Fluidised Bed With BCN009PLUS

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Fluidised Bed With BCN009PLUS

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hi everyone

seen this on ebay, the last lot went for about £50 including P&P, and I was wondering if any of you had used it before.

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100 litre bag of BCN009PLUS

I like the idea of it acting as a fluidised bed in my sump, but htere's a little bit of me saying stay with the siporax and bioballs!

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Hi Rob,

I missed this one, I must admit that I haven't come cross this stuff before. Pretty much anything can be chopped up and made into filter media. That said I would personally stick to media that has a proven track record, siporax and other similar splintered glass media is going to be hard to beat for surface area that can be colonised by bacteria.

Presumably you are going to use the bioballs as a "settling" media in the first chamber(s) of your filter and the siporax will be used as biological media elsewhere.
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Post by Rob »

Pretty much that. Prefilter sponges on all tank overflows, then into medium oscilated foam, then into filter wool, into bioballs mixed with the fluidised filter media, and out the other side!

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