Re: [GSAS-Member] UGF and substrate

[Shango Los <shango@shangolos.com>]

Why do you run a HOB and a canister?  Shouldn't the canister be plenty?


On Dec 7, 2009, at 1:56 PM, Phil Lacefield Jr. wrote:

> For what it's worth, I ran a very nice UGF on my 90gal planted for years and 
> years, with regular aquarium gravel, and grew all manner of plants.  But 
> when we had the big club buy on Turface (or whatever that stuff was) a 
> couple years back, I removed the UGF and the gravel, and the root growth 
> into the actual filter plates wasn't that bad at all. 
> 
> I took it out more because I didn't want the fine grains of the new sub to 
> get in there and much things up, so now I run straight Turface (or whatever) 
> with a big HOB filter and a Fluval 404, and the plants are doing as fine if 
> not finer than they did with the UGF. 
> 
> YMMV, of course :-) 
> 
> Phil
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