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Old 12-16-2006, 12:11 PM   #8 (permalink)
cioutlaw
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Re: Water Change & Top Off Water Temperature

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Originally Posted by edmund36
Yes, I have a wet /dry filter sump. How do you conveniently change water out in this? There is a section where the bio balls sit, the debris collects underneath this, and the other section has a large prtein smimmer w/ 2 pumps, one for skimmer, and there is not much space to move around. I do agree this does collect waste. How would you recommend that I get the waste out. Also I would have to possibly shut main pump down, posssibly causing an overflow. Please let me know how I can do this without much headache?

Ed
I have a pump set up that I use like a vacuum cleaner. before I do a waterchange I shut the return pump off & take a spare power head & blow all the debris in the sump so that it is floating around then vacuum the water out.
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