Felt roller filter instead of filter socks

[DrWupass]

Hi all with the need to replace my home made sump because of a Reoccurring leak I got to shopping around. ? bad for my budget but good for my fishes ?. As I tend to be mr overkill. But it always ends up with less maintenance for me. Anyway I came across this new to me automatic mechanical filtration. Auto felt roller. Anyone have any thoughts opinions experience good or bad to offer?

 

[TwoHedWlf]

haha, Neat.

 

[DRUKENMUNKY]

Cool concept...its ok ...I tried it and ended removing because of smell from the dirty side of roller. Just ended up throwing in polyfill and replacing weekly

 

[TwoHedWlf]

Cool concept...its ok ...I tried it and ended removing because of smell from the dirty side of roller. Just ended up throwing in polyfill and replacing weekly

I was cleaning my filters yesterday and thought, I wonder if you could make an automatic cleaning filter by
Use a solenoid to cut off the flow of tank water
Piston in the filter squashes a bunch of filter sponges a couple times, this should squeeze most of the muck out into the water
Flush the mucky water down a drain.

 

[DRUKENMUNKY]

They have those already in the form of canister pond filters . They have paddles that can ring out sponges without opening the filter in back flush mode. I am using the oase green reset 40 as my mechanical pre filter before water hits sump