DIY Water Polisher or Diatom Filter
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Go back into the fabric store and get some of the white random weave man made stuff they use on the bottoms of chairs, couches & mattresses. It is identical to the fabric used on Vortex diatom filters and costs about 10¢ /ft². My fabric ripped on my Vortex and I replaced it with that fabric using aquarium safe silicon to hold it to the filter basket.NJ Devils Fan said:
NJD, good to see ya again!
I made a polisher from a home water filter, 1 micron cartridge, 700 gal mag drive in-line pump and used my Python for the pickup. Made it portable to move from tank to tank . It works great.
First, let me say, "Holy Cr@p!" This has got to be some sort of record for resurrecting a dead thread (if you can call one unanswered post a thread). Just a month shy of two years. Wow.
Now, back to the question, I never did make a water polisher. I have instead used a cannister filter with some multi stage filtering. I use some standard Marineland blue foam in one basket and filter floss in another. It does not really polish my water but I may have given up on that dream
Seajays, I'll second NJD's request for pics.
Tom
Now, back to the question, I never did make a water polisher. I have instead used a cannister filter with some multi stage filtering. I use some standard Marineland blue foam in one basket and filter floss in another. It does not really polish my water but I may have given up on that dream
Seajays, I'll second NJD's request for pics.
Tom
I'll say. I hope you get faster responses when your fish develops a bizarre purple lesion! :sick:tomm10 said:
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Very nice! I think I might like to try something like that. Do you use that 24/7 or just occasionally?seajays said:
