bio media

[schance]

besides bioballs what can u use in a wet dry thats cheap but works well?

url's are appreciated

[Somefishguy]

plastic pot scrubbers

[cichlid1409]

+1

[newb]

hair curlers from the dollar store.

[wesleydnunder]

plastic easter basket grass works great!

Mark

[Iceeeyyyy]

old school plastic army men

[geoff_tropheus]

I've seen people use packing peanuts. Anything you can put in there that will have surface area and not clog and is safe for aquatics is going to work nicely.

This stuff is real cheap, and I use it alot in my canisters.

http://www.cpraquatic.com/products/biobale.html

This stuff comes in 1-gallon bales that you can buy at just about every online retailer for $6-8 per bag.

A typical wetdry would take 2-3 bales of it.

[JStrider]

Chop up a 3/4in pvc pipe into little pieces... tumble in a 5 gallon bucket with sand and some big rocks

[schance]

what do u mea by tumble and what does that do?

[Somefishguy]

Shake it all around. Basically you want to create a rough sandpaper type surface on the pvc so you have larger surface area for bacteria to colonize.

[schance]

i see . im kinda liking that sounds lke the cheapest idea aswell

[luxtralarge]

cut out straw..collect some from several fastfood and you will be good to go. Free.

[geoff_tropheus]

straws work really good too

[geoff_tropheus]

they have a tendency to float somewhat...

They all FLOAT down here!!!

[wesleydnunder]

They all FLOAT down here!!!

Now I have to try to sleep tonight with scary Pennywise quotes rattlin' around in my knot. Thanks Geoff.

Mark