Finger socks need to go!

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I wanna watch this thread . Seems interesting and I agree with you I'm sick of changing filter pads and bleaching once a week. Keep us updated
 
I mist be doing it wrong. My socks last all week. I have 5 of them and just wash once a month.
 
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pickupman66 said:
I mist be doing it wrong. My socks last all week. I have 5 of them and just wash once a month.
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Not necessarily. It really varies from tank to tank. The more you feed/put stuff in the water, the faster your socks are going to clog (with both food and poop). I am the same as you, right now 1 sock is lasting a week or more, I feed once a day 1/2 a cube of mysis and every other day some pod food in a 90g.
 
I could probably get my filter sock to last longer . I just don't chance it on mechanical filtration. The food can begin decomposing relatively fast in a marine tank and I don't need the excess nitrates in my smaller tank.
 
I I have a 400 gallon with 2 filter 100 micron socks lasts 2 days ,... Loads of flow by two gyre 150 and 2 x wp60 for behind the Aqua scape , no sand bed so most the left over food and waist gets to my filter socks, also have allot of fish,.. I also use a XL diatom filter once per month with de and carbon powder to polish the water,...

I dose VSV method so I have no algue , my rocks are clean and my water is clean, it just takes allot of work to keep it that way... And I still need to sipon some accumulated waits in some corners of the display and sump weekly.

I went bare bottom about six months ago the amount of waist that is removed is astounding,...

I shudder to think , What must be trapped in our sand beds for processing ... Hopefully this filter will give me the 4 - 5 days without a filter sock change I'm looking for.
 
Received today great vender in the uk ,... Quick, and responsive , paid Sunday, shipped Tuesday ( Monday bank holiday in the uk) received today by DHL ,... Thumbs up DHL ...


First problems , hopefully you can see I can't use the power supply for the drum rotation motor , sure I'lL will find one on Amazon tonight .... :) ... Need 110v to 12v 450 ma 4.5

Second problem is 2" down pipe to 4 cm in and outlet....2.5 cm overflow..... Mmmmmm ... Any idea's ? We're I can get the conversion fittings?

3 spare roles and origanil box ....http://s1309.photobucket.com/user/klipkops/media/image.jpg2_zpsxu5r3fxn.jpg.html
 
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Bulk reef supply was selling these for a wile ,but are now listed out of stock ..and they have a metric conversion kit.
I would like to use this on my 265 build .. but I think the flo is 600 gph max so I would at least need 4 of them .that's like 2k just to not deal with socks anymore. ..
I would love someone else run with this idea and maybe a faster Flo unit .
 
Yeah , I've seen that before, I just emailed them for pricing. .
The cads 300 dose 30gpm=1800gph. X2
3600..
The cads 600 is 50gpm=3000gph..
Now my tank is 265gal. X 10 = 2650gph. I've learned never depend on the specs max.. so two cads 300 would give plenty of safety room..
Waiting on cost ..
 
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1400.00 for the cads 600
1300.00 for the Cads 300
Big disappointment. .I thought they would be costly. .but wow ..time to look for stepper motors and look into the price of building my own ..
The fabric I think will be the only hard thing to find ..
 
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