Marineland Penquin Filters With Bio Wheel, Question.

[Whitester]

Hey I have a question I am hoping someone can help me with. I have a Marineland Penquin 200 Filter, with bio wheel. I was wondering if I added ceramic rings inside the filter for addtional biological filter media. I think there is enough space to add some, maybe 10 - 20 ceramic rings. Has anyone ever attempted this? Does anyone recommend this? Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

PS. The ceramic rings would be in addition to the filter pads that are standard, and already installed in the filter.

 

[Whitester]

Nobody has any advice? C'mon someone must know if I can or should do this? Help me out plz! I am talking about something like THIS

 

[waterdrop]

I'd answer if I could but I just have no idea whether they would slow down the flow too much. If nobody that's actually tried that or who has a filter like that and has a better perspective answers (it -is- full into vacation season now, so discussions are bound to get a lot spottier) then you could always just give it an experimental try! You could just judge the speed of your biowheel going around and perhaps feel your current output with your hand and then judge later whether you think you've slowed it too much and still later just see if any other things seem to have gone wrong. Certainly we all like ceramic rings as biomedia, its quite popular with the cannister owners to have a big tray of that to start off the filtration process.

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