Jlombard80
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
Hello all,
I have a pen plax cascade 1000 running on my 75 gallon cichlid tank. It’s about a month old and I am going to be replacing the filter media this week. It has three trays and water flows from the bottom up, so the bottom tray has my mechanical media in it including a coarse sponge and a finer sponge, the middle tray will be getting a Seachem Purigen bag and also has a filter pad, and the top tray has a pad and will be getting seachem matrix added to it. My question is about the middle and top trays, when adding the purigen bag and the matrix where exactly in the tray do I put them? Under the pads? On top of the pads, do I take the pads out completely and just add the new media? Any suggestions or thoughts on my set up would be greatly appreciated.
John
I have a pen plax cascade 1000 running on my 75 gallon cichlid tank. It’s about a month old and I am going to be replacing the filter media this week. It has three trays and water flows from the bottom up, so the bottom tray has my mechanical media in it including a coarse sponge and a finer sponge, the middle tray will be getting a Seachem Purigen bag and also has a filter pad, and the top tray has a pad and will be getting seachem matrix added to it. My question is about the middle and top trays, when adding the purigen bag and the matrix where exactly in the tray do I put them? Under the pads? On top of the pads, do I take the pads out completely and just add the new media? Any suggestions or thoughts on my set up would be greatly appreciated.
John