I tend to think that sumps always get overworked. This is how im doing my sumps.
Re-configuring My Sumps with Poret Foam
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If your not getting ammonia or nitrites i wouldnt bother wasting the money on new media. I love poret foam, ive used establshed poret foam in tanks without media, its almost as dense as a sponge filter but wouldnt it be easier to figure a way to use filter socks ? They make life easy just swapping them out
Are you going to just use the Poret Cubes that are sold or going to stack the sheets vertically ling a super thick Mattenfilter?
I used poret in place of baffles in my sump and was very satisfied with the results
I would highly recommend you look at filter socks for mechanical. I recently converted my sump from sponges to socks and love it. You can get the holders that clamp on the sides of the aquarium on Amazon for around $10-15 and then the aquarium socks can be had for about $40 for eight of them. They literally take me less than a minute to change out and can then be washed in the washing machine to come out looking brand new. If you get good mechanical filtration then you won’t have to worry about rinsing your bio media because it would get dirty.
Thank you all for the thoughtful comments.
I am very fond of keeping things simple and inexpensive. The resale value on aquarium gear is low and the market is sluggish.
I typically use a plastic bin of floss with a plastic grid as my prefilter, and that gets changed as often as it gets dirty.
Everything like lava, pot scrubbers, gravel & ceramic Bio-media etc comes after, and the poret comes last.
I'm using it only as a bio-filter.
I looked on the Swiss tropicals website and they have some stuff I hadn't seen before. I see they have a new plan for a poret-only sump. It's emerged, and has multiple layers. Looks entirely doable, but I'd still put floss on top.
I don't have any official mattenfilter yet. Just these Bacto-surge things (as seen in my Sump photo above) in differing sizes.
Yeah it's not optional. First time you miss a detail you find that out.
By the way I did not make that drawing just for this discussion, nor did I make it in preparation to build the actual sump you see in the photos. I just went through the hardware store and picked up a bunch of stuff, and built that thing on the Fly.
But I made the drawing later so I could explain to somebody over on Fishlore how the sump worked.
With that being said, you do have me absolutely pegged. I would go out to lunch with five other engineers and they all wanted to talk about baseball. I wanted to talk about the theory of transactional quantum mechanics.
The possibility that spooky action-at-a-distance extends with the concept of time being a dimension, and therefore spooky action can occur across time . . .err...sorry....
Oh look! Ziegfeld Follies with snails!
I am very fond of keeping things simple and inexpensive. The resale value on aquarium gear is low and the market is sluggish.
I typically use a plastic bin of floss with a plastic grid as my prefilter, and that gets changed as often as it gets dirty.
Everything like lava, pot scrubbers, gravel & ceramic Bio-media etc comes after, and the poret comes last.
I'm using it only as a bio-filter.
I looked on the Swiss tropicals website and they have some stuff I hadn't seen before. I see they have a new plan for a poret-only sump. It's emerged, and has multiple layers. Looks entirely doable, but I'd still put floss on top.
I don't have any official mattenfilter yet. Just these Bacto-surge things (as seen in my Sump photo above) in differing sizes.
Yeah it's not optional. First time you miss a detail you find that out.
By the way I did not make that drawing just for this discussion, nor did I make it in preparation to build the actual sump you see in the photos. I just went through the hardware store and picked up a bunch of stuff, and built that thing on the Fly.
But I made the drawing later so I could explain to somebody over on Fishlore how the sump worked.
With that being said, you do have me absolutely pegged. I would go out to lunch with five other engineers and they all wanted to talk about baseball. I wanted to talk about the theory of transactional quantum mechanics.
The possibility that spooky action-at-a-distance extends with the concept of time being a dimension, and therefore spooky action can occur across time . . .err...sorry....
Oh look! Ziegfeld Follies with snails!
Haha, you sound like the type of guy i'd like at a dinner party......to get rid of the guests!!!! Haha.
No problem, but I have a better solution. I'll send you this recipe for jalapeno, brussel sprout and broccoli quiche.
The first guest that farts is going to clear out all the rest of them immediately.
The first guest that farts is going to clear out all the rest of them immediately.
I didn't know about the cubes. I've been cutting chunks up!
If you look on the Swiss tropicals site, they show the layers of foam layed flat in the sump.
The top layer emerges from the water.
BTW there's an obvious mistake in my drawing above.
Who has sharp eyes?
(Clearly not me. I mainly retired early because of eye problems.)
Who has sharp eyes?
(Clearly not me. I mainly retired early because of eye problems.)
