dragonboy69 Posted April 20, 2014 Report Share Posted April 20, 2014 (edited) Hi all. I'd like to do a poll but not sure on how to do it. But the topic is what is your preferred media choice for canisters and why. I don't want answers suggesting products just because our sponsors are selling the product. I hope our sponsors are not offended or upset. But if you find the sponsors stuff better that is ok. Listed are a few choices I can add more if other suggestions come up. Seachem Matrix MarinePure Spheres Ceramic Noodles Mr Aqua Pouros Noodles Coral Ruble BIOMOTION MEDIA BIOHOME MEDIA BIOHOME PLUS MEDIA BIOHOME ULTRA MEDIA BIOHOME MINI ULTRA BIOHOME ULTIMATE All bio media info can be found here on the following link BIOMOTION MEDIA - Tyne Valley Aquatics Edited April 20, 2014 by dragonboy69 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mq_camo Posted April 20, 2014 Report Share Posted April 20, 2014 Coral rubble, marine pure and matrix. (Have heard good things about bakki and mr aqua pouros noodles) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonboy69 Posted April 20, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2014 Zeolite is that pretty much same as Matrix if not what's the difference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brenton Posted April 20, 2014 Report Share Posted April 20, 2014 i use a lot of eheim substrat pro in my cannisters. seems to work well for me. i am keen to try out those marine pure spheres though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donny@ageofaquariums Posted April 20, 2014 Report Share Posted April 20, 2014 Zeolite is an ammonia removing chemical media, not a static biological media. Biohome and biomotion are media that is promoted massively by a youtube guy, which is ok........... but he generally trashes other medias to try make his look better. Which is a bit low and the way its done is often very missleaded...... eg the dye absorbtion test, which the cheapest sintered glass rings are best at, was instead used to try say matrix is rubbish, while the rings were left out of the test. For me its..... Marine Pure spheres (biological) coarse filter sponge (biological/mechanical) chemi pure (chemical) Gets the job done for ages. Which is lucky as I let my canisters go longer than most before I clean them. There are lots of bio/mech/chem options though. And the beauty of canisters is that you can tailor them to match A few examples would be........ ~ the bioload of the of the tank (surface area needed for bio) ~ flowrate you need to squeeze out of filter (how much bypass you are willing to allow) ~ frequency of cleaning (amount of fine mech added and how low you need chem media to last) ~ how much media it holds (just how important an epic surface area to volume ratio is on your biomedia) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
th3f0rg0t3n Posted April 20, 2014 Report Share Posted April 20, 2014 I would also like to try the BIO-HOME media types as it seems to be of quality and more canister filter friendly with sizing, Otherwise would like to try the MarinePure Bio-Media MP2C-c BUT doesn't seem to be any source of it in Australia as of yet, just more canister friendly (can get more into each tray) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonboy69 Posted April 20, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2014 Biohome and biomotion are media that is promoted massively by a youtube guy, which is ok........... but he generally trashes other medias to try make his look better.Which is a bit low and the way its done is often very missleaded...... eg the dye absorbtion test, which the cheapest sintered glass rings are best at, was instead used to try say matrix is rubbish, while the rings were left out of the test. Yes I noticed that he tries to talk his product up. While talking other products down. He puts his pockets interest first instead of trying to promote the hobby properly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
