Re: Anerobic substrate... was Failure keeping cichlids in the longterm

[Kathy Olson <kathy@thekrib.com>]

Helen,

We rinse our sponges in the tank water, have for years.  Gotta love those
sponges, so easy to use. 

I have heard of people even going so far as putting the sponges in the
dishwasher periodically (ACA conversation), a portion of us were horrified
but it worked for them.  (that is clean dishwasher, no hint of soap of
course).  They spawned apisto's quite well, in fact if I am remembering
right it was one of the people Dave Soares would use as a backup.
ie...when he got cool fish to spawn, he would keep some and send some to
1-2 other people to use as a backup spawner so if there was a die out, of
if one person couldn't spawn them there were a few others.

Kathy


On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Helen Burns wrote:

> Here I go, by rinsing the sponge under the tap are you not destroying the
> valuable bacteria.  You should be rinsing the sponge in the 'tank' water.
> Helen
> 
> From: Bill Phillips <WilliamPhillips2@access.net.au>
> > Why use sponge filters ? - they are cheap, very easy to maintain (rinse
> > under a tap each week) and can easily transferone to a new tank and hey
> > presto you have a fully operational mature filtration system.
> > Bill
> 
> 
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