Thoughts on some of the filtration, the poor mans ultima has worked flawlessly it seems to need a blower or a larger pump I can hear the media tumbling when on backwash but now that I actually spent the coin on a ultima filter you can hear the difference the ultima filter really tumbles the media rigorously so it takes less backwash water to properly clean filter. That’s the only difference besides media escaping now with that being said I can go about 6 months on the sand filter before I see any flow change but it takes about 300-400 gallons to backwash/rinse to see no muck coming out of site glass I do about 500 gallon water change in this tank anyways. As of right now I just backwash the sand filter more frequently once a month this was just some playing around with the setup to find a sweet spot and some of my observations.
Closed loop filtration makes it a breeze to do water changes in my tanks drains them super fast if your not backwashing you just flip the multiport valve to waste and it bypasses the filter and dumps water right out for water changes it’s the filling that takes forever.
Closed loop filtration makes it a breeze to do water changes in my tanks drains them super fast if your not backwashing you just flip the multiport valve to waste and it bypasses the filter and dumps water right out for water changes it’s the filling that takes forever.
