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| Marine Depot Triple GFO and Carbon Filter media reactor. Pretty universal as it can be used for many applications. Since I no longer have live rock in my aquarium, I am using this reactor for my biological filtration with Seachem Matrix stones. |
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| Seachem Matrix 2 Liters used in my aquarium. Seachem sells bio media as Matrix and Denitrate. What's the difference? Matrix can be used for a wide variety of flow rates and is comparable to live rock. The Seachem Denitrate should only be used with very slow flow rates for anerobic bacteria to reduce nitrates. |
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| Rinsed the stones, then soaked them for 24 hours in saltwater and Seachem Stability |
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| The matrix comes in various shapes, colors, and sizes |
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| I used Seachem's Stability to soak the Matrix rocks. I got the idea of soaking the bio media directly from Brightwell Aquatics as they recommend that you soak their X-Port Bio media for 24 hours in Microbacter7 prior to using them in the aquarium. |
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| Popped off all the plastic screens and removed the paper filters since they're not needed with the Matrix stones. |
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| Filters removed and plastics screens placed back in the caps |
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| 2 Liters of Matrix fills up all three cartridges perfectly |
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| Powered by Cobalt Aquatics MJ900, but I could have easily gone with the next size down. |
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| Placed the biological filter behind the sump. |
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| Photo of the sump. Missing from the sump are my two reactors for carbon and phosphate that were being cleaned while picture was taken. |
