Easier fuge clean up

Marc G-L

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My chamber closest to the return pump was dumping debris into th3e DT, everytime after returning my Sicce pumps from feed mode. Like the rest of us, I prefer to have a clean DT without lots of particulates floating around until they get trapped in sox, or wherever.

My solution was to put a filter baffle across the weird ( dam slots) between the dirty chamber, and the return section of my fuge. I vigorusly stirred up the water several times in that chamber and let water flow force the debris into the temporary filter material.
See photos. 98% of the crap stuck to the filter floss even after scraping the chambers sides with a credit card to remove adherent excess algae.



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That's fine for short-term, but if that pad clogged then it could cause the sump to overflow.
 

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