Hennie, I always walk through the shops and especially shops like plastics for africa with open eyes. What do they have and for what I can use it.
With hopefully beeing a farmer soon, but with no clue about cows and milkproduction, I never would have thought of these milk filter socks.
Right from the beginning I was thinking to use filtersocks. Then I could not find plankton mesh and after I found it, it was to expensive.
Surely, I could have made socks from mesh, but then I have to wash them out, etc.
To much work. But know, I´m very happy with this solution.
The short sock is running well for 24 hours, filters the overflow from 3 broodstock tanks (375 lite volume).
The long sock in the growout can handle 18 to 20 hours before it overflows. So I replace it by view. It´s quick to do and the result in terms of visible dirt in the filtersock is quite amazing. I mean, what amount of waste gets produced by 3 Pairs?
And the sock is almost overflowing after 24 hours.
Next step is to put in each broodstock tank a 3 or 5000 litre sun sun pump, with a timer. So all the settlement gets lifted into the column and caught in the socks.
I believe, that parasites like MI gets caught in the sock too.
I think it would be worth to research the sizes of MI, but I´m sure it will get caught in the sock.
Every LFS should think of adding this kind of filteration to avoid spreading MI or other parasites.
The problem at any LFS is, there fish is swimming in overstocked tanks with very little flow and movement. After a good clean, the sediment gets into the column and MI starts to attack the fish. The same thing happened to me twice. Since I run to sun sun pumps at night to lift the sediment from during the day, I don´t have any problems with MI or bacteria infections.
The best idea since developing the wheel! Thanks again, Hennie. I owe you one.
In case somebody is interested to build this kind of filter, I still have to make one and I will take some more pictures.