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daveaball

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Hi Guys I am fairly new here so please bear with me.
I have been looking threw the mod section and getting more confused so I am asking for simple advise, which cart works best.
I have tried the spring, ok but I am loking for something not as fiddly.
I have also tried cutting the poly to half an inch and refilly 3/4, not great.
Has anyone used the blue foam mod and what does that intale and where do I get this foam, many thansk in advance , great site
 

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I did some searching for aquarium filter refills in Ireland and UK, couldn't find anything I was familiar with, but:

You might look for coarse filter foam in a pet shop which sells aquarium supplies . It must be untreated (no chemicals in it) and you don't want the stuff with carbon in it. Be sure to wash and dry it well before using in cartridges.

Then there's this:
Fluval Underwater Filter U4 Foam Pad

This is the type of foam we're looking for:

from Wikipedia:
Reticulated foam is a very porous, low density solid foam. 'Reticulated' means like a net. Reticulated foams are extremely open foams i.e. there are few, if any, intact bubbles or cell windows. In contrast, the foam formed by soap bubbles is composed solely of intact (fully enclosed) bubbles. In a reticulated foam only the boundaries where the bubbles met remain.

Good luck to you.
 
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