Roller filter floss

[Treefer32]

I have a Bubble Magus (the large) filter roller on my 340 gallon. I've changed it three times now. I love the roller. It works awesome! If I had a complaint, it would be the replacement process. After emailing Seaside Aquatics, they were very helpful and save me easily an hour per time I change the roller by telling me to staple the start of the new roll to the old roll and then feed it through all the rollers. Much easier than starting from scratch! Takes all of ten minutes vs. 45 minutes to disassemble the entire unit and reassemble it.

However, my question is a much simpler one. The rolls of filter floss seem pretty simple. Cardboard center with a bunch of filter floss rolled onto it. Is there a way to make my own rolls of filter floss if I wanted A) A smaller micron floss to catch more debris? And/or to save money. AT $24.00 a roll, I"m going through a roll every 3 weeks, I'm spending easily $40 a month on rolls.

anyone made their own or is the time not worth the savings?

 

[ariellemermaid]

I was fully sold on a roller mat until I looked into the cost of the filter floss. $40 can easily buy a year’s supply of fleece for filter cups. I doubt if there would be an easy DIY solution because you’d need to find fleece in long thin continuous flat sheets. Can’t really think of an application for that aside from roller mats.

 

[Treefer32]

I was fully sold on a roller mat until I looked into the cost of the filter floss. $40 can easily buy a year’s supply of fleece for filter cups. I doubt if there would be an easy DIY solution because you’d need to find fleece in long thin continuous flat sheets. Can’t really think of an application for that aside from roller mats.

True, however, couldn't the same material used to make filter socks be rolled onto a cardboard tube? Just be on a roll instead of sewed into the shape of a sock?

 

[Snoopy 67]

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2510209.m570.l1311&_nkw=coolant+filter+paperYou will have to find the right size.

 

[DopamineKata]

I was fully sold on a roller mat until I looked into the cost of the filter floss. $40 can easily buy a year’s supply of fleece for filter cups.

That kinda ignores the reason people use roller mats. The whole point is that the filter media gets changed out reliably and quickly without a person having to deal with it.

 

[Dburr1014]

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2510209.m570.l1311&_nkw=coolant+filter+paperYou will have to find the right size.

Or longer and just cut it to length

 

[Treefer32]

That kinda ignores the reason people use roller mats. The whole point is that the filter media gets changed out reliably and quickly without a person having to deal with it.

The reason for me was to no longer use bleach in the clothes washer. We lost several hundred dollars worth of clothes due to residual bleach being in the washer after washing filter socks. For me it's partially convenience of not monitoring filter socks, but for the family it's not washing filter socks.. Plus my wife hated (with a passion) having fishy stuff in the clothes washer...

 

[ariellemermaid]

That kinda ignores the reason people use roller mats. The whole point is that the filter media gets changed out reliably and quickly without a person having to deal with it.

Talking about cost is never ignoring the point. Heck if price was no object I’d just pay someone to come to my house every 3 days to do maintenance, or just add it to the task list of my full time butler or housekeeper.

Based on what others were saying with my specific tank and the roller mats I was looking at, we would be taking $500-700 just in fleece per year! That’s highway robbery and not worth the convenience factor to me. I’d just as soon go without mechanical filtration. Cost is always part of the conversation.

 

[Treefer32]

Or run a hang on back large filter floss filter (like used in Freshwater) on our sumps. . . . .Lol. Much cheaper and easier to maintain than filter rollers. Ha!