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Any idea what the micron rating of this material is?
 

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Idk but mine start 2 overflow about day 4. If that helps at all.
 

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That's running about a 1000 gph and feeding pretty heavy. I generally just throw one in on sat morning and remove it on Monday morning. I don't run one during the week.
 

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Any idea what the micron rating of this material is?
Marc, its at least in the 200 range. I have four production 200 micron socks, and my DIY socks clog at about the same time or faster than the production ones. Right now on average I get about four days before changing is needed.

I use two 4" x 8" socks with about 900gph running in total through the sump... So about 450gph each. I feed twice with frozen food (LRS fish and herbivore frenzy) and once with flake, per day.

I need to add: I have not washed these yet. I made 31 socks from two yards of felt. I don't know the wear on these socks after washing.. But will soon find out.

Hth
 
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Hello,guys.
I using from bubble magus 4 inch 200 micron is very good but a little price is high.10$ for one filter sock!!
THANKS
 

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The Guys from Tehran and Egypt I wonder if they get livestock from the Red Sea. Also We should send them some felt from Joanne"s !
Hi,cracker.
I think that livestock Red Sea coming to the Tehran 2_3 times in month,So if you like I can send to you:)
Also today we received ORA and Hawaii live stock from united states.
Have a nice day
 

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You might have just put the sock people out of business. I'm going to do this - well, I'll get my wife to sew them.
 

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Hi,cracker.
I think that livestock Red Sea coming to the Tehran 2_3 times in month,So if you like I can send to you:)
Also today we received ORA and Hawaii live stock from united states.
Have a nice day
Thank You for the reply and a Good DAy to You Sir!
 

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Ah Tehran! I got the pleasure of seeing your country in 1995! When I was in the military. Pretty cool that I was able to see stuff like that.
 

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I want too buy this fabric. Pixel can you post a like where you bought yours from . Or pn me cause we just started using the 4" circle socks. And there a bit expensive cause we never reuse socks at all we been using the eshopps 4" rectangle ones and there about 8-11$ea so maybe a thousand dollars*+ from when we started the hobby just on socks .





Awesome info this should be a sticky on the DIY THREAD thanks a million.






"""""Now gotta buy me a sewing me chine :)""""

Just curious, why don't you reuse the socks?. I have about twelve of them and when about ten of them get dirty, I just throw them in the washer with a little bleach and do a double rinse and an air dry.
 

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Marc, its at least in the 200 range. I have four production 200 micron socks, and my DIY socks clog at about the same time or faster than the production ones. Right now on average I get about four days before changing is needed.

I use two 4" x 8" socks with about 900gph running in total through the sump... So about 450gph each. I feed twice with frozen food (LRS fish and herbivore frenzy) and once with flake, per day.

I need to add: I have not washed these yet. I made 31 socks from two yards of felt. I don't know the wear on these socks after washing.. But will soon find out.

Hth

Let us know how the washing goes. I have a feeling the felt will fluff up, but you'll have to tell us one way or another.
 

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I know when I wash them before the boss sews them up they do fluff a bit. Biggest reason. For me to make these is I can afford to throw them away after use so durability I'm not so worried about.
 

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Wow, you throw away after use. How much do you pay your boss to sew them for you? any complain from your boss? Any strike yet?
 

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Nope takes her an hour every 3 months. Than I'm not washing them. Probably the cheapest thing I use for the tank.
 

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Ah Tehran! I got the pleasure of seeing your country in 1995! When I was in the military. Pretty cool that I was able to see stuff like that.
Mr,heathd.hd I very glad that you visiting my country and capital of iran,tehran.
Best
 

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Mr,heathd.hd I very glad that you visiting my country and capital of iran,tehran.
Best


Have you been scuba diving in the area at all?

I went snorkeling off the coast of Oman around that same time. It's not very close 2 you I know. It was awesome though!
 
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