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I have a magnavore WD-125 Wet/Dry filter on my new 120 gallon Mbuna tank. It has a 15 liter bio-chamber which I filled with bio-bals I had laying around from a long time ago. I was doing some research and saw that Seachem Matrix bio media has like a huge ammount of surface area and would be much better to use as a bio media. Question is do I need it? How can I tell if 15 liters of bio balls will be sufficient to handle the bio-load I put on the tank. It is going to be pretty heavily stocked, around 25-30 cichlids, and 10 catfish. According to Seachem 1 Liter of martix equals 17 liters of bio-balls, and I should only need 1.5 liters of Matrix for my size tank. Also says using the pond matrix (larger chunks) is better for drip style wet/dry filters.
I was thinking of buying a 4L container of the pond martix and using that on the bottom of the chamber area, then getting 4L of the regular smaller matrix and putting that on top of the larger stuff.
Is this overkill? Am I paranoid and the bio-balls will be fine? Help!
I was thinking of buying a 4L container of the pond martix and using that on the bottom of the chamber area, then getting 4L of the regular smaller matrix and putting that on top of the larger stuff.
Is this overkill? Am I paranoid and the bio-balls will be fine? Help!