eric.battani
Well-Known Member
I wanted share something with everyone. This is one of the biggest reasons that I'm able to keep my nano reef healthy. You may have seen my last post about adding a macro algae reactor to my system, but that is not my greatest help, although it has been a game changer.
Now my greatest help keeping my reef healthy is running filter floss. But the secret is where I get the filter floss from. Instead of buying high cost petstore floss, I get it from a $10 body pillow I bought at Wal-Mart. And let me tell you, it lasts for ever! I'm still on the same pillow that I bought last year. And all I did to prep it was wash it a couple times in the washing machine like I did my filter socks. Some might be skeptical, and I admit I was at first. A friend of mine (the Captian) was the first one to tell me about it. And originally I used it in a rotter tube which made cleaning filter socks a thing of the past. But I only used a sump on my nano for a short while till later when I went back to just using the all in one part of my tank. I have no skimmer, and have not used one in over a year, maybe longer. I sometimes run carbon but it's only about twice a year. And other than the floss and macro algae, i have no other filtration except rock and sand. Now before I added the algae reactor I used a nano reactor that i filled with filter floss that i change once a week. I still currently run the nano reactor along with the algae reactor but this weekend I took my reactors to the next level.
I was starting to get a build up of detritus in the back. So I pulled all the algae out of my reactor and placed it in my display for safe keeping. Then filled both my reactors with filter floss. I unplugged my return pump so that it would not send any detritus into my display. Then plugged in both pumps to the reactors. Now both reactor pumps are in the back compartments of my all in one, along with the returns. I had so much of a build up that I had to change the filter floss after just a couple hours of running them. Then today I put everything back the way it was before the cleaning started, and now my water is nice and polished.
Now my greatest help keeping my reef healthy is running filter floss. But the secret is where I get the filter floss from. Instead of buying high cost petstore floss, I get it from a $10 body pillow I bought at Wal-Mart. And let me tell you, it lasts for ever! I'm still on the same pillow that I bought last year. And all I did to prep it was wash it a couple times in the washing machine like I did my filter socks. Some might be skeptical, and I admit I was at first. A friend of mine (the Captian) was the first one to tell me about it. And originally I used it in a rotter tube which made cleaning filter socks a thing of the past. But I only used a sump on my nano for a short while till later when I went back to just using the all in one part of my tank. I have no skimmer, and have not used one in over a year, maybe longer. I sometimes run carbon but it's only about twice a year. And other than the floss and macro algae, i have no other filtration except rock and sand. Now before I added the algae reactor I used a nano reactor that i filled with filter floss that i change once a week. I still currently run the nano reactor along with the algae reactor but this weekend I took my reactors to the next level.
I was starting to get a build up of detritus in the back. So I pulled all the algae out of my reactor and placed it in my display for safe keeping. Then filled both my reactors with filter floss. I unplugged my return pump so that it would not send any detritus into my display. Then plugged in both pumps to the reactors. Now both reactor pumps are in the back compartments of my all in one, along with the returns. I had so much of a build up that I had to change the filter floss after just a couple hours of running them. Then today I put everything back the way it was before the cleaning started, and now my water is nice and polished.
