Went searching for blue foam and...

[Turbo]

...I hit the mother load! Since the nearest PetSmart, etc. is an hour drive I went to WalMart first. While they had blue foam filters they were in a cartridge form, no 'U' sleeve...

So I headed to the only other option in town, a 'mom and pop' pet store. I went in, told the owner was I was looking for and looked down and saw a HUGE spool of blue foam and a bunch of pre-cut sheets! I bought two 1.5'x .5' pieces figuring that would suffice to experiement w/ this mod. Sweet find indeed

 

[smonomo]

hmm...it doesn't look like the Marineland Hot Magnum blue foam/sponge, looks more like blue Fluval too me..

Looks like it might be a good filler material though.

 

[Turbo]

Yeah, I realized that after looking at the close-up pics of the Marineland foam...lol...I'm about to try it and see how it works

 

[seminolewind]

Is it spongy with little holes?

 

[Turbo]

It's spongy but more like 'batting' so I think it's the fluval type.

 

[pmd]

I'd like to try this 'blue' foam stuff, looking at petco site,
is this stuff:

'Rite-Size Foam/Filter Sleeves for HOT Magnum'
Foam sleeve custom designed for HOT Magnum Media Container and Micron Cartridge

the same thing?

 

[eclypse]

Yes thats the right blue foam pmd.