Things you didn’t know about aquarium substrates.

Things you didn’t know about aquarium substrates.





Things you didn’t know about aquarium substrates. snow balls 4u • 7 hours ago Hey doc, I would also like to report that the kitty litter BCB baskets for some reason have a uncanny ability to clear the water column. I've placed a 3-inch puffer fish in a 8 gallon bucket with a 10x5 inch BCB basket and some amazon Frogbit and an air stone temporarily for a few days. The water in that bucket was crystal clear the entire way through. It was kind of amazing as I've always expected the water to be extremely cloudy looking or dirty when you do this. Nope, completely crystal clear the entire time. I then placed that same BCB basket into a 20-gallon long tank, same thing happened. The water went from semi-cloudy to crystal clear overnight. I have a 40-gallon shrimp tank that has suffered from constant dustiness as I had removed some fluorite substrate in the tank. The tank also has a 1 inch layer of decaying leaf litter + cholla wood mix for the shrimp to eat, which also contributes to the constant cloudiness. It's not just tannins, it's legitimate cloudiness from free floating particulates. I have a very fine sponge filter running with a powerhead and it helps, but can never clear it up completely. I am going to make another large BCB basket and put it into that shrimp tank. If that shrimp tank also clears up immediately overnight, I think I really have to make a record a YouTube video just to share my results. Maybe it has something to do with the kitty litter acting sort of like activated carbon and scrubbing the tank clean of particulates, either way there is 100% something going on with this filter that nothing else I've ever tested can do as well. Best part is these large BCB baskets don’t even require any electrical outlets to run and can be made for $10 and 1 hour of time.