Just Starting Out.

[Shlick]

Hello, I recently aquired a used freshwater setup. It was going to be thrown away so I brought it home. It includes a 37 gallon hexagon tank Proquatics 1600 external filter, Rena 200watt heater oak stand and hood light, plus all the decor.
I got it all cleaned and setup. It's been running for a few days now. Thanks to this forum I have started a fishless cycle. My question is on the filter media. The model I have is discontinued and I can't find media for it. I washed the course sponge that came with it, then adde a layer of cut to fit medium bonded pad, then a layer of fine pad on top of that, then I put a bag of ceramic tubes on top of that. Will that be O.K.?

Thanks for any advice you can give.

 

[Curiosity101]

That sounds absolutely fine. So long as the pads you cut down to size are big enough then it really isn't going to be a problem. On the rare occassion when I replace pads I don't tend to bother buying the 'correct' ones. I just buy a couple of large foam pads from ebay and cut them to size

 

[Shlick]

Thanks, I wanted to make sure there wasn't a problem with my filter media before I got
to far in to my fishless cycle.