Review on 🌊 Enhance Water Clarity with the Marineland SeaClone Foam Cartridge by Josie Stevens

Love the fact that there are two sponges each fitted with two mesh screens/pads to prevent the sponges from collapsing and getting into the mesh filter air to be sucked recording. I use them on all my power filters to keep fish and shrimp from getting sucked into the propellers. So you can be sure that your aquarium inhabitants are safe. Take it out of the box, wash it, and then install it on the mesh filter inlet pipe (with or without filter, depending on the filter inlet pipe). Then squeeze the sponge several times to release the air. Another benefit is that it complements biological filtration by providing more surface area for beneficial bacteria that break down fish waste into less toxic forms. It buffers your filter during filter media changes as you are not throwing away all the good bacteria when you change your filter pads. An added bonus is that when starting a different tank you can place the new sponge over the existing air intake and use the old one to get through the biological starting process and activate the new tank faster by pushing the sponge into the new one . Filter and aquarium to disperse the biological bacteria settled on the sponge throughout the aquarium, and then put it in the inlet of a new powerful filter to get started quickly and reduce the time it takes to clean the aquarium for new fish to make it biologically safe. To clean these sponges - if you notice that the overflow capacity of your power filter is decreasing - take a bowl of water from the aquarium - remove the sponge - squeeze the sponge several times in the water bowl - drain the water from the bowl (if you have indoor plants)). , these are excellent nutrients for them) - pour more water from the reservoir into the bowl and repeat until you've squeezed most of the smaller debris particles out of the sponge - then place the sponge back onto the filter inlet and you're done . Do not wash the sponge with tap water. The chemicals in tap water kill your beneficial bacteria and can cause a cloudy aquarium until enough new bacteria have time to colonize and bring the dead sponge back to life. Alternatively, you can replace a badly clogged sponge with a new one. This product is a versatile workhorse. I highly recommend it.