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Thoughts on air driven sponge filters
By: Cichlid_dude75 Date: January 8, 2015, 10:11 am
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Just curious, what do y'all think about air driven sponge
filters? Are they good enough to be a stand alone filter, or
are they just a secondary?
#Post#: 1970--------------------------------------------------
Re: Thoughts on air driven sponge filters
By: mrk13p Date: January 8, 2015, 11:46 pm
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for larger tanks i would say secondary unless you want to have a
bunch of sponge filters taking up real estate. For smaller tanks
it can work as a primary just fine.
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Re: Thoughts on air driven sponge filters
By: TexMex Date: January 11, 2015, 4:02 pm
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I have sponge filters in my tanks and I use the as a secondary
filter, great source to grow beneficial bacteria. They are a
very cheap if you are one a budget and don't care for a big
sponge, I would definitely get one.
#Post#: 1978--------------------------------------------------
Re: Thoughts on air driven sponge filters
By: Cichlid_dude75 Date: January 12, 2015, 3:05 pm
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Thought this post might generate a little bit of life on this
forum, but I was wrong.
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Re: Thoughts on air driven sponge filters
By: mrk13p Date: January 15, 2015, 1:33 pm
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yeah this forums kinda dead
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Re: Thoughts on air driven sponge filters
By: PaulMartin61 Date: January 18, 2015, 1:04 pm
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[quote author=Cichlid_dude75 link=topic=354.msg1978#msg1978
date=1421096705]
Thought this post might generate a little bit of life on this
forum, but I was wrong.
[/quote]
Not sure what you were looking for in a response. Mrk13p and
TexMex's answers have to be the two most common answers you'll
get anywhere.
Sponge/Box filters have been around forever, and for good
reason. They work!
As long as your able to provide a nice steady air flow (easy
these days), these little sponges give both mechanical and
biological filtration. Cleanup is super easy too.
Course the bad rap for these is simply appearance. Most 'living
room' tanks bypass the benefits of a good sponge filter for
something less of an eye sore.
Paul
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Re: Thoughts on air driven sponge filters
By: Duck4cvr Date: January 23, 2015, 10:01 pm
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I just added one to my 55, which is already filtered with a two
sunsun 303b's. The sponge filter is a designed for a 40 gallon
and it's beast. I can see why several DIY guys use a modified
version.
Forrest(Cichlidman09) has his ultimate filter
HTML https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hoT1SovfCIM
I really like Joey's all in one filter.
HTML https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lYyEHHmeZY0
As for aquarium real estate, pondguru is a pretty neat idea.
Almost not a sponge filter though.
HTML https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OIrQ_RWGRKI
I think a setting up filtration system combining all three would
be pretty cool.
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Re: Thoughts on air driven sponge filters
By: Duck4cvr Date: January 24, 2015, 12:16 pm
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oh and I like how you don't have to turn off a sponge filter
during a water change.
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