Trickle Filter media

[wickedfrags]

Thought I was missing something here...but this methodology went the way of the 2lb cell phone...much has been learned/improved since the 80's as noted above. I would recommend investigating what many others are doing with their sumps on this board, and others boards, and I am sure you will find this practice is not used any longer. Not saying you can not achieve your goals using them, but I would research further. Cheers.

Originally Posted by Gizmo

supposidly it has more surface area and better flow for the nitrifying bacteria to attach to. And it takes up way less space

[Gizmo]

Seeif someone wanted to have a heavily stocked tank without using live rock or to ogment the live rock one would use either a canister filter or a trickle filter. I prefer the trickle filter. I'm sure there are pureists that would condem this thinking, but why reinvent the wheel. We know nitrifying bacteria can colonize in any of these methods, but we prefer the more natural way of lr. Lr isn't always the best solution, especially when you want display tanks with little to no objects , just fish, so trickle filters work for these instances.