| Mickey, I think your gonna be surprised and happy with the results you get with your 5 ft trickle tower.....
Brutuscz, I think so many water keepers test like cracy at first and then slide into a pattern of not testing....and your absolutely right, as the load grows so does the need to test and increase filtration. I think a weekly test for water parameters, tho seemingly boring can be your first line of defense.
BTW my vortex filters are bottom drained each day. The filter (250 gals) is not drained completely, just enough to see it start to run clean, poof there's a slug of dirt and then back to clean again. I figured with all the money i spent to get an engineered vortex, I was gonna get rid of any accumulation
daily. I am entering into my third year with the bakki. It's always clean and never accumulates and I break a filter media from time to time and smell and you can never smell anything "fishy". I have the older style media and that surprises me.... |