Dual media basket help

[ajhudson15]

Currently running a IM 40 gallon long AIO. I have a media rack on one end with filter pad, floss, carbon, and biomedia. The other end currently has a filter sock which i hate and i bought another media rack.

My question is, do i set up this one exactly the same way or do i set one up with carbon and bio media only and the other with only filter pads and floss?

 

[DavidA]

Currently running a IM 40 gallon long AIO. I have a media rack on one end with filter pad, floss, carbon, and biomedia. The other end currently has a filter sock which i hate and i bought another media rack.

My question is, do i set up this one exactly the same way or do i set one up with carbon and bio media only and the other with only filter pads and floss?

Depends on what your goals are. I also have an IM 40 gallon AIO. I run bags of carbon and GFO in one. In the other I have a 200 micron filter pad (easy to cut to size) which I rinse or replace every other day and have Algae Barn media disks for pods. I run the filter pad in only 1 basket below the overflow

 

[ajhudson15]

Depends on what your goals are. I also have an IM 40 gallon AIO. I run bags of carbon and GFO in one. In the other I have a 200 micron filter pad (easy to cut to size) which I rinse or replace every other day and have Algae Barn media disks for pods. I run the filter pad in only 1 basket below the overflow

yea im thinking this route. i dont really want to have both running exactly the same. i figured one entirely for biomedia and carbon and one for filter floss/pads would be ideal. i also didnt want to put filter pads on both because im a little ocd about trying to save all the larger pods i can get of out the pads lol