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It was an old net. The holes have to restrict the shrimp from getting through but allow the fish to suck them through.
Here is more of a closeup, which I know is not going to help much but it is all I have

What kind of mesh do you use?

This Blog is awesomely informative and hilarious at the same time keep up the good work!

I thought you had an Atlantic tank.

You don't really need one as any canister filter will work. But I feel that if this is not done occasionally, you can never have a really old tank.
I know that is not everyone's goal but it would be nice to strive for it anyway, just in case it happens.

I kind of want to buy one of those. We discussed it years ago, but I never got around to it.

Thats because I did it with smoke and mirrors. In the picture there is no fitting and sometimes I don't use it as that acrylic tube is rather thin and the water comes out very fast. A diatom filter has a powerful motor and blows the gravel around pretty good.
You can see the straight acrylic on the left diatom filter. The other one was just to suck up detritus. I can do it with one filter but it takes twice as long.

I don't see any fitting or obvious indicator of how tubing was used for flow, but that makes sense.

I understand the diatom filters, but I don't understand how you are blasting everything. Are you pumping water down through the risers of the under gravel filter? Are you using a powerhead to blast off the rockwork and corals because that is much easier than pumping a turkey baster.

I don't understand what you don't understand. In the picture you can see an acrylic tube on the outflow side of the diatom filter. I usually put a restriction on that tube like a small funnel that makes it into a power washer and go over and into all the pores in the rock. Then I blow around the gravel right down to the UG filter plate. Everything gets blasted except of course the corals because this would destroy them.

I think he is using the outlet of the diatom filters to jet stream the rock, gravel, etc.

See, he understands it.

I think he is using the outlet of the diatom filters to jet stream the rock, gravel, etc.

I understand the diatom filters, but I don't understand how you are blasting everything. Are you pumping water down through the risers of the under gravel filter? Are you using a powerhead to blast off the rockwork and corals because that is much easier than pumping a turkey baster.

I thought maybe we would see a frowning fish picture

Yes I use LEDs. I guess I could enlarge it in photoshop, correct?

When I tried to view it, it was 797 x 199 tall. I suppose if it was 400 tall, it would be about 1600 wide and thus more easily viewed.

Are you using LED lighting now? It looks that way from the video.

How do I make it larger? I have no idea, I uploaded it from photobucket.
I got a video

I'd like to see the picture, but it's pretty small. Got a link to a wider one we can scroll through? I have to say, I'm impressed with the silicone job of this tank, assuming it is the same one you've had for 41 years.

I took a new picture

No sump for me. This thing revolves just hiting the water for maybe 10 seconds. There is no pump and no slots involved

thats interesting!

The only problem I've had with the vertical screen system I'm using now is when the water slot at the top gets plugged and it squirts water out of the sump. I seem to have fixed that now by draping a piece of black plastic over the top. It prevents algae from growing at the slot and plugging it up, and catches any squirts, directing them back down the screen. So far no problems since I added the plastic.

But you system doesn't seem to have any water under pressure. I'm assuming this just sits on top of a sump?