biological

I have a canister filter and recently bought a second one to replace my orginal one. Both have been running together for two weeks, so I’m going to take the old one out. Should I just keep the biological media and put it in the new one or use as much of the old sponges as possible. Preferably...

If I got an innovative marine 20g peninsula AIO, is there a wrong way to set up the filtration? I was thinking put a UV sterilizer in the first compartment, protein skimmer in the second, and heater with return pump in the third and final. The main issue I see is the lack of biological in the...

Hi everyone, Do I need ceramic rings when I have lots of live rock and crushed coral sand? I have so many bio rings in the pump compartment of my JBJ 45 AIO. I had to use a mesh laundry bag to put it in so I can remove it to get to the pumps. I am used to having a freshwater aquarium which...

Hi everyone, hope you're all doing well! I recently treated a couple fish with copper power in my quarantine tank, however, the quarantine tank used to be my main display so I left half of my biological media in that quarantine tank and added copper power to the system (copper levels register at...

Its amazing how many of us still dont fully understand the varying types of filtration available .. I created this video to hopefully explain it in a level of detail everybody can understand :) I hope you enjoy it!