As a turtle owner, first thoughts when the canister was opened: holy cow is that still clean. Lady: omg is that filthy 😆😆 That’s not dirt, that’s shit. Lol. Which you obviously know bc you just mentioned using it for fertilizer. Make sure you’re preserving your beneficial bacteria. Turtle girl has a great fx4 cleaning video where she just uses two buckets of tank water to get extra dirty media clean. A lot dirtier than that, lol. Rinsing your bio stuff especially in regular water kills everything & is basically starting your tank over which to my invading can cause bad bacteria blooms. I use scrubbies as an extra cheap bio media layer too 😆
I clean my fx5 every 4 months. I did do it after 2 months and it was not bad. So did it again after 3 months and it was almost no change. After 4 months it is pretty bad. I change rinse the pads every 4 months. About every 8 months I change half the pads for new ones.
not always depends on the water condition being used as well as water temperature being used . I have perfectly balanced ph well water with no chlorine or chloramines and rince all my media with it and haven't had a spike in over 4 years
Get rid of all that crap in your baskets. Put in lava rock or a proper media. Top tray put fine pad w/ medium pad on top. Any chemical you want in the very bottom.
@@SG-Cichlids👍 I have used them, they work fine but don't last. I like lava rock personally, it lasts and is very inexpensive. If it works for you great.
@@ericnortan9012 I've never had a sponge not last but I could see it happening but sponge provides far more surface area and better conditions for bacteria. This has been tested and proven.
@@SG-Cichlids maybe it's the composition of our hard water, but anything plastic only lasts a couple years before it starts breaking down. I noticed a piece floating around in my tank, opened up my filter, though they were in decent shape for the most part, you could see they were breaking down. Maybe it was just crappy scrubbies but I went back to foam over lava rocks to be safe, I've never had any issues that way as long as you do appropriate maintenance. I don't doubt their ability to hold bacteria, that's why I tried them in the first place.
@TaLaPredator prove me wrong. Studies have already been done on all the different media and sponge out performed all the ones mentioned above. They were all tested both established and new. Sponge still won. The only thing that beat it was a moving bed with k2 media. Not everyone has room for a moving bed so by default sponge wins. Specifically 30 ppi sponge.
As a turtle owner, first thoughts when the canister was opened: holy cow is that still clean.
Lady: omg is that filthy
😆😆
That’s not dirt, that’s shit. Lol. Which you obviously know bc you just mentioned using it for fertilizer. Make sure you’re preserving your beneficial bacteria. Turtle girl has a great fx4 cleaning video where she just uses two buckets of tank water to get extra dirty media clean. A lot dirtier than that, lol. Rinsing your bio stuff especially in regular water kills everything & is basically starting your tank over which to my invading can cause bad bacteria blooms. I use scrubbies as an extra cheap bio media layer too 😆
I knew this was going to be a good video when I saw someone there was drinking a rip it !
I clean my fx5 every 4 months. I did do it after 2 months and it was not bad. So did it again after 3 months and it was almost no change. After 4 months it is pretty bad. I change rinse the pads every 4 months. About every 8 months I change half the pads for new ones.
You used clean water to clean the sponges? You should use water already in the filter or from the tank or you kill all the bacteria...
No I used water from the tank.
not always depends on the water condition being used as well as water temperature being used . I have perfectly balanced ph well water with no chlorine or chloramines and rince all my media with it and haven't had a spike in over 4 years
I think it all depends on how much you feed an how many goldfish you have
You think goldfish are bad lol wait until you have chiclids :P
Get rid of all that crap in your baskets. Put in lava rock or a proper media. Top tray put fine pad w/ medium pad on top. Any chemical you want in the very bottom.
You couldn't be more wrong. Pot scrubbers or sponge grows more bacteria than "biomedia".
@@SG-Cichlids👍 I have used them, they work fine but don't last. I like lava rock personally, it lasts and is very inexpensive. If it works for you great.
@@ericnortan9012 I've never had a sponge not last but I could see it happening but sponge provides far more surface area and better conditions for bacteria. This has been tested and proven.
@@SG-Cichlids maybe it's the composition of our hard water, but anything plastic only lasts a couple years before it starts breaking down. I noticed a piece floating around in my tank, opened up my filter, though they were in decent shape for the most part, you could see they were breaking down. Maybe it was just crappy scrubbies but I went back to foam over lava rocks to be safe, I've never had any issues that way as long as you do appropriate maintenance. I don't doubt their ability to hold bacteria, that's why I tried them in the first place.
Those pot scrubs don't do anything
they will actually host bacteria if left to do so. no different than bio balls
Pot scrubbers and sponge grow more bacteria than ceramic, sinter, or matrix. It's the best bio media there is.
@@SG-Cichlidslol no they are not.
@TaLaPredator prove me wrong. Studies have already been done on all the different media and sponge out performed all the ones mentioned above. They were all tested both established and new. Sponge still won. The only thing that beat it was a moving bed with k2 media. Not everyone has room for a moving bed so by default sponge wins. Specifically 30 ppi sponge.
nice video! thanks
Its fish shit! Not bacteria!
Gold fish r filthy
Bacteria or dirt? It's literally fish shi[
Never clean a filter after a month.