KurtG wrote:
wolfdogg wrote:

i call it the stress free method,

I take advantage of the water changes to siphon/pump crud out of the
system. I've been dumping out 5 gal buckets of sludge lately.

Maybe you could set up the syphon from the collecting container into the sump in
such a way that most of the crud stays in the collecting container? Perhaps a
strainer on that syphon hose and set it up to pull water from the top of the
container.

I also use the syphon process to remove crud, and I don't have a sump, but
Wolfdogg's procedure sounds very practical. I would try to work out a way to
make it work for you.

George Patterson
Worry doesn't improve the future; it just ruins the present.