Fluval 404 media

splatee

Member
Hi everyone,
I just took down our 240 gallon freshwater setup to turn into a new home for our eels. We were using two Fluval 404's on it and i would like to continue using them along with the CSS skimmer. I have the usual media in the fluvals, bio rings and the foam inserts. What media should i leave in or take out. Should i remove the foam pads so they won't be nitrate factories or could i leave them in and just rinse them evey couple of weeks? I mainly want to use the fluval for biological filtration sine i will only have about 70lbs of live rock and i am going to use the 150lbs of Texas Holley Rock that was already used in the previous tank setup.
Thank you
 

lion_ish

Member
the old rock will become live if it is in the tank with LR the filters will be fine once you clean them of course
 

rcbc3384

Member
Thats a great question about the foam pads. I have a 55gal filtered by a Fluval 404 and I always wondered whether I should take out the foam pads. I'm curious to see what your responses are.
 
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