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06-26-2006, 04:52 PM
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The Bitter Mod
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How do you clean your sump sock?
Title pretty much covers it all.
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06-26-2006, 04:54 PM
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Cabana Boy
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with a little bit of bleach then dechlorinate
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06-26-2006, 04:58 PM
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The Bitter Mod
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Originally Posted by afbengochea
with a little bit of bleach then dechlorinate
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In the washing machine?
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06-26-2006, 05:15 PM
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Plankton
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i put mine in bleach then put it in a bucket with water and dechlorinater
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06-26-2006, 05:18 PM
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Professor Chaos
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a little bleach in the washer.
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06-26-2006, 05:19 PM
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Eat more PIE
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washing machine gentle cycle with clorox.
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06-26-2006, 05:19 PM
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Little Fishy
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as an aside, how often do you clean your sump sock ?
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06-26-2006, 05:23 PM
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Milkshake Man
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Sump sock  i heard of such things but dont use them. 
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06-26-2006, 05:28 PM
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king of brown corals
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Originally Posted by forenpa1
as an aside, how often do you clean your sump sock ?
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sump sock gets cleaned and rotated every other day . as a side effect (besides micro bubble control ) i have not had to clean my sump and its going on one year . there are a hundred or so tunicates that love it .
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06-26-2006, 05:32 PM
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Big Fishy
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can some one explain the dechlorinator to me? I need to clean my sump sock. I actually have 4 of them that I should clean. I have just regularly replaced them each month.
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06-26-2006, 05:36 PM
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The Bitter Mod
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Originally Posted by Tim224DT
Sump sock i heard of such things but dont use them.
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I'm am loving these things. Micro bubbles are non existant, salt creep down, evaporation down. I might pick up a couple more in order to run one constantly. I've got one on the skimmer output and one on the sump drain. The one on the sump drain got nasty pretty quick. I'm guessing that most of the funk that its catching is from the uncooked portion of live rock added to the tank. Its amazing how much funk comes out during the cooking process.
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Last edited by theplatypus; 06-26-2006 at 08:24 PM.
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06-26-2006, 05:38 PM
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The Bitter Mod
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Originally Posted by BGJ223
can some one explain the dechlorinator to me? I need to clean my sump sock. I actually have 4 of them that I should clean. I have just regularly replaced them each month.
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I'm assuming that they are using those little tablets for freshwater tanks. Why wouldn't they just rinse it off in some ro/di?
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06-26-2006, 07:36 PM
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I have about ten of them and i rotate them ouot weekly. When i first get them i put a zipper in them so i can open them up flat, lay them on the deck and hose them out. Takes a minute or two and sock is pearly white again.....assuming i didnt leave it in a bucket in my garage to dry for a month before cleaning it...........
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06-26-2006, 07:39 PM
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Milkshake Man
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I am not saying they are bad in any way i just dont use them that is all.
Tim
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