Around here the brand "Aquaclear" filter is popular. It is a
plastic box, that hangs on the tank side, with a siphon and a motor
pump arangement that recirculates the water through a open cell sponge
and a carbon or other media bags, and that's it.
Is this what you mean by sponge filter?
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>From: peter.unmack at ASU.Edu[SMTP:peter.unmack at ASU.Edu]
>Sent: Monday, 20 January, 1997 23:44
>To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au
>Subject: Re: [RML] Fish Rooms
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>On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Ernest Burns wrote:
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> 3. Do you use individual sponge filters and heaters or a central
> filtration system?....
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>WRT filters. Keep it simple. I have tried every type of filter including corner box filters to a system of twenty odd tanks all fully recirculating through an algal turf filter. I now have the most simple spronge filter in all my holding tanks (from fry
to breeder tanks). They are simple, they don't leak, they clean with a squeeze, and they save me heaps of time. The only problem I have is that sometimes rainbows (M. parkinsoni) deposit their eggs on them in preference to mops.
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>Cheers
>
>Rob Wager
>Freshwater Fish Biologist
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