Can I Add More Cirax To My Filter?

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Offline Mervyn

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Can I add more Cirax to my Filter?
« on: November 27, 2012, 04:42:20 PM »
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Hi,
Wondering if I can put another Cirax box/media in my Juwel 180 filter and if so where in amongst the other filter media? There is enough space.

At the moment I have (from bottom up) 2 fine blue sponges, 1 Cirax, In the next basket up I have 2 coarse blue sponge, green nitrate sponge and a white poly sponge to finish.

Just thinking that maybe the more filtration the better or am I mistaken?  :-\

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Re: Can I add more Cirax to my Filter?
« Reply #1 on: November 28, 2012, 10:01:03 AM »
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You can add another cirax box if you want to, there's nothing wrong with doing that.

There will come a point when adding more media is of no extra benefit. The amount of fish in a tank can only feed a certain number of bacteria. These bacteria will spread out into all the available media. If you had an under-rated filter in a very overstocked tank there wouldn't be enough media to house the amount of bacteria the fish needed to cope with their waste. In this case, more media would help, as would a bigger flow rate as an underpowered filter wouldn't get the ammonia and nitrite laden water into the media fast enough to stop the level building up.
If there is already enough media to house the bacteria needed by the fish, adding more will just thin out the density of bacteria in any given bit of media as the bacteria migrate into the new media.

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Re: Can I add more Cirax to my Filter?
« Reply #2 on: November 28, 2012, 10:08:47 AM »
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Ah right, Thanks Sue

A Selection of Fish in my Fish Community Creator Tanks
Bristlenose Plec (2) - Golden Barb (8) - Angelfish (8) - Platy (8) - Dwarf Gourami (1) - Panda Cory (8) - Rosy Barb (7) - Boeseman's Rainbowfish (7) -
Note: The user may not necessarily own these fish, these are tanks that they may be building or researching for stocking purposes


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