So I quickly knitted a little square of the roughest acrylic in my stash (leftover from Nanny's afghan - I'll post about that later) and seamed up the long side and one end...
Then I filled it about 1/2 way full of Activated Charcoal...
I intended to sew the end shut or put a drawstring on it - Then I thought of a better design - it seemed to me that it would be better to hold it open and let the water flow through the bag instead of over it - so I needed something to hold the bag open...
...and right there in front of me was the ring on the top of the water jug...
...so I popped that off and slipped it into the opening...
How ingenuous. E
ReplyDeleteI love it! Please teach me how to knit. I have aquariums in need of filtration!
ReplyDeleteHi Kristy,
ReplyDeleteKnitting worked best for me - cause I'm frual and all and like to use what I have at hand - but I think you could probably buy some quilt batting and just hand stitch around a pouch to hold some activated charcoal - it wouldn't take much.
Affectioknit-ly,
Teresa
how is it working? is your "sock" collecting the debris? good idea - rich's big tank has 3 - 20 gallon size filters - lot's of water needs to move to keep those big, dirty oscars healthy! i might try something like that (not knitted, of course!) love, k
ReplyDeleteHey K,
ReplyDeleteTry it with some quilt batting - it looks sort of like the fabric on my store bought filters...
Love,
T