I expect to only clean this foam every 6 to 12 months after the filter slows down, realistically 4 months though. The longer your filter ‘gunks’ up the better water you will have. I made this change after learning that you don’t want to clean your filters regularly or too often. So now I have about a 300 gph flow rate.Īfter 14 hours overnight, the water is perfect with no issues, as expected with new data received. Much smoother outflow because the old media was being clogged up and restricting the flow. I now turned the knob 2 notches down from max and it is perfect for me now. Now I turned up the flow and it came out even better! It started to overflow around the 90% flow rate (each notch on the knob is about a 10% change). Not touching the flow the water came out just fine. Once installed on the tank I noticed an immediate difference. You can add ¼” to the width with no issues. So you need to make sure that you really don’t cut the foam the same width. The difference from the bottom width to the top is a good ½ inch. The inside basket is NOT a perfect square. Here is some information for Tidal filters that you should know. Six 1 inch pieces fill the basket perfect to the top of the outflow. 10 ppI is the mechanical and the 20 ppI (or above) is the biological.Īfter a quick rise, just stuff it in the basket. I am using 3 layers of 1inch blue 10 ppI foam on the bottom and 3 layers of 1inch black 20 ppI foam for the top 3 layers. First was to increase the size of the holes in the basket to 5/16 inch from ¼ inch for more flow through the new media.Īfter that was to cut out the new Poret foam I am switching too. If I turned up the flow, it would overflow completely even with the ¼” holes drilled in the basket, so the flow was reduced to about 20-30%. Mainly because I thought slow flow through the filter was better. The Tidal was turned all the way down to minimum about 20% of the flow rate. Next was some fine filter Polyfill (at top) followed by 4 bags of Matrix. Some instant noticeable differences occurred also that I will mention below.Īt the bottom of the basket I had the standard foam insert, then 2 Pinky Flosses. I have switched up my media in my Seachem Tidal 75 after finding out that Matrix was a poor choice over the last year.
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