Time to pull up your socks

[mpleleaf]

I'm going to attempt to make my own sump , I've noticed alot of sumps have their overflows empty into a micron sock . Does anyone know of an online Canadian supplier and what is the reason that this method is used . Let me know the good, the bad and the ugly or any input at all ! Thanks , Kevin:)

[Michael_Lambert]

Most use the sock to pic up floating depreay.. like waste and food.. It works well but needs to be changed or cleaned every couple of days..

[mpleleaf]

So they would use this instead of a pre filter like bio balls or ceramic discs , right? Does anyone know where to purchase them in Canada online , there's no lfs that carries them , let alone knows even what they are , around here . Maybe you don't even get them from a lfs , if anyone knows please help , Thanks , Kevin

[Michael_Lambert]

they are avaible up here at Big Als..
People dont like to use the other prefilters just becouse they are harder to clean and they build up Nitrates..

[mpleleaf]

Great ! I'll contact them for different sizes and prices ! Thank You again , Kevin:)

[tang_man]

A micron sock full of activated carbon works real well at reducing microbubbles as well!

An added bonus is pristine clear water :)

[mpleleaf]

Thanks for the info Tang-man , I was just trying to figure a way to incorporate this part of filtering into my sump when your thread came thru . Sound like a excellent idea !:) Thanks for the help , willing to hear any more if you have them , also if there is any things that I should know or change to my sump as it is still on the drawing board. So far it's a 30 g with a sump in one end , return in the middle and a refugium at the other. Now that we've got the placement of carbon figured out I'll move on to return pump size ! Thanks again, Kevin
:wave:

[tang_man]

My sump design sounds similar to yours....

although, my overflow from my main tank is at one end, followed by the refugirum with Macro algae and a 3" DSB in the middle, then the return pump (mag12) on the other end. All of this is ofcoarse separated by baffles.

Another thing you could try is incorporating a "tray" of sorts with lighting eggcrate within the baffles instead of the micron sock to hold up the media (ie: carbon).

Hope that helps.