A marine biologist friend once ranted to me about how there's no use buying expensive filters when all you need is some carbon and pantyhose.
Well, I ran out of bags today and tried this out. AMAZING. I replaced the broken sack of an Aquaclear Biomax bag and 3 Whisper filters filled with carbon and/or aragonite. I will NEVER put aragonite in a regular filter bag again - you can't get all of it out to make sure you're maintaining the amount, and so eventually you end up with these terrible, gross, delicate bags of yuck. With pantyhose/tights, there's no gross bag and no "leakage" because it holds in even the finest of grains.
I tied it at the bottom (if not the foot), twisted it at the top, and reinforced it a few times by turning it inside out after the twist and wrapping it again in the opposite direction. Even a very heavy/full bag of aragonite was perfectly reinforced/strong. Each leg was worth 2 filters, so if I didn't already have this lying around it would have cost me only $0.50 a bag. If you wear pantyhose/tights, there's no reason that you can't use the "spared" portions of ripped ones to make this a $0.00 expense! But regardless of price, this works awesome and is worth a try.
I also plan to use the remaining material to keep little pieces of java moss out of my Aqueon filter and gravel vac.
Well, I ran out of bags today and tried this out. AMAZING. I replaced the broken sack of an Aquaclear Biomax bag and 3 Whisper filters filled with carbon and/or aragonite. I will NEVER put aragonite in a regular filter bag again - you can't get all of it out to make sure you're maintaining the amount, and so eventually you end up with these terrible, gross, delicate bags of yuck. With pantyhose/tights, there's no gross bag and no "leakage" because it holds in even the finest of grains.
I tied it at the bottom (if not the foot), twisted it at the top, and reinforced it a few times by turning it inside out after the twist and wrapping it again in the opposite direction. Even a very heavy/full bag of aragonite was perfectly reinforced/strong. Each leg was worth 2 filters, so if I didn't already have this lying around it would have cost me only $0.50 a bag. If you wear pantyhose/tights, there's no reason that you can't use the "spared" portions of ripped ones to make this a $0.00 expense! But regardless of price, this works awesome and is worth a try.
I also plan to use the remaining material to keep little pieces of java moss out of my Aqueon filter and gravel vac.
