Dish Scrubbers?

[azotemia]

do they really work as oppose to using bio balls for wet/ dry system? thanks

 

[doresy]

Why bother, when the proper thing is not dear?

May contain detergents or bacteriacides anyway

 

[OldMan47]

I seldom disagree with Doresy on things but this time I will. The plain plastic pot scrubbers work better than the bioballs because they have a much larger surface area in a given volume than the bioballs or almost any other biomedia. The price difference is not much, as he said. To me the difference is in performance. I doubt anyone could sell bioballs that looked like pot scrubbers because people would take one look and say "hey I can get those things a lot cheaper". I am guessing that is why they don't look like the scrubbers.

 

[raptorrex]

I seldom disagree with Doresy on things but this time I will. The plain plastic pot scrubbers work better than the bioballs because they have a much larger surface area in a given volume than the bioballs or almost any other biomedia. The price difference is not much, as he said. To me the difference is in performance. I doubt anyone could sell bioballs that looked like pot scrubbers because people would take one look and say "hey I can get those things a lot cheaper". I am guessing that is why they don't look like the scrubbers.

would agree with this whole heartedly. though unsure on the surface area, comparison. defiantly worth looking at though.

 

[doresy]

we all go with gut feeling......mine says if it's made for cleaning dishes, it ain't going in my tank no ways.

No denying foam media has greater surface area than bioballs (and I don't use 'em anyway) but horses for courses imo

Each to their own OldMan ....none taken

 

[azotemia]

thanks for the insight guys!

 

[shroob]

I got pot scrubbers in both my wet/drys. Cheap as chips and do the job. If you just used ceramic rings it would cost alot, I estimate that for both my trickle filters I would be looking at £200+, and theres no way I'm paying that. As long as they havn't been treated with chemicals they will be fine. I remember when I walked into Uni, sat down opened my stuffed bag and packets upon packets of pot scrubbers fell out, wasn't easy explaining why I had 12 packets of pot scrubbers.

And according TO THIS ARTICLE pot scrubbers beat bioballs on surface area and cost/surface area. Pot scrubbers costing $10 per cubic foot of surface area, bio balls costing $59. The article doesn't list ceramic rings unfortunately but the cost would probably be even higher.

 

[raptorrex]

efisubstrat pro offers 4,500 cubic feet per litre, that's 00.2p per foot. if my math is right. seems a lot less than the link would have you believe, most, media costs. again its down to my math, so i may be wrong!

 

[nitro7]

ive used them in my pond filter for about 3 years with no probs

 

[Schmill]

Where do people in the UK buy these things? I've yet to see them - lol