If the bulk of your aquarium hobby time is spent looking at a calculator or a computer screen, rather than at your fish.you probably don't want a sponge filter.īut.if you don't need or want your tanks to be stocked to the ragged edge of their ability to sustain life.and if you smile at the notion of a filter that requires essentially no maintenance for months or years.and if the idea of a highly-effective device with no moving parts and nothing to go wrong is appealing.then you have found your filter. If you feel that water-changing is over-rated and want to forego that drudgery by the careful application of liberal amounts of chemical additives, exotic filtration methods and, of course, money.you probably don't want a sponge filter. If you are shooting for a spotless sterile tank environment where each leaf, rock and tacky decoration gleams in algae-free perfection.you probably don't want a sponge filter.
If you are a gearhead and just love the spinning, whirring, buzzing, percolating, flushing and other assorted mechanical tricks of power filters.you probably don't want a sponge filter.
If you do complex calculations to figure out if you can jam one more Neon Tetra in your tank without exceeding its capacity as ordained by some arbitrary chart or website.you probably don't want a sponge filter. If you worship at the altar of turnover rate, you can achieve your wish by powering them with a water pump or powerhead, but you lose much of their low cost wonderfulness. Sponge filters are the cheapest to buy, the cheapest to operate, the most foolproof and the easiest to maintain type of filter available.
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