Mechanical media
- Thread starter Serrateeth_2002
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How good of a job do you want it to do? I use sponges which do a fine job and don't require to much maintaince other than having to clean them out every week or two. You can get very fine filter floss or use diatom filtration and filter the water down to a couple of microns... however you will probably be clogged in a matter of hours/days.
I'll rephrase my question,what's a good filter media combo that is good for mechanical which includes filtering even the tinest of crap.
very fine filter floss will probably work best with whatever existing filter you have. A vortex diatom filter(which cost about 80 bucks) will filter down to 1 micron - can't get much better than that.
Too bad diatom filters are not available in most stores here but i guess i have to make use of what's present,coarse sponge and synthetic cotton,ceramic something,are they good?
i have a fluval 204 which comes with sponge filters. i also fill one of the media compartments with filter floss, which works great at polishing the water (if such a thing is possible). though diatomic filtration works great, the units tend to be a little expensive when compared with a $3 bag of filter floss that will last about 6 months.
I found that the Magnum filters have a water polishing filter option available. I bought the HOT Magnum with this option and it does a good job of filtering the water. It even took out most of the green algae I had in the water. This model was under $100 as well.
