Bio Balls vs Scrubby pads, the final showdown!

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ogre929

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Ok so I've been reading about a lot of people using scrubby pads in their wet dry filters instead of bioballs saying that they are better. People have even thrown out their bioballs that they had and put in scrubby pads. This I don't understand. They both work the same. All it's doing is providing a place for bacteria to colonize. And since most everyone, myself included, "overfilters," there's no difference between the two in my opinion. Anyway, that is my rant.

What does everyone use in their wet dry's? I'm all for scrubby pads don't get me wrong, this is a guy who builds his own wet dry's out of old IO salt buckets. If you can do it cheaper and it works the same I'm all for it.
 
The Bio Balls I have in my filters cost a lot I know I have £40 in one filter. They have been doing the job and doing it well for ages now. So I won’t be changing mine the other plus is being plastic you have the advantage of a life times use and if you ever did have to break every thing down and sterilise it and start a fresh they can have boiling water put over them and will come up good as new.
 
i got bio balls and soon to have some cell pore media been thinking about scrubbies for a 5ft tower filter im gonna build
 
My largest wet/dry holds over 40 gallons of bio-material. That's over $400 of bio-balls. When I stopped using that filter, I scavenged bio-balls from it, over the years, for other filters. When I wanted to set it up again, I went with the scrubbie pads. It cost me about $40 to fill the bio-chambers.
I found out that the bio-balls I had been using have 160 sq/ft per gallon of surface area for bacteria to adhere to. The scrubbies have 370 sq/ft of surface area per gallon. That's better than twice the surface area of conventional bio-balls at 1/10th the cost.
 
:iagree: scrubbies kick bio- ***
 
stotty said:
The Bio Balls I have in my filters cost a lot I know I have £40 in one filter. They have been doing the job and doing it well for ages now. So I won’t be changing mine the other plus is being plastic you have the advantage of a life times use and if you ever did have to break every thing down and sterilise it and start a fresh they can have boiling water put over them and will come up good as new.
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Should have got them on EBAY i got 500 bioballs for £8.50 plus £4.50 P&P bargin !!!
 
I didn't know there was such a debate. BALLS vs. PADS?
 
both of them do the job right but it only depends on how much nitrate you want in your tank. it's the beneficial bacterial that's important. if you have an overload of fish them go for pot scrubbers if not them stick with the bioballs if you have them... if you don't have them then get a pot scrubber. saving money is not foresaking your fishes. :D
 
i use bio balls... i thinks it more to do with the price of the media tho
 
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