Mark Hewitt
Aquarium Advice FINatic
I have an Interpet PF2 internal filter.
It has two initial chambers of equal size, one of which contains carbon and the second contains foam. Then it goes through a biomedia chamber which has some sort of pellets inside.
I've seen it written several times that carbon isn't much use if you aren't removing meds etc from the water and in fact can actually harm the tank if left in too long?
That being the case would my filtration capability improve if I swapped out the carbon and replaced it with a second foam pad instead? Thus giving the bacteria more surface area?
It has two initial chambers of equal size, one of which contains carbon and the second contains foam. Then it goes through a biomedia chamber which has some sort of pellets inside.
I've seen it written several times that carbon isn't much use if you aren't removing meds etc from the water and in fact can actually harm the tank if left in too long?
That being the case would my filtration capability improve if I swapped out the carbon and replaced it with a second foam pad instead? Thus giving the bacteria more surface area?