Chaeto-power head

[paphater]

For those of you that tumble your chaeto with a power head, do you ever have issues of the power head inlet getting blocked by the chaeto?

 

[Crabs McJones]

For those of you that tumble your chaeto with a power head, do you ever have issues of the power head inlet getting blocked by the chaeto?

When I was running a powerhead I ran into this issue all the time. Eventually gave up on trying to get my chaeto to tumble

 

[paphater]

When I was running a powerhead I ran into this issue all the time. Eventually gave up on trying to get my chaeto to tumble

I'm glad I waited to pull the trigger then, that's what I was afraid of.

 

[Dennis Cartier]

I had this issue in my last fuge. So for my latest one, I planned ahead and routed the feed line to the bottom of the barrel that my remote fuge uses. The fed pipe has a elbow pointed up towards the surface, and the constant vertical flow keeps the algae ball tumbling and away from the drain screen in the side of the barrel. To prevent siphoning, I drilled a small hole in the PVC pipe that enters the fuge through a bulkhead (above the water line). Worked out great.

Dennis

 

[AlgaeBarn]

Use a foam filter on the inlet of the pump.

@Dennis Cartier Great idea!