marcusbacus
New Member
I bought some zeolites (ammonia removal rocks) to use in my main tank for a while (and they worked as expected), and now I'm planning to use them in the betta tanks, that are unfiltered and have to have their water changed quite often because of the ammonia as everybody knows. The problem is that I've heard that these zeolites work better when placed inside a filter to take advantage of the water flow, and as the betta tanks are unfiltered, can they work in there without the water flow?
To use in the main tank, I did some mini "pad" with a bit of perlon (the media filter thing), placed a few rocks (very few!) inside the pad and placed it on top of the media cartridge (my filter is a Whisper 20). I just removed it from the big tank and placed as it is in one of the betta tanks, but if it is not going to work, I'll remove it ASAP. One advantadge I see on placing it there is that it might already have some bacteria attached in that perlon...
To use in the main tank, I did some mini "pad" with a bit of perlon (the media filter thing), placed a few rocks (very few!) inside the pad and placed it on top of the media cartridge (my filter is a Whisper 20). I just removed it from the big tank and placed as it is in one of the betta tanks, but if it is not going to work, I'll remove it ASAP. One advantadge I see on placing it there is that it might already have some bacteria attached in that perlon...