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View Poll Results: How Often Do You Clean Your Overflow/sump?
Every water change 8 10.26%
Every other water change 10 12.82%
Every 3-6 months 13 16.67%
Just when I feel like it 23 29.49%
Never 24 30.77%
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Old 10-23-2006, 12:01 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Question Cleaning Sumps/Overflows...

How often do you vacuum/clean your sump and/or overflow?

I am constantly amazed at the amount of muck that settles in these two places... I clean both of mine every other water change.
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Old 10-23-2006, 01:02 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Re: Cleaning Sumps/Overflows...

Your right, it is amazing what collects in there, every 3-6mths for me...I can't wait to see what happens in my new 150g sump for the 225. Yikes
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Old 10-23-2006, 06:37 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Re: Cleaning Sumps/Overflows...

Uh....never..... Then again it hasn't been a year that I had my sump yet so I'll clean it soon.
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Old 10-23-2006, 06:55 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Re: Cleaning Sumps/Overflows...

Ashamed to say I haven't done it yet. Doesn't look too bad though....yet!
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Old 10-23-2006, 07:55 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Re: Cleaning Sumps/Overflows...

I've never cleaned mine
I use a filter sock...so no accumulation on the sump and AFA the overflow got plenty of fauna in there, I just call it my mini-refugium they do all the cleaning...lol
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Re: Cleaning Sumps/Overflows...

i have never cleaned either.....but they look pretty nasty so maybe i will soon
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Old 10-23-2006, 08:47 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Re: Cleaning Sumps/Overflows...

if i had to date it, every third month
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Re: Cleaning Sumps/Overflows...

every water change with a python its simple
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Re: Cleaning Sumps/Overflows...

I do the overflows every water change and the sump/fuge never. I'm in with Robert and use a filter sock.
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Old 10-24-2006, 09:33 AM   #10 (permalink)
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Re: Cleaning Sumps/Overflows...

i clean the sump every spring, the overflow i scrape the glass every once in a while.
i did clean somefin else last night that was my metal halide fixture.i cleaned the fans to, holy.... were they dirty.
took couple hrs

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Re: Cleaning Sumps/Overflows...

Thanks for the reminder! I need to clean my canopy/lights too....
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Re: Cleaning Sumps/Overflows...

you lose a lot of par from not cleaning the salt spray off of mh bulbs.
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Another excellent point! Thanks Charlie
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Re: Cleaning Sumps/Overflows...

Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuna
every water change with a python its simple

QFT!

I've used the Python water changers for well over 15 years. No more lugging buckets of water in either direction...
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Re: Cleaning Sumps/Overflows...

...ohh man... I so need to get my python's faucet adapter replaced!!!!! I just lugged buckets this weekend
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