This channel is great! 🐟 I love the way in which you present your information! Thank you very much! I have bio balls at home and haven't used them too much. But now I know what to do!

I've been making my own bio-media out of, terracotta clay pots, crushed into pieces. Then put in media-bags and placed in my hang on back filters

I use bio balls anywhere I want, because they acquire the bacteria that can keep an aquarium in a cycled mode that means I'm less likely to have a fish tank that is initially harmful for fish I introduce into the tank. I utilize waste filled sponges as bacteria holders. The ceramic media is harder to use, because you need to stream aquarium water through them that is already filtered from waste and particles that can reduce their usability. Poly fiber fine media needs to be used on streaming water prior to contact to the ceramic media. You do not need to disturb the ceramic media if the fiber filtration media is doing its job, but you do need to frequently clean and replace the fiber media on a weekly or monthly basis if you want clear water.

Kindly provide an Amazon link for the bioballs shown in your video WITHOUT any foam inside

The best use is both. Bioballs = Mechanical + heterotrophic biofilter. Ceramic nitrogen cycle. So use both i filter. Bioballs first then ceramic with fine filter first to avoid clogging.

So the bioballs with the foam inside them are a bad idea because of clogging?

i hope you can take time to read this thoroughly- both bio balls and ceramic media are supposed to house nitrifying bacteria exclusively. nitrifiers are entirely aerobic and proliferate in high circulation regions like filters and exposed hardscape surfaces inside the tank. denitrifying bacteria exist entirely in zones of poor (O2 dissolved) water flow i.e. the floorbed, substrate layer, primary pumice layer. in short no media is bad but bio balls and k1 are indeed superior due to their immense surface area. for a denitrification colony you can add media in mesh bags and set them below the substrate layer. nitrification is also the more important process than denitrification as nitrogen in its least harmful nitrate form will be controlled by water changes. (it also feeds plants). PS. and again denitrification almost never occurs significantly in filters so theres is no reason to not use superior bio balls or k1.

I prefer ceramic rings.

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very good video

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