Filter socks with wet dry?

[Rachel.Cody]

Has anyone ever done this? It would make maintenance on my wet/dry so much easier but I'm not sure theres a way to do it. Because ideally you would want the filter sock over the drip tray, but then you have to worry about splash and what not everywhere. The only way I can see it working is either a.) building "walls" around the filter sock or b.) taking out half if not more bio balls and moving the tray down. It would make my life a lot easier as I'm changing/cleaning pads about every 1-2 weeks and im also running a emperor 400 hob for mechanical. Anybody doing this or is it not worth it?

 

[LukeOscar]

Has anyone ever done this? It would make maintenance on my wet/dry so much easier but I'm not sure theres a way to do it. Because ideally you would want the filter sock over the drip tray, but then you have to worry about splash and what not everywhere. The only way I can see it working is either a.) building "walls" around the filter sock or b.) taking out half if not more bio balls and moving the tray down. It would make my life a lot easier as I'm changing/cleaning pads about every 1-2 weeks and im also running a emperor 400 hob for mechanical. Anybody doing this or is it not worth it?

I never understood anyone having a canister running when they have a sump. I personally ran a sump souly to get out of the maintenence of a canister.

Instead run a power head or 2 placed so the sump gets all the mechanical done too. Maybe even a bigger pump.

Just my 2c so don't take it negatively. But if your sump isn't enough and you need a canister it's either time for a new sump or you built yours under spec for the setup.

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[Rachel.Cody]

I never understood anyone having a canister running when they have a sump. I personally ran a sump souly to get out of the maintenence of a canister.

Instead run a power head or 2 placed so the sump gets all the mechanical done too. Maybe even a bigger pump.

Just my 2c so don't take it negatively. But if your sump isn't enough and you need a canister it's either time for a new sump or you built yours under spec for the setup.

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My sump is new (bought about two weeks ago) so im letting it get seeded right now. Its an eshopps wd-200 so itll be an overkill when its ready, its on my 75g poly growout. My flow is 550gph, which is low for mechanical but i chose a smaller pump for better bio filtration. Im just looking for a way to cut down on cleaning and changing my mechanical pads. I guess it doesnt help that theyre pretty fine pads either.

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[krichardson]

Looking forward to reading replies to the thread topic...as I mentioned in my thread I used to run a sock which I positioned just under the incoming hose.The sock sat on top of the drip plate that covered the bio media.

 

[davenmandy]

Look up mudbuttjones threads. He made a herbie style overflow with socks i believe out of a plastic drawer tower. Genius in my eyes.

As for canister on sump, i have a spare fx5, it wouldn't be used on anything else, so why not plug it in and run it on my sump to polish? We spend so much time over killing everything, if you got the plug room it will definitely do no harm.

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[LukeOscar]

Look up mudbuttjones threads. He made a herbie style overflow with socks i believe out of a plastic drawer tower. Genius in my eyes.

As for canister on sump, i have a spare fx5, it wouldn't be used on anything else, so why not plug it in and run it on my sump to polish? We spend so much time over killing everything, if you got the plug room it will definitely do no harm.

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It's just not the way I see it. When you have 14 tanks running I don't feel any need to add a canister just because. Any polishing the fx5 is doing could be achieved in the sump at less maintenence and cost in the end. Just my opinion again.

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[duanes]

I use filter socks in my sumps, but I don't use drip trays.
I just put biomedia in mesh bags and scatter them submerged throughout the sump.
Or in biotowers, simply lay a scrubby under the sump effluent.
Makes maintenance easy.

 

[LukeOscar]

When I ran my wet dry I teed off the pump and sent some flow back into the drawer tower. It was already completely filtered mechanically so I never ever had to clean the tower. Just the socks.

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[Rachel.Cody]

Looking forward to reading replies to the thread topic...as I mentioned in my thread I used to run a sock which I positioned just under the incoming hose.The sock sat on top of the drip plate that covered the bio media.

Did you have any pads under the sock? I just worry about running a sock on top of the tray because it would have no lid and i would have some splash i imagine.

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[mudbuttjones]

Look up mudbuttjones threads. He made a herbie style overflow with socks i believe out of a plastic drawer tower. Genius in my eyes.


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Thanks for the praise. I appreciate it.

I actually didn't do socks, just an extra chamber of water to allow some full siphon plumbing to be submerged on top of a wetdry. If you've got the head room you could make socks happen


http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/f...-sump-on-the-cheap-(ballin-on-a-budget)/page6


Look at some reef setups. Alot of guys have a sock chamber that overflows a baffle to a drip plate. The only downside is that to effectively do the wetdry half of the sump has little water in it after the wetdry

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