Bio Balls

[smithy]

hi, i have been succesfully keeping fish for 7 months now and have yet to lose a fish i did nt have a clue how to keep fish when a friend gave me his old tank, and now i know he didnt either. although i ve learned so much in the past few months i am having problems finding info on bio balls. i got rid of my friends tank and brought a stunning new tank witch uses these in the filter box, problem is i do not know how long before i need to change any help out there

 

[jamesgang]

hi, i have been succesfully keeping fish for 7 months now and have yet to lose a fish i did nt have a clue how to keep fish when a friend gave me his old tank, and now i know he didnt either. although i ve learned so much in the past few months i am having problems finding info on bio balls. i got rid of my friends tank and brought a stunning new tank witch uses these in the filter box, problem is i do not know how long before i need to change any help out there

Hello, I'm not sure what type of filter you're working with,but I use bio balls in my wet / dry fiter and I never change them. Unless I misunderstood the term change, they dont need replacing just keep them clean. With my set up there is a fiber pad that keeps the debris from collecting on them but as with most filters you will get a slight film that will start to form on them but this is teaming with the benefitial bacteria that you really want so I would only rinse the filter pad in water when it gets to restricting the flow of water and depending on the size of your filter arrangement just put your bio balls in a container of your aquarium water and gently stir them up to get any of the built up mulm that you see. I hope I understood your quetion and this is of some help. I have had to do this bio ball rinse only once in the last year. when I finish with this rinse I will pour some of the rinse water back into my tank as this is still full of that bacteria that eats the nitrites. It will cloud the water a bit but all of this just gets reabsorbed into my filtration system and substrate and helps to bolster my bacteria colony.

 

[jamesgang]

hi, i have been succesfully keeping fish for 7 months now and have yet to lose a fish i did nt have a clue how to keep fish when a friend gave me his old tank, and now i know he didnt either. although i ve learned so much in the past few months i am having problems finding info on bio balls. i got rid of my friends tank and brought a stunning new tank witch uses these in the filter box, problem is i do not know how long before i need to change any help out there

Hello, I'm not sure what type of filter you're working with,but I use bio balls in my wet / dry fiter and I never change them. Unless I misunderstood the term change, they dont need replacing just keep them clean. With my set up there is a fiber pad that keeps the debris from collecting on them but as with most filters you will get a slight film that will start to form on them but this is teaming with the benefitial bacteria that you really want so I would only rinse the filter pad in water when it gets to restricting the flow of water and depending on the size of your filter arrangement just put your bio balls in a container of your aquarium water and gently stir them up to get any of the built up mulm that you see. I hope I undertood your question and this is of some help. I have had to do this bio ball rinse only once in the last year. when I finish with this rinse I will pour some of the rinse water back into my tank as this is still full of that bacteria that eats the nitrites. It will cloud the water a bit but all of this just gets reabsorbed into my filtration system and substrate and helps to bolster my bacteria colony.

 

[adamgreen240]

the boi balls colonise freingly bacteria for bio filtration