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Filter material
There are many kinds of filtration materials available which can be used with a canister filter and things can quickly seem to become a bit complicated.
Especially because there are also quite a few brands that offer these materials. It's not about what brand of material that you've got to use because many different brands promote different looking filtration material while essentially they perform the same task. Besides, a ceramic pipe is a ceramic pipe, right?
It's more about understanding which task a certain material is supposed to perform and also what the goal is that you want to achieve with your filter. In this section I want to target the actual filtration aspects of the canister filter:
- Mechanical filtration
- Bio filtration
- Chemical filtration
The terms mentioned above might sound all techy and stuff but those different types of filtration will be explained next on separate pages.
You'll discover that there's nothing complicated about it. Your canister filter will take care of it. You only have to load your filter with the right material.