spankna

The 1st chamber is the harder of the two chambers. The key to doing it is to break the silicone seal all the way around the floor first. Then like Bowie said, don't be afraid to use some force.

I would also remove the false floors in chamber 1 & 2 if you haven't done so. The removal of the false floor in chamber 1 is a MUST. I put my heater as low as possible in chamber 1 so the heated water rises creating a bit more flow/suction through the lower intake (I like to think it creates more flow).

I personally have and like the inTank mediabasket. In my basket, I have purigen on the top shelf, chaeto with a submersible light in the 2nd chamber, and rubble rock in chamber 3. With this setup, have had no issues with chaeto blocking the return pump intake. If you don't have a media basket, buy enough rubble rock to have about 2-3 inches in the bottom of chamber 2. This acts and a screen for the chaeto and a live filter(you can add something like Microbacter to help it start). I know people with BC14's here locally that run just rubble rock and have enough live filtration that they don't need anything else. IMO, not having the sponge is a good thing as you don't have to remove and clean it periodically. Replace it a bag of Chemi-pure Elite.

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