I am wondering if media bags with bio balls is a decent amount of biological filtration vs bio bricks? I realize the bio bricks are advertised as having way more surface area but I was able to get bio balls for dirt cheap.
I have a few different things going on in my sump to try to get as much biological filtration as possible. Sump has skimmer (turned off for now) plus a bunch of rock in it so that I didn't need as much in the display tank, plus I am trying two media bags with Marineland Bio-filter Balls instead of bio bricks for now. Just wondering if using bio balls in a filter bag like this is actually doing what I intend which is to add some biological filtration that can be easily removed and dropped into a temporary qt tank if/when needed. Or am I just wasting space with these two media bags and bio balls?
I used 2 packages of these (180 balls) cause they were like $6 total and just put them in 2 BRS media bags. Funny cause they were $3/ea. When i bought them. Now they are $12/ea. Either way it seemed much cheaper than buying bio bricks for the same purpose.
I have a few different things going on in my sump to try to get as much biological filtration as possible. Sump has skimmer (turned off for now) plus a bunch of rock in it so that I didn't need as much in the display tank, plus I am trying two media bags with Marineland Bio-filter Balls instead of bio bricks for now. Just wondering if using bio balls in a filter bag like this is actually doing what I intend which is to add some biological filtration that can be easily removed and dropped into a temporary qt tank if/when needed. Or am I just wasting space with these two media bags and bio balls?
I used 2 packages of these (180 balls) cause they were like $6 total and just put them in 2 BRS media bags. Funny cause they were $3/ea. When i bought them. Now they are $12/ea. Either way it seemed much cheaper than buying bio bricks for the same purpose.