What a GREAT idea! The "spawning" brushes used for filtration are *much*
more expensive . . . shoot, you could buy a whole bunch of these toilet bowl
cleaners and use them as filtration material in the main filter! Cool!

Lee

"Rhino" wrote in message
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On Wed, 28 May 2003 23:45:46 -0500, Rhino wrote:

I hae a mag-drive pump that normally has a foam prefilter that is stuck
on a
plastic, slotted "spindle". During the algae bloom this spring it got
so that
I was cleaning the foam at least once a day. I got to looking at using a
bottle
brush to catch the bigger stuff and let the smaller stuff that was
clogging the
foam go through to the veggie filter (okay, not veggie--read plant and
biofilter). While at wally world I found two .99 cent toilet brushes. I
cut
the handles off and just stuck them onto the "spindle". The brushes
catch the
pump-damaging stuff and the rest goes on through. Even though I have
clear
water now, I'm only having to clean the brushes once a week or more.



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Check out My home page and click on the "2002 pond pics" to see the
"Toilet Bowl
Prefilter"



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