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07-12-2004, 07:10 AM
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Got Fish? HUH? DO YA??
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Australia
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Fluid Bed Filters
Anyone use one?
I have never heard of anyone using one, and ive stumbled across one on special, so im going to get one and give it a go.....
They are described thus
"Uses quartz-sand as the bio-media which has a 1000 times greater surface area than the same volume of rock.
Its effect for cultivating nitrifying bacteria is 5 times greater than a trickle filter and 10 times (probably more) greater than a sponge surface.
A power head stirs the sand (which never has to be changed) continuously and this rolling action enhances the metabolism of the beneficial bacteria."
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James
GOT FISH? We Have!
www.gotfish.com.au
Mobile aquarium leasing, installations, maintenance, and supplies.
NSW, Australia.
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07-12-2004, 04:57 PM
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ROOTS...ROCKS...REGGAE
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: south suburbs of Chicago,Il USA
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Sorry mate, they're not to popular over here. I don't know anyone who uses one
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07-12-2004, 06:54 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Harriman TN
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What I hear is that they work kind of like a DSB,the problem is if the current gets turned off even for a little bit,all of the stuff in there starts to rot,and when you turn the flow back on it all goes in your tank......
Again,this is hearsay on my part,but thats what I read.
hth
John
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07-12-2004, 09:43 PM
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Going Broke
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: OR
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dump the sand and use it as a phosban or rowa phos reactor. That's the new thing going around here.
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07-12-2004, 11:19 PM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Southeast MI
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Originally Posted by Voyeur
What I hear is that they work kind of like a DSB,the problem is if the current gets turned off even for a little bit,all of the stuff in there starts to rot,and when you turn the flow back on it all goes in your tank..
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That's what I have read also!
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07-13-2004, 05:26 AM
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Got Fish? HUH? DO YA??
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Australia
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Ok so i get to be the experimental one!
lol...
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James
GOT FISH? We Have!
www.gotfish.com.au
Mobile aquarium leasing, installations, maintenance, and supplies.
NSW, Australia.
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07-13-2004, 06:27 AM
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Admin/ Super mod
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: New Castle, Delaware
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they use one at the LFS i go to .. looks ok.. but they do not know a lot about it... please keep us posted..
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07-13-2004, 06:36 AM
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Got Fish? HUH? DO YA??
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Australia
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Yeah ill report back with progress. 
Purchasing in 2 days, will set up and see how it goes...
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GOT FISH? We Have!
www.gotfish.com.au
Mobile aquarium leasing, installations, maintenance, and supplies.
NSW, Australia.
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