7 gal AGA minibows

[Beverly]

Originally Posted by Mother Reefer

I'm a little lost on the Mini foams, what are they and where do you get them & I have filter media (from a couple)from FW systems, are those the ones you're talking about? you don't run the carbon packets in it, you run the mini-foams? I'm sorry for all the questions I'm trying to picture this.

I ran AquaClear Minis, hang-on-back filtration systems often used for fw, on both the 2.5g and the 7g. Mini foams are the foams designed to go into the media basket which fits neatly into the media chamber of the AC Mini. To allow room for the heater to go into the media chamber, we pulled the media basket and stuffed foam around the heater with the Mini foams. My husband also cut a hole in the removable plastic top of the filtration system with a Dremel.

Here's a pic of what the tanks look like from the back. You can see the heaters sticking out of the AC Minis, more so on the 2.5g:



Mini foams can be bought at the chain lfs in packs of 3 (cheaper than buying them singly). We usually buy ours at Superpet.

Hope that gives you a better idea of what we used