I'm thinking of setting up a sump primarily filled with poret foam. This will provide good mechanical filtration but the finest pore size of the foam (30ppi) is still too coarse to filter out really small particles.
The tank will have a coast to coast overflow with only a single return bulkhead so it won't be convenient to add a separate closed loop.
My thought for really polishing the water is to plumb a NuClear canister filter after the return pump from the sump loaded with a 100 micron or 50 micron cartridge (I already have the canisters and an appropriate pressure rated pump). It seems to me that this would really polish the water and might work even better than having the canisters on a separate closed loop because most of the large particulate matter will be picked up by the media in the sump so the canister wouldn't have to be cleaned as often.
Just want to make sure I'm not missing something. Any thoughts as to why this would or wouldn't work?
The tank will have a coast to coast overflow with only a single return bulkhead so it won't be convenient to add a separate closed loop.
My thought for really polishing the water is to plumb a NuClear canister filter after the return pump from the sump loaded with a 100 micron or 50 micron cartridge (I already have the canisters and an appropriate pressure rated pump). It seems to me that this would really polish the water and might work even better than having the canisters on a separate closed loop because most of the large particulate matter will be picked up by the media in the sump so the canister wouldn't have to be cleaned as often.
Just want to make sure I'm not missing something. Any thoughts as to why this would or wouldn't work?
