Gravel Vac w/ Filter Sack?

Myka · 02/25/2007, 12:22 PM

I want one of those little gravel vacs that have the attached filter sack/bag so that I can suck up detritus without doing a waterchange. The only ones I can find are cheap battery operated ones...that don't look very good. Are there any plug in ones? Or? What do you guys use?

mosesbrown · 02/25/2007, 12:35 PM

I do water changes and have a good clean up crew.

I think I have seen a floor model recirculating gravel vac somewhere on line. Maybe at Dr Foster and Smith or Big Als. I do not know if the work well.

It would be my guess that their is no substitute for water changes and a good clean up crew.

Myka · 02/25/2007, 12:37 PM

I do have a good clean up crew, and I do waterchanges as well. It's the darn clean up crew that makes all the detritus (no fish in tank)! However, I also think there is no substitute for siphoning detritus! I want to siphon detritus more often than I want to do waterchanges.

don954 · 02/25/2007, 01:27 PM

stir it up with your power head and let the skimmer get it, you should have enough flow that it doesnt settle in the 1st place, but if you don't, sweep the rocks with a power head every once in a while..

adam1969 · 02/25/2007, 01:34 PM

hi which powerheads are u guys using .i'm thinking tunze 6024 , 6045 or echo vortech.

Myka · 02/25/2007, 01:37 PM

I have my powerheads (2 Maxi Jet 1200s in my lil 33g) positioned so that they blast the detritus to the front of the tank where i can remove it. I do stir it up so the skimmer can get some, but there's still crap that won't blast into the water column. It's just unsightly is all. I want to suck it out instead of cloud my tank with the detritus. My LPS corals HATE the high flow, so I can't position the powerheads to the front at all.

adam1969 · 02/25/2007, 01:48 PM

are maxi 1200 only 295 gph i have 215gal tank i have 2 seido's one 800gph and 1100 gph in the back so u don't see them but i need something in front of the tank so i though something nicer because u will see it.

02/25/2007, 12:22 PM	#1
Myka Reefing since '93 Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: SK, Canada Posts: 2,436	Gravel Vac w/ Filter Sack? I want one of those little gravel vacs that have the attached filter sack/bag so that I can suck up detritus without doing a waterchange. The only ones I can find are cheap battery operated ones...that don't look very good. Are there any plug in ones? Or? What do you guys use? __________________ ~ Mindy, SPS addict. Current Tank Info: 69 SPS (73 gal net) established July 1/15. (HBD Canada!) ATB 840, ATI 6-bulb dimmable. Fauna Marin balling lite method.

02/25/2007, 12:35 PM	#2
mosesbrown Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Virginia Posts: 165	I do water changes and have a good clean up crew. I think I have seen a floor model recirculating gravel vac somewhere on line. Maybe at Dr Foster and Smith or Big Als. I do not know if the work well. It would be my guess that their is no substitute for water changes and a good clean up crew. __________________ "I just want to be loved is that so wrong" -John Lovitz Current Tank Info: 75 Gallon Reef; Leather Coral, Xenia, Star Polyps, Button Polyps, Mushrooms, Tounge Coral. Clown, Six Line Wrasse, Chromis, Clnr Shrimp Peppermint Shrimp, Sand Sifting Star, Misc Snails & Hermits.

02/25/2007, 12:37 PM	#3
Myka Reefing since '93 Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: SK, Canada Posts: 2,436	I do have a good clean up crew, and I do waterchanges as well. It's the darn clean up crew that makes all the detritus (no fish in tank)! However, I also think there is no substitute for siphoning detritus! I want to siphon detritus more often than I want to do waterchanges. __________________ ~ Mindy, SPS addict. Current Tank Info: 69 SPS (73 gal net) established July 1/15. (HBD Canada!) ATB 840, ATI 6-bulb dimmable. Fauna Marin balling lite method.

02/25/2007, 01:37 PM	#6
Myka Reefing since '93 Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: SK, Canada Posts: 2,436	I have my powerheads (2 Maxi Jet 1200s in my lil 33g) positioned so that they blast the detritus to the front of the tank where i can remove it. I do stir it up so the skimmer can get some, but there's still crap that won't blast into the water column. It's just unsightly is all. I want to suck it out instead of cloud my tank with the detritus. My LPS corals HATE the high flow, so I can't position the powerheads to the front at all. __________________ ~ Mindy, SPS addict. Current Tank Info: 69 SPS (73 gal net) established July 1/15. (HBD Canada!) ATB 840, ATI 6-bulb dimmable. Fauna Marin balling lite method.

02/25/2007, 01:27 PM	#4
don954 Registered Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: Lake Worth, FL Posts: 258	stir it up with your power head and let the skimmer get it, you should have enough flow that it doesnt settle in the 1st place, but if you don't, sweep the rocks with a power head every once in a while..

02/25/2007, 01:34 PM	#5
adam1969 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Douglassville PA Posts: 109	hi which powerheads are u guys using .i'm thinking tunze 6024 , 6045 or echo vortech.

02/25/2007, 01:48 PM	#7
adam1969 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Douglassville PA Posts: 109	are maxi 1200 only 295 gph i have 215gal tank i have 2 seido's one 800gph and 1100 gph in the back so u don't see them but i need something in front of the tank so i though something nicer because u will see it.