poret filters

shamrock · Dec 31, 2019

hey all,

does anyone use poret filters in their sumps? just wanted to hear your experiences with this and if holds up over time? is it easy to clean? realiable?

thanks
sk

King Turkey · Dec 31, 2019

Would seem like a pain to clean. No experance with them. Filter socks I think would be better.

shamrock · Dec 31, 2019

as per the video on fish2water.co.nz, you only need to bang it on a wall and rinse it out... then reuse... seems easy enough and apparently they work long-term without degradation - hence i wanted to confirm this with someone

reefwiser · Dec 31, 2019

They last a long time. Use them for bacteria growth and not as filter socks.

Silent · Dec 31, 2019

reefwiser said:
They last a long time. Use them for bacteria growth and not as filter socks.

Yes, mainly used for biological filtration, not so much for mechanical.

King Turkey · Dec 31, 2019

Silent said:
Yes, mainly used for biological filtration, not so much for mechanical.

I see? wouldn't just having enough live rock be better?

Silent · Dec 31, 2019

Depends what your use for it is. Used a lot in freshwater. Many use them in saltwater for quarantine tanks.

King Turkey · Dec 31, 2019

Silent said:
Depends what your use for it is. Used a lot in freshwater. Many use them in saltwater for quarantine tanks.

I see that's a great idea for a Q tank.

reefwiser · Dec 31, 2019

Yes sponge filters are great to have around easy to put in a sump and pull out for a quick Qt tank. When my fish room was set up I used them a lot easy to run a bunch of tanks with one big air pump

shamrock · Jan 1, 2020

was thinking of adding these to sump along with seachem matrix... ? overkill

reefwiser · Jan 1, 2020

Bacteria will only grow with enough food. So the bacteria will only colonize to the point where there is enough Ammonia food for them. You can place a lot of substrate for them to colonize but they will not full the whole area with bacteria. The rock in the aquarium will process most of the ammonia that the tank produces as the bacteria there has greater access to it. This is what we found out when Live Rock came into the hobby.