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Originally Posted by apt220
...I burned through the stuff pretty fast though. About 1.5 lbs for me lasted for six days which is when the pH wouldn't max out as high. I am one guy in a 1 bedroom apartment who is gone 9.5 hours per day for work with the windows closed 24/7.
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I wonder if a container with too many intake holes might cause the media to deplete faster? If the intake is significantly larger than the output line, would room air enter the container and then drift back out into the room without being pulled into the output tube? A worst case example would be putting the media in an open bowl, with the skimmer tube pulling air from the bottom of the bowl. Sure, the air that reaches the tube would be processed by the media, but the media surface exposed to the room air at the top of the bowl would deplete almost immediately. I’d think you’d want the openings in the container to be just slightly larger than the cross-section of the tube leading to the skimmer. Thoughts?