Message: 5
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 10:37:20 -0600
From: "AZ Burns" <aerburns at hotmail_com>
Subject: Re: [APD] An observation
To: aquatic-plants at actwin_com
The plant guru at my LFS recomends a fluidized sand filter for plants tanks.
He has one of his 75 at home because it is very simple to maintain, and
handles any nitrate spikes quickly. He says other bio-filters caused him
problems when he cleaned them since they would loose some bio filtration
capacity. He usually would get an algae breakout after cleaning out his
canister filters while they were recovering.
I know he has a high fish load and feeds pretty heavily. How much
bio-filtration you need probably depends on how much bio load you have, in a
planted tank or in a non planted tank. Sand filters work for him, W/D work
for you, some people have no bio-filters. Maybe bio-load is the factor to
look at closely in deciding what sort of bio-filter to use.
AZ Burns