any suggestions, and if so why? All opinions are welcome. Thanks, Jay

[jvision]

Carbon w. ammonia remover is only necessary on a brand new tank that hasn't cycled yet. And peat is only necessary if you're wanting to keep/breed fish that are directly from blackwater rivers (ie. wild caught from Amazon area). My FX5 currently has the sponges around the outside and pot scrubbies in the middle. I will be doing a mod in the New Year that will close to tripple the bio capacity - it will be in my Journal thread.

[Callie]

I think that it is to expensive to place specific filter media into the filter ie. FX5 media into a FX5 filter. All I do is pick up a couple big bags of polyester wool and stuff it into the site baskets, the tops and then place bio rings and seachem purigen into the baskets. This is what I do for all of my filters. It is cheap and works perfect. As for the polyester wool I always reuse it. It takes some time to rinse the gunk out but it always come clean and can hold a ton of mechanical waste.

[corrosionjerry]

Carbon w. ammonia remover is only necessary on a brand new tank that hasn't cycled yet. And peat is only necessary if you're wanting to keep/breed fish that are directly from blackwater rivers (ie. wild caught from Amazon area). My FX5 currently has the sponges around the outside and pot scrubbies in the middle. I will be doing a mod in the New Year that will close to tripple the bio capacity - it will be in my Journal thread.

I will be interested seeing the modifcation.