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23-11-2004, 03:11 PM

(Trapper) wrote in message . com...
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I'll probably end up diatomming overnight. Will follow up as to how
things go after all the green buggers have been extracted.

Now I'm worried my diatom filter isn't up to snuff. I ran it for
about 14 hrs, with input and exhaust in my sump, and the water has
gone from 6" visibility to about 18". I find this disappointing; I
would have thought the diatom filter would be much more efficient than
this. Flow rate is down to, oh, maybe 50-75 gph.

Is this about what people have seen, performance-wise, from their
diatom filters?

Sorry to reply to my own post. There seemed little point in spawning
a new thread.

--Trapper