For those of you using E-shopps sumps, where do you buy your replacement filter pads? Has anyone found any good alternatives that are cheap and can be bought in bulk? Can the original filter pads be washed and re-used? The original filter pads are a lot more porous than the basic "cut to size" filter media. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Eshopps R100 filter pads
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Vinny Kreyling
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I have been using it for about 5 years. We used the same stuff when I worked in aquaculture.
Thanks Vinny. It looks similar to the white and blue I tried. Price is good, but it is a little thick to fit in the compartment designed for the pads in my sump. I have to force them in, and they seem to clog pretty quickly.
I'm going to check it out. Thanks again
If you are in my area I can give you a piece to try. I will be buying more soon. When I bought them I had to buy 2 huge rolls. They have lasted me forever it seems like. Hoping I can locate them again, but I think I can. I am near 595 and the turnpike. Off of Riverland and 441.
I appreciate it so much, but I'm over an hour north in Jensen Beach. Please let me know if you find the stuff, and where I can find it.
So you don't use anything at all? Does that increase the noise?
By the way, I have nearly the exact setup as you do, only I built my stand much taller.
Greybeard
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I'm running an Eheim 4000lph pump, full throttle, using a Herbie style drain. Flow is about all the single corner-flo overflow can handle, water level is high along the overflow grille.
I dislike foam, floss, socks... any sort of mechanical filtration media that traps waste. I only use a sock during and immediately after a water change. When I remove the filter sock, I used to hear the water fall through the sock holder into the sump, I fixed up a bit of 3" PVC so that it fit into that hole, gives the flow a surface to fall along. Helped a lot with noise.
I don't hear the flow from one compartment to the next at all. Never had any filter material in there, so I don't know if it helped with the noise or not, but I can't hear it.
A tank is only as quiet as it's loudest component. I hear pumps. My return pump hum, augmented by my skimmer pump, is really the only thing I hear. Occasionally, I'll hear a bit of water drop through the Herbie 'trickle' standpipe, but normally, nothing.
I looked around a bit, if you've got a thread on your system, I can't find it. If you've got one, post it, I'd love to take a look.
The height of my stand was set by me having my wife measure from the floor to my armpit, while I was stretched as high as I could get it, and subtracting tank height from the rim. I dislike having to stand on a stool to get into the tank
I don't have a build thread. I actually haven't even finished the doors yet, lol. They are still primed white while the rest of my stand is already black. I only have the front door on it right now, because my white led lights for the inside of my stand are on a reed switch, and the only way they turn off is with the door closed. Maybe I'll take a couple of photos and shoot them over. Still a work in progress thoughI'm running an Eheim 4000lph pump, full throttle, using a Herbie style drain. Flow is about all the single corner-flo overflow can handle, water level is high along the overflow grille.
I dislike foam, floss, socks... any sort of mechanical filtration media that traps waste. I only use a sock during and immediately after a water change. When I remove the filter sock, I used to hear the water fall through the sock holder into the sump, I fixed up a bit of 3" PVC so that it fit into that hole, gives the flow a surface to fall along. Helped a lot with noise.
I don't hear the flow from one compartment to the next at all. Never had any filter material in there, so I don't know if it helped with the noise or not, but I can't hear it.
A tank is only as quiet as it's loudest component. I hear pumps. My return pump hum, augmented by my skimmer pump, is really the only thing I hear. Occasionally, I'll hear a bit of water drop through the Herbie 'trickle' standpipe, but normally, nothing.
I looked around a bit, if you've got a thread on your system, I can't find it. If you've got one, post it, I'd love to take a look.
The height of my stand was set by me having my wife measure from the floor to my armpit, while I was stretched as high as I could get it, and subtracting tank height from the rim. I dislike having to stand on a stool to get into the tank
You are a bit far from me. I know where my filter roll is, it's the company I need to locate.
