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Re: Getting the WOW Affect with Allot Less Work- Design and Servicing the Purigen Rea
Just want to say thanks for keeping up the dialogue on these things, with links to product supplies, and to share what I did.
Roland, I like the coffee filter! Seems like a good approach for a sump application.
In my case, I set up a Phosban 550 branched off an Eheim 2217 that returns to my main tank. I cut a spare Seachem "The Bag" I had and sandwiched it between the rigid plastic disks Phosban sells for containing fluidized bio-media pellets, along with some 100 or 200 micron filter fabric I had around as a sort of prefilter. Now that things are stabilized, I'm not getting any bypass; at first I did see a little, though that may have come from the way I was moving things around during initial setup. (I think a little ended up in the return tubing.) When I saw a few beads blowing around in the tank, I zip tied a spare small 100mg purigen bag I had laying around to the end of the return, which goes into the display. It worked great, and was fairly unobtrusive; after a couple of months, it did start to grow algae. Since it was no longer collecting anything, I removed it.
Just want to say thanks for keeping up the dialogue on these things, with links to product supplies, and to share what I did.
Roland, I like the coffee filter! Seems like a good approach for a sump application.
In my case, I set up a Phosban 550 branched off an Eheim 2217 that returns to my main tank. I cut a spare Seachem "The Bag" I had and sandwiched it between the rigid plastic disks Phosban sells for containing fluidized bio-media pellets, along with some 100 or 200 micron filter fabric I had around as a sort of prefilter. Now that things are stabilized, I'm not getting any bypass; at first I did see a little, though that may have come from the way I was moving things around during initial setup. (I think a little ended up in the return tubing.) When I saw a few beads blowing around in the tank, I zip tied a spare small 100mg purigen bag I had laying around to the end of the return, which goes into the display. It worked great, and was fairly unobtrusive; after a couple of months, it did start to grow algae. Since it was no longer collecting anything, I removed it.
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