dimanche 3 août 2014

Will this sand cleaning method work?

I'll have my 55g sump up and running soon and along with that my 55g DT will be finished completing the cycle soon so I was thinking of the easiest ways to clean this beast of a system. I thought crossed my mind, what if while siphoning my sand I let the siphon hose lead into the inlet of my sump with a filter sock on the end of it? No this is not a way to get around water changes. I'm still going to be changing 10% a week, but before the sump I was changing 10% and cleaning 1/2 the sand bed each week and now I have a sump to clean out as well.



This would be how I would go about doing this.



Clean glass, lights, blow off rocks

Filter sock on end of siphon & stick into sump inlet baffle in sump

Siphon 1/2 of sand bed

Filter sock removed

Clean sump while changing 10% water

Refill water



The only things I can think of that won't allow this to work is my sump return pump not being able to keep up in which case I can cut off the overflow and use the siphon as a main feed for the sump while cleaning and detritus from the sandbed getting through the filter sock



Any input and thoughts on this process? Why it will and/or will not work?




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