Picked up some matrix today for my QT tank. I was wondering if you can take it out and bleach it between QT treatments or should I just toss it and use new each time?
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I use a mix of these two Fluval bio products. Works good. Small mesh bag, mix of the two products, soak with BioSpira. Sits on top of my foam pad in my Aquaclear HOB. Very clean water. Never noticed any absorption problems with copper. Ammonia? What ammonia?
Do you think it makes a difference between running the media in a reactor? Like what you have going on in the test tank. Or spreading the media out over the bottom of the tank.
If on the one hand the sintered glass media does not remove the copper from the water column, on the other, copper has a broad bactericidal effect, which may interfere with media colonization and its ability to control ammonia ... I think that it is not possible to rely too much on a biological filter subjected to the action of copper independently of the media, but I hope to be mistaken.
@Humblefish I'm sorry man.. didn't mean to hijack. I clicked the wrong link in the "my posts" tab