floss location?

The way my tank/sump is set up, I don't really have a good place to put floss in the correct place, so I came up with an idea last night that I am trying, wondering if anyone has done it. I cut a piece of grate that fits into my overflow in my tank and sits at the bottom, above the bulkhead, and put the floss over that. The water now comes into the overflow, through the floss and grate, and then into the drain pipe that leads into my sump.

Other than it being a bit more difficult to change, does anybody see any reason why this shouldn't work?

TIA

 

Why are you using floss in a marine tank ? unless its a fish only with some triggers and or parrot fish or nasty predator type tank. then you best have a power filter with plenty of flow and floss /sponge .

 

I have never used any type of mechanical filtration, floss or socks in any of my reef tanks and all is well.

 

I guess because I'm new and not sure what I'm doing? : )

I have FOWLR now, but plan to eventually have corals. I have a sump/refugium, and I thought some type of floss/media to catch big stuff in the begining was a good thing, no?

 

Waste of time and money use the floss monet towards a good skimmer if you do not already have one ? Or a few good test kits.

 

In the beginning it may help trap detritus from dead or dying stuff on live rock but long term floss and filtration media can contribute to nitrates if not changed frequently. I prefer the natural method with bacteria in the rock and deep sand bed and a protein skimmer doing the filtration. No physical barriers.

 

for the most part ppl w/ reef tanks dont use floss or filter socks for a couple of reasons: the first and more important reason is that the floss or sock will filter out wanted pods and other little living things that we try to promote in the tank. the second is those types of filters need to be changed out or cleaned weekly and sometime even every few days and can create a nitrate issue if not done so. if you have a messy eater in your tank then the floss would be used to catch the waste b4 it got into a tube or power head and get jammed. i use a filter sock a couple of days out of the week to just to polish the water a little and remove any floaties in the water column. also when setting up a new tank a filter sock will be good for catching all the fines form the rock and sand that is created from pouring water in the tank. just keep in mind that a filter sock will catch some beneficial stuff as well and will quickly become saturated with detris.

 

It's a 90 gallon tank with about 125+ lbs of live rock and a DSB. Drains into a 30 gallon sump/refugium, hits live rubble/bio balls, into the fuge which has a light on about 10 hrs/day, then into a protien skimmer and out. Good?