How To Clean Your Freshwater Sump The Easy Way.
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Do you hate cleaning your sump? This is my DIY easy to clean freshwater sump filter set up. It makes sump cleaning easy!
Link for the water changer - • Change The Way You Cha...
How I made the sump - • Freshwater Sump Filter...
Thanks for watching!
Awesome. You take all the hard messy work away. Thanks for the laugh, frisky fish 🐟 🤣
Thanks mate. I didn't want to show too much of those fish as I want to keep this channel family friendly. 😇
I have a very simular sump set up with Poret foam. I pull the foam panels out while the sump is running and it is less than half the work of your approach. Any detritus resuspended is gone in a few hours. Great video.
Before I had that little clean out baffle, crap would go absolutely everywhere! Thanks for your interest mate.
Bravo. Great design.... I'm drawing it out for future reference. Thank you
Thanks mate. If I was to make this sump again, I would make the two tall baffles a little shorter.
Dear Gil:
You have a super-terrific process, my friend. I did water changes, on my, two, largest tanks, this evening. I do scrape algae off the glass, while the water level is low. My ancistrus is no help. He doesn’t clean the glass, at all. But, I do love him.
Thank you for sharing your work; full of helpful, aquarist tips.
All my best,
Sincerely,
E. J. Brinegar
Thanks E.J,
I've noticed that our Bristlenose will clean up brown algae but are not very effective against green algae, unless it is in wafer form!
Thanks again for your interest mate.
Dear Gil:
Aquarists have recommended doctor fish (Garra rufa) and Chinese algae eaters (Gyrinocheilus aymonieri) to clean the glass of algae. I’m not sure I could acquire doctor fish and Chinese algae eaters sometimes bully fish, for their slime coat. For now, I don’t mind scrubbing the glass, myself.
Thank you for all you do for the FishFam Community.
Sincerely,
Brinegar
I might have to try a sump filter in the future, and congrats mate on the severums breeding😊 I love the gold eyes they have🤩 stunning!
Thanks Jeff. The eggs lasted for all of about 5 minutes once everyone else found out about them.
Damn this is impressive! I love your setup and the maintenance! awesome stuff
Thanks mate, I appreciate you saying that.
One more great treat.
Thanks again mate. 👊
Honestly Hard to say if the Severums got frisky because of the sump clean, or the Barry White music, either one could do it :)
That Barry White was just for you Colin, not for them. I hope that you know that.
Thanks for sharing these pro-tips on a clean sump. I want mine to stay as clean as possible and yours looks cleaner than many tanks I have seen & the frisky is an added bonus, since I am hoping to try my hand at some Discus & shrimp breeding. Cheers.
Thanks mate, the way my old sump was set up I had to remove the sponges to get to the fine pad, which of course made a huge mess. Then I had to drain the whole sump to try and suck up all of that detritus. Good luck with your discus.
@@Gilsfishroom Thanks, yeah I haven't set my sump up yet, but I am looking forward. Thanks again. Never had Discus, so I will be happy if I can just pull off having them alive healthy and thriving.
Nice setup, I use separate plastic containers instead of a glass sump. My "sponge chamber" is a 20lt Bunnings bucket, which I just take outside & pour on the garden, quick rinse (no siphoning).
Daughter plays a good statue, I was waitn for someone to jump scare her 😉
That sounds even easier. Although if I didn't need to siphon out the sump I would have no way to include the water change device. Thanks for your interest Lana. 😀
Wow what a great idea with the basket,,,, just subscribe 👍❤️ it
Thanks mate. 😀
Love ya vids mate , tanks looking mint 🙌 how’s the bcb baskets working out ?
Thanks Barry. Nothing new with the bcb, I will give the new basket some more time. How are you going with your plenum?
Hi. Love your set up. Simple and neat!! What return pump are you using? Thanks
Thanks mate
I run 2 Jebao dcp pumps. Great pumps for the price.
LMAO so true about the crap and the politician.. least you know the filters can be cleaned.
One of these days I have to try doing a sump..
Nice clean up my friend
Thanks Chris. If only we could lay the politicians on a basket and rinse them off!
@@Gilsfishroom so true
Love it 👌🏾
Thanks Rochelle. Any news on your bog filters?
@@Gilsfishroom well I’ve been taking the water from the actual bog now instead of the tank , but they are the same so I am actually still have questions as to if I have it right.
My outside bog however ior pond is always under 10ppm so that a good sign, not sure if it os the plants getting more sun or the bog is doing it’s job 🤞🏽🤞🏽🤞🏽
Also I was wondering -
I use jbl nitrate test kit and sometimes api-
Have you used both ? JBL always gives me around 10ppm for my main pond but api gives me more like 20-30 ppm 🤔 I’m not sure which one is reading correctly.
I have only used api, although you have just given me an idea. I just spent 5 minutes on ebay and hopefully by the end of next week I will have api, jbl, sera and fluval nitrate test kits. I will make a comparison video just for you mate.
@@Gilsfishroom that would be bloody Awsome 🙏🏼🙏🏼👌🏾
@@Gilsfishroom actually that would make a great comparison video.
Why is your water level so high in your sump?
Good idea with the yellow basket👍 think I'll steal that one from ya✌️🏴
The main reason is because I made the the tall baffles too high. If the fine pad completely blocks up, the water level will rise in the first half of the sump before it flows over the top of the middle baffle. This means that the level in the pump chamber would become very low. Keeping the sump so full ensures that if the filter chambers are full, there is enough water left for the pump chamber. Another reason is having a higher level in the sump reduces the height the pumps have to push water up into the display tank, saving electricity. Reason three is it increases water volume which is always good. I used to wash the pads on the clothes line, which meant trying to hold them still and getting soaked!
im building my sump right now mimicking your build. hard to find that plastic mesh in my rural area
Mine is aquarium divider mesh from ebay. I think they are 300mm x 150mm sheets that clip together.
I love your sump. All the other sumps I see really irritate me because they barely even fill it. But you keep yours nice and full which makes more sense because one of the main benefits of having a sump is to increase the total volume in your system.
I do have some questions on bulkheads and watertight seals. I see them done a million different ways. One person says only use aquarium bulkheads with a rubber seal and no silicone. Then another person uses regular threaded pvc fittings and just silicones them together. There's a million different ways to approach them. So what are your best practices? How do you use your bulkheads?
Thanks Ryan. I prefer bulkheads with rubber seals because if the seal leaks, you can either tighten the fitting or remove it and clean the surface, the seal, and try again. Silicone can get a bit messy and doesn't stick to all surfaces like some plastics. If you can't see the fitting, I use irrigation bulkheads or what we call here tank outlets. They are cheaper than aquarium bulkheads but don't look as neat. Thanks for watching mate.
Barry white to the rescue for fish breeding lol❤️🇦🇺
A little Barry goes a long way...
I have a tiny sump for my aquarium, but have lots of room for a bigger one, you have inspired me to make a bigger one, but I have just one question, how do you manage to syphon the water from the bottom of your sump?
I use a garden hose to syphon outside to a low spot in the yard.
@@Gilsfishroom I struggle to get the water from the bottom of my sump, thank you for your very quick reply, love your video and you aquarium
Did you build or buy the sump? If bought, bought where?
I made it using a second hand tank. Here is the video of me building it - ruclips.net/video/jm5DxO6ylQM/видео.html
Is the safety vest optional?
Ha! Only if you don't want to get run over! I had just got home from work when I made this.
@@Gilsfishroom What do you do? I'm disabled. Used to work in putting on live concerts & plays.
I am a professional steering wheel attendant, also known as an interstate truck driver. In Australia, you can't go anywhere without hi vis anymore. You ever put on a concert for anyone I would know?
@@Gilsfishroom Know James Taylor? I worked his One Man Band tour. If you look for his videos on here, many are from a DVD shoot done on that tour. It was pretty fun.
I sure do know James Taylor, that tour would have been cool.
I expected to listen to you, not to listen 🎶 music. Not jazz, not rock, not Bach.
You can listen to both!
@@Gilsfishroom no, I can't, too annoying for me.
What I learnt from this???I need a sump.
@@robbeevors3757 Yes Rob, a sump can be a beautiful thing mate.