Mowbz
Fish Herder
Filter floss. Lots of us have it, but what do you do with it?
Granted, as a base for bacteria its not the best material, but the amount of time it spends in our filters, it alive and usable.
Ive been thinking, could we not be promoting and chucking this to the newbies for startup tanks? I normally run mine for 6 weeks, rinse mine out, run it for another 3 or so, then bin it after. I imagine most do something similar, or just chuck it without washing.
About 1/5 or 1/4 of my media is floss, and i chucked this in the bin the other day when i changed it for new stuff. While its probably no good for filtering out crud anymore, could we not be making better use of it?
Im happy to post it for cost of postage only if it help others get tanks off the round quicker and its going to be more fish friendly.
How could we facilitate this? A post in the for sale section (But what newbs check there?) A thread on people willing to donate media (never updated?) or via a sticky in the Welcome to TFF section? Put a link of the Beginners resource section under fishless cycle?
Ideas?
Granted, as a base for bacteria its not the best material, but the amount of time it spends in our filters, it alive and usable.
Ive been thinking, could we not be promoting and chucking this to the newbies for startup tanks? I normally run mine for 6 weeks, rinse mine out, run it for another 3 or so, then bin it after. I imagine most do something similar, or just chuck it without washing.
About 1/5 or 1/4 of my media is floss, and i chucked this in the bin the other day when i changed it for new stuff. While its probably no good for filtering out crud anymore, could we not be making better use of it?
Im happy to post it for cost of postage only if it help others get tanks off the round quicker and its going to be more fish friendly.
How could we facilitate this? A post in the for sale section (But what newbs check there?) A thread on people willing to donate media (never updated?) or via a sticky in the Welcome to TFF section? Put a link of the Beginners resource section under fishless cycle?
Ideas?