Polyester batting can be found in most good pet stores...at least here in
the US.....as filter batting .....very very similar to the stuff sold at
craft and sewing stores for filling quilts and pillows......it is a white
fluffy substance like cottoncandy......
.....don't think an old leisure suit sliced up will work too well......it
would definitely be an improvement over their original use

Sneaks


"Kodiak" wrote in message
.. .
Hi Ingrid,
Yes, Nitrates cannot be zero...

You always mention stuffing your filters with Polyester Batting.
Could you elaborate on the type of polyester? Is this like a pair of
old ployester pants cut into pieces? Do you layer square sheets of
it purpendicular to the water flow in the filter, or do you take a bunch
of strips and scrunch them up into a ball and jam them inside the
filter above the sponge? I assume we should keep the sponge and put
the polyester on top? Do you recommend polyester over the standard
white filter floss, or lava rock and other similar media?
..Kodiak.


wrote in message
...
you cant have nitrates at 0 unless this is a pond outdoors. your test
kits are bad.

get rid of the carbon. stuff where it was with polyester. white
shifting
is
biobugs, not algae. there has to be some kind of problem with the media
filter or
the water for the biobugs to be out like that. rinsing filters in
untreated water
will do it. forgetting to plug in the heat will do it. using old
dechlor
will do
it. Ingrid

Wendy Puckett wrote:

Nitrates are 0ppm and temp of the tank is 74 degrees Fahrenheit. I've
tried the water change in intervals of 20% at a time every 3 days for 2
weeks and had little success. Is there a chance that it's some sort of
algae? Besides buying a diatom filter for it, is there anything else I
could try? Right now I'm using carbon in the media baskets in both of
the penguin 330s.

Thanks
Wendy


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