Biomax 1 ceramic ring per gallon 3 78 l.
Ceramic ring aquarium benefits.
I may still give ceramic bio media a try though.
There will come a time when you eventually need to replace the ceramic rings in your aquarium.
Many filter kits already include ceramic rings in the box.
If all carbon bits are removed there s no problem if the rings are stained black anyway.
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I use about 3 per gallon but i m always like that.
The rings are bulky packing loosely allowing for water to flow easily over all the surface of the rings which allows more of the chemicals to be treated by the filter.
Ceramic rings are more associated with mechanical filtration.
I don t know how good their going to be but they are about 3 times cheaper than riesling rings.
The advancements will always probably revolve around binding and export.
For me i find that the benefits of ceramic style media far outweigh that of plastic bio balls but then i have a very strict maintenance routine.
The rings are also inert so they won t kill your precious swimmers.
While some ceramic rings come with their own filter media bag others come loose.
Why not just use biomass or bio rings instead.
I m planning on adding a sunsun uv canister filter to my im fusion 20 and i might put some ceramic rings in there.
1 biomax ring at least 100 ft 2 9 3 m 2 so that s a lot of area per little ring.
As stated numorous times that s just a rough estimate but to be safe at a very minimum one per.
Bio balls on the other hand last almost forever.
Simply add them to your aquarium filter.
Same affect and ceramic rings but a lot more porous a lot more surface area for beneficial bacteria.
The spherical ceramic balls seem to be their choice for bio media.
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Chemical filter media the most common one is activated carbon which eliminates dissolved organic compounds from aquarium water.
The ceramic rings are porous with extremely high surface area allowing these colonies to grow in abundance.
Using ceramic rings couldn t be easier.
At least according to the good folk at eheim.
That is probably the limitation that we will always have in our tiny closed systems.
I m not convinced bleaching anything is good for a tank.
If your filter didn t come with any ceramic rings or you want to purchase more grab some here or from your local fish store they are very affordable.
