Has anyone tried washing and reusing filter floss? I'm pulling the 40 breeder sump off of my freshwater tank to start my first marine tank and I'm replacing it with a rubbermaid setup. As part of that I'm planning on filling a 10g Brute trash can with filter floss. Usually I only use a hand full of filter floss that I just throw away and replace but I don't really want to be throwing away 10 gallons worth at a time.
Washing filter floss?
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Smokey Stover
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Go to WalMart and get some big bags of Poly-Fill. Same as filter floss, Lots cheaper, Disposable.
I already get it from WalMart. It's less a cost issue but more of going to Walmart/waste issue for me.
That is exactly what it is. This is going on my freshwater setup since I'm pulling it's sump to use for a reef setup. The 10g trash will overflow in to a rubbermaid acting as the main sump. I'm doing everything as "cheap" as I can because the whole purpose of this is to run tge 40 breeder as a reef for a couple of years to learn and decide if I want to switch my main tank (180g) over to salt.
billdogg
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If you must use it, ^^^This^^^ (pillow stuffing)
A washable filter sock would do the same thing and be easily reusable. Personally, I don't use anything for mechanical filtration at all. I really don't see the point.
The main reason I'm going with the brute + poly is for added water volume. The trash can frees up room in the rest of sump for bio and equipment.
