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Post Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 2:07 pm   A Howto video on setting up a XP Filter.

I'm sorry if this counts as spam, that's not my intention.
I found this video very helpful and hope it will for the rest of you :mrgreen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32CkKhXip_k
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Post Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 3:46 pm   Re: A Howto video on setting up a XP Filter.

That's not spam, it's very useful for seeing the internal parts of the filter.

Keep in mind that filter media setup is incorrect. I assume that's an XP2 she's showing us because it only has 2 baskets. The bottom basket it correct with the coarse sponge on the bottom and the finer sponge on the top. The next media should be the chemical media in the bottom of the next basket. She's got bio rings in there. The bio rings should be on top. You want the chemical media to grab any dissolved organics before the water reaches the bio media or the bio media will just get caked up with gunk and clogged reducing the surface area of the media and making it less effective.

Water flows from the bottom up through the media baskets in an XP filter.

This thread shows the proper way to setup filter media for turtles:
viewtopic.php?f=9&t=30145
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