What is your favorite filter media?

A very old, beat up pillow tore and I've been using the poly-fill from it. I just realized I've washed it and it probably has traces of detergent in it! It's been over a year, though, and my fishes seem fine and my plants are very happy..

I like crushed bisque-ware as a bio media these days. Bisque-ware is pottery which has been fired just tothe point where the clay particles are sintered - it's very porous and you can make it yourself!
 
i use kockney kois 3 stage foams real cheap but real good
and i use a bio media that my lfs gave me like little balls lol but they use it in all there tanks and they are a huge shop so it must be good and at 50p per kilo i cant go wrong
 
I was looking back at some of my old threads and stumbled across this one. I decided to bump it just because and it might help people to find new filter media options.
 
really depends Because if i use a power filter i like sponge but in a wet dry filter i am a huge fan of pot scrubbers. no need for carbon other than removing medicines because if your water is cloudy yellow or smells you should fix what is causing it and do more water changes. only other exception for carbon is tannin in the water from wood
 
sponge is my favourite - it's easy to cut to fit just about any filter (especially those stupid cartridge style ones!), has lots of surface area for bacteria colonization, is easy to rinse, is cheap as borscht, lol, and is the easiest media to shove in a ziploc and transport to another tank for a kick-start.
 
As BettaFishMommy said sponge especially course (not fine) has the excellent ability to provide structural support for the creation of a filter body to support even finer media on its exterior such as blue-bond padding and even finer woven poly batting simultaneously allowing excellent water flow to those finer rapped medias. At the same course sponge provides an unprecedented amount of internal/external surface area for bacteria growth something greatly overlooked and underestimated by those chasing the prepackaged bio-media craze. To me the perfect combo is a course sponge body providing a large circumference surface area platform, rapped by blue/white bonded filter padding for intermediate fine filtration and standoff layering between poly batting and sponge preventing clogging, and finally a layer rap of woven polyester batting on the outer most circumference orbit where it has the most surface area to allow high water volume throughput while at the same time polishing water through its very fine structure creating crystal clear water.
 
CWO4GUNNER said:
As BettaFishMommy said sponge especially course (not fine) has the excellent ability to provide structural support for the creation of a filter body to support even finer media on its exterior such as blue-bond padding and even finer woven poly batting simultaneously allowing excellent water flow to those finer Wrapped medias. At the same course sponge provides an unprecedented amount of internal/external surface area for bacteria growth something greatly overlooked and underestimated by those chasing the prepackaged bio-media craze. To me the perfect combo is a course sponge body providing a large circumference surface area platform, Wrapped by blue/white bonded filter padding for intermediate fine filtration and standoff layering between poly batting and sponge preventing clogging, and finally a layer Wrap of woven polyester batting on the outer most circumference orbit where it has the most surface area to allow high water volume throughput while at the same time polishing water through its very fine structure creating crystal clear water.
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FIXED :evil_lol: (to be honest, it was confusing me) :pc:

sponge and anything cheap and fine... simple, effective and not unnecessarily into my pockets. times are tough nowadays, but i don't want to slow life down just for my fish ;).
 
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