Originally Posted by
KDodds
Funny thing there... output... the more time the media is in contact with the water, the more efficient the filter. But that's double-edged. The more contact time in the filter, the less being taken in from the tank. If you throughput too fast, though, back into the tank goes what you'd hoped to filter out. Sooo... less media, faster throughput probably will never win over more media slower throughput as a broad generalization, given similar methods in terms of efficiency.