{"id":100206,"date":"2023-10-23T07:48:15","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T05:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aquainfo.nl\/?p=100206"},"modified":"2023-10-23T07:50:12","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T05:50:12","slug":"7-1-1-cost-of-filter-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aquainfo.nl\/en\/7-1-1-cost-of-filter-media\/","title":{"rendered":"7.1.1. Cost of Filter Media"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This article has been rewritten about a dozen times. The availability and price of all the aquarium media have been on a rollercoaster. Up-down, up-down. Trying to pin the numbers down has been difficult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And there is a big problem with something called \u201cbuying in bulk\u201d. If one has a large aquarium with a large sump one can buy two cubic feet of K1 media for a cost of about $1 a liter. If you have a small bottle filter and you want to buy a liter of K1 you will pay $15 a liter. By the same token, you cannot buy plastic pot scrubbers in true \u201cbulk\u201d So you will pay about $0.50 to $1.00 per pot scrubber regardless of the amount you need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And this varies a huge amount depending on where you live. Plastic pot scrubbers are dirt cheap in some countries and very expensive in others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So here is the \u201clatest and greatest\u201d data with the caveat that this might have all changed. What will not change is the huge difference between the top media and the lowest media. Not only is the lower media very expensive, but it also doesn\u2019t work very well. This double-whammy effect is just huge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n