Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!hoptoad!amdahl!amdcad!decwrl!ucbvax!sdcsvax!sdcc6!ix426 From: ix426@sdcc6.UUCP Newsgroups: alt.aquaria Subject: Re: Fishtank Moved Message-ID: <3525@sdcc6.ucsd.EDU> Date: Thu, 3-Dec-87 15:27:04 EST Article-I.D.: sdcc6.3525 Posted: Thu Dec 3 15:27:04 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 6-Dec-87 20:10:14 EST References: <1753@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> <4370@sol.ARPA> <1755@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> <15631@watmath.waterloo.edu> <2438@gryphon.CTS.COM> Reply-To: ix426@sdcc6.ucsd.edu.UUCP (tom stockfish) Organization: University of California, San Diego Lines: 24 Keywords: Filtration, Carbon, Charcoal, Coal In article <2438@gryphon.CTS.COM> richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes: >Polyester fibre >--------- ----- >This floss is the same stuff that you can buy REAL CHEAP in store for >stuffing pillows, but it seems to mat real easy, and I don't use it. >I dont use the petshop brands for the same brand either. What I have found >to be very usefull is Marineland brand pads - they are 1/2 inch thick >pads that you cut to fit. They seem to hold up quite well and do a good >job. I normally buy things and use them for the something that they were never intended, but I never do this for anything that goes in my tank. Most home furnishings products contain some sort of (highly toxic to fish) flame retardent. Many plastic garbage bags contain anti-mold/mildew compounds (lethal to fish). I pay the exorbitant pet store price, and assume they use untreated materials -- except for products intended for human food handling/preparation (e.g. food storage bags). -- || Tom Stockfisch, UCSD Chemistry tps@chem.ucsd.edu