Lets see what's in your stand! mechanical photo's
- Thread starter tcarswell
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LowCel;3102848; said:
Thanks. I just got finished setting that up this past weekend. I got tired of having an octopus of wires under the cabinet. Now there is (2) surge protectors, everything is tagged & tied up. I lot more room now and boy I needed it! I'm going to stuff a hospital tank under there as well.
I can only justify "cleaning it up" after it's been tested and gets the seal of approval. Instead I usually end up smackin it with the "fail" stamp and improving/changing/altering. I've never got it right the first time, and even accept that. I've spent weeks planning and doing everything neatly and striving for perfection only to find that if there's not a good foundation for the system that no matter how neat you make it, it's still crap.
Trial and error. Test and tune.
There's all sorts of things I wanna change allready (allready stamped FAILed), but the goal was to just get it up and running which it is.....
Trial and error. Test and tune.
There's all sorts of things I wanna change allready (allready stamped FAILed), but the goal was to just get it up and running which it is.....
Serious is good IF you can maintain sanity long enough to end up with a finished product before saying screw it and changing completely....
One thing I always try to shoot for with filtration is short down times.... Being able to swap out media in a few minutes.... Otherwise I put stuff off, and procrastinate to the point that it gets "bad".
I used to run canisters but after opening one up and realizing what a mess I let them get to be because I procrastinate maintainance so much (due to them being a PITA to clean,) it's nothing but DIY filtration for me from now on.....
I think you should be able to swap out all the mechanical media in a monster sump/wet-dry in the same amount of time it takes to prime a Fluval 405.
I can't be the only one that's like this when it comes to filtration......
Man, the idea of a vortex settling chamber..... That's what I'm talking about.
Sorry Mr. Carswell I respect your thread. My derail is now over......
One thing I always try to shoot for with filtration is short down times.... Being able to swap out media in a few minutes.... Otherwise I put stuff off, and procrastinate to the point that it gets "bad".
I used to run canisters but after opening one up and realizing what a mess I let them get to be because I procrastinate maintainance so much (due to them being a PITA to clean,) it's nothing but DIY filtration for me from now on.....
I think you should be able to swap out all the mechanical media in a monster sump/wet-dry in the same amount of time it takes to prime a Fluval 405.
I can't be the only one that's like this when it comes to filtration......
Man, the idea of a vortex settling chamber..... That's what I'm talking about.
Sorry Mr. Carswell I respect your thread. My derail is now over......
No apologies necessary man . I am really anal about how quick I can swap stuff out of my canisters because I don't want any bio to die. I had never though about the ease of maintenance for sumps. Thanks for the post man really made me think about canisters I love them but I hate leaving crap in them for 2-3 months.DB junkie;3103904; said:
