Marineland HOB filters

[ccurtis]

Those of you that use marineland HOB filters, I'd like to see how you have set up your filters if you are not using the cartridge's. What are you for media and how do you have it arranged in the box? 

[starsman20]

I have 3 of the 100b penguin. Normally 39 dollars, online match for 12.95 and I had 10 dollar off coupons so they cost me 3 bucks each. 2 are on 20 longs, the other is on a 10. Have played with many configurations but this is what i ended up doing. Ive taken 1 cartridge and cut off the floss and removed the carbon. It is now just a divider. On the back half i cram as much polyfill as i can get in there. In the empty space bewteen the divider and the biowheel is a filter bag of ceramic rings. Sometimes on top of that I drop a small bag of purogen. There are intake sponge filters on them as well and each tank also has a coop sponge filter. I change the floss about every other week. I doubt the biowheel really does anything but about every third day I shake them off. They quit turning if I let them go a week. Seem to get waterlogged and too heavy to turn.
I also have an unused 350 that needs a tank to go on.

[starsman20]

One other note. If you put a filter bag in be sure the entire bag is inside the box. They do wick. Don't ask how I know. 😁