yea i agree.....lave rock sounds like the best idea i heard in a long time as far as media goes - 100% au naturale
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This is the ten gallon sump, that runs my 60 jack tank, and 50 rainbow tank. The 3 gallon bucket has 3 inches of lava rock topped, with 3 inches of pillow stuffing, a drip plate and curtly using a filter media bag for large partical removal only. 50 percent of the bucket bottom is cut out in alternating slits. Have an air stone, and heater directly below bucket two inches of lava rock in tank bottom. And pump has micron filter in housing. I surrounded the pump in pillow stuffing, to slow clogging, and it's woked great a whole week and the floss nearest the pump was still white
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I bought my Pond Matrix from Pet Solutions. Much cheaper than Amazon and I had a coupon to their site, which took another 10% off.
http://www.petsolutions.com/C/Pond-Biological-Media/I/Pond-Matrix.aspx
damn some setback, the laguna 2400 I bought off ebay for $112 the seller just email me and told me theyre out of stock and wont be getting anymore in. cheapest ones I can find so far is $190. anyone know a site I can get a better price?
Nvm, just bought a max flo 2900 for $175 free shipping
Okay so 2900 GPH pump. So filter socks, Im thinking 2x 200 microns 7" x 16'
http://www.amazon.com/Inch-Ring-Fil...8&qid=1460432700&sr=8-34&keywords=filter+sock
http://www.amazon.com/Inch-Ring-Fil...8&qid=1460432700&sr=8-34&keywords=filter+sock
Go for 100 micron socks. Buy atleast 6. You can have 2 in the sump and 4 that get cleaned and swapped out with the dirty ones. Washing machine, no soap....a few cycles.
As far as media. I like ceramic and or k1 moving bed style.
On my 225g i have ceramic. On my 450g I have both.
As far as media. I like ceramic and or k1 moving bed style.
On my 225g i have ceramic. On my 450g I have both.
100 microns? I dont want to clean out my socks more than once a week. 100 microns seems rly small
http://www.amazon.com/Inch-Filter-S...d=1460434303&sr=8-6&keywords=filter+socks+100
That's why I'm going with 200 microns on my new sump. Plus, I'm going to put some poret foam after the socks to add in mechanical and biological filtration.
