Filter Media - All Pond Solutions 1400EF Instruction Manual

Filter Media

The filter media provided with your external filter and there positioning within
the media trays are designed to give complete and optimum filtration for your
tank:
BOTTOM MEDIA
TRAY
MIDDLE MEDIA TRAY
TOP MEDIA TRAY
Important! Always use water from your fish tank to clean your filter media. Do
not use mains water or any cleaning products to clean your media.
The suggested filter media order is ceramic rings at the bottom, bio balls in the
middle and active carbon at the top with one biochemical cotton in each tray,
providing mechanical, biological and chemical filtration as the water flows up
through the media baskets.
Please remember to change your activated carbon at least every 2-3 months as
after this time it is possible that the carbon can have a negative effect on your
aquarium as the very waste it removes can be released from the carbon back
into the aquarium.
When cleaning mechanical or biological media, NEVER rinse with tap water or
use any soap or detergent, only your aquarium water. The best time to rinse your
filter foams, bio balls and ceramic rings through is when doing a 10 / 20% water
change as you can use this water to wash the media through.
When replacing media in your filter, do not replace more than 50% of your
media at once. This is to ensure that the nitrifying bacteria present in the old
media are able to repopulate in the newly added filter media.
Ceramic Rings
Bio Balls
Activated Carbon
Mechanic Filtration
Biological Filtration
Chemical Filtration
Removes small
waste particles from
the water.
Creates environment
for nitro-bacteria to
cultivate and help
oxygenate the water.
Removes soluble
waste, chlorine and
cultivates nitro-
bacteria.