100 micron cloth that is about 1/4" thick. Can't find the stuff online yet but the LFS where the girlfriend works has this cloth that is about $10 for approx a square yard. Its a white cloth like fabric that rinses in a couple seconds and traps *everything*. For example: we just added a bag of aragonite substrate (remodeling a tank) and even after the usual pre-rinse it still dusted the tank pretty badly. We supplemented the usual filter with the 100 micron cloth and it pulled the dust out in just a couple minutes.
Just cut a piece to fit as a drop in for your filter and you can watch it catch crud/turn colors. If you have just done a tank cleaning/scrub putting these in will have the tank back to crystal clear in a couple minutes. Once they clog (doesn't take long, minutes sometimes, if your tank is nasty) just pull and rinse and you are good to go. Totally re-usable.
The stuff is dirt cheap and works great. I have not seen much said about it elsewhere so I thought I'd post it here. If I can find an online source I'll post it. Anyone local to Atlanta, "Fish Store and More" should have some in stock.
Hope this helps...
100 micron cloth
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