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Old 09-21-2009, 12:18 PM   #1
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Over flow box prefilter


Morning! Rough Monday morning in good ol' Clevo. Man, our football team SUCKS! I'm sure Denver is laughing. You would think in a town with such AWESOME sports fans (esp football - go Bucks!) we would get a decent team together. Oh, well, at least reefing is fun.

My question has probably been asked a million times- Is it a good or bad idea to use the prefilter foam on an overflow box? My tank is only 7 weeks old and I just set up my overflow (u-tube type not drilled) and I put the included foam filter over the drain. I see its already collecting debris. I run my UV sterilizer in sump and heard I should definitly filter water coming into that. So should I loose the filter foam or keep it? Any opinions? Thanks!
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Old 09-21-2009, 12:41 PM   #2
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bad, it just collects the stuff you are trying to get to the sump.
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Old 09-21-2009, 02:02 PM   #3
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Thanks for the input, thats kind of what I thought, lots of differing opinions out there but I think I will nix the filter.
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