Filter Floss

[jason]

Is anyone using pillow stuffing from Wal Mart as filter floss? or What are you using to polish your water?

[Southern Flame]

Chemipure elite

[MARKIS210]

I use the pillow stuffing for our Biocube. Less than $5 at Walmart, bag has lasted over 5 months and still plenty left. Under the filter floss, I have a bag of Chemipure Elite

[rrasco]

The filter floss from the LFS is actually really cheap, like $7 a sheet. Then again, I'm sure the pillow stuffing is probably stupid cheap and you get more. I don't use it anymore since I switched to SW though. Used to run it in my canisters for FW setups all the time though.

[jason]

Is anyone using a UV Sterlizer on a reef setup? I have a mix of SPS and LPS, a few softies, and a clam. I also have about 20 fish which 6 of them are tangs and 1 snowflake eel. I haven't had any problems with the system and everything is growing like crazy. My fish are healthy and I have not lost any to ich/disease. I have read that a UV Sterlizer can make your water very clear. I run a BRS reactor with carbon and gfo but I sill get a light film of algae on the glass everyday that I have to clean. I guess I'm just wondering if there is anythig I can do to make the water look like some of the tanks you see in photos and reduce the algae growth on the glass.

[1seahorse]

Is anyone using a UV Sterlizer on a reef setup? I have a mix of SPS and LPS, a few softies, and a clam. I also have about 20 fish which 6 of them are tangs and 1 snowflake eel. I haven't had any problems with the system and everything is growing like crazy. My fish are healthy and I have not lost any to ich/disease. I have read that a UV Sterlizer can make your water very clear. I run a BRS reactor with carbon and gfo but I sill get a light film of algae on the glass everyday that I have to clean. I guess I'm just wondering if there is anythig I can do to make the water look like some of the tanks you see in photos and reduce the algae growth on the glass.

(don't want to steal/redirect thread...) I've learned if lights are on more than 8 hrs you will get a lot of algae growth regardless of how "clean your water may be" But even at that, I too have to keep cleaning the glass like everybody else, it's something we all do, we just don't talk about it. Lol

[Flyride95]

What he said is very very true!

[ramsey]

I've used the pillow stuffing in a nano cube. One bag has lasted a couple of years.