What about just building it in the tank itself? I mean, the sand wont come out, just the clean water, and the pump and the filter stays in rather then out the tank.
@xalevedi Sure you could do that but that would be a rookie move. This is a 300 gallon cube tank with some very large fish in it and there is a over flow tower already taking up space in the tank.
@takadi Yes a pump mives the water up to the tank. The water moves through the filter simply by falling back to the sump through the sand. Best fishes David goldfishgarageDOTcom
single pass bio-filtration in the smallest foot print possible with out additional pumping or energy required. This tank has a 22 inch and 28 inch redtail catfish, a 20 inch florida gar and a 32 inch african lung fish so that's a lot of ammonia to process. The media is glass beads but I also put caribsea oolitic aragonite (sugar sand) in the reactor to feed carbonates to the bacteria and buffer the pH. Best fishes David goldfishgarage com.
@ridwanlay Have you ever read up on these filters? These,in my opinion, are the best for breaking down fish waste.easy to make,very cheap to purchase,compared to other biological filters! They will outperform,biologically,any other style filters out there.I'd take a guess and say this filter would be good for around 500 gallons or so.
What about just building it in the tank itself? I mean, the sand wont come out, just the clean water, and the pump and the filter stays in rather then out the tank.
xalevedi 7 months ago
@xalevedi Sure you could do that but that would be a rookie move. This is a 300 gallon cube tank with some very large fish in it and there is a over flow tower already taking up space in the tank.
Ichthius 7 months ago
What's the flow rate to make that possible?
MrPicusb 10 months ago
But you still need a pump to get the water back into the tank, don't you? It's hard for me to imagine this being solely run by gravity
takadi 1 year ago
@takadi Yes a pump mives the water up to the tank. The water moves through the filter simply by falling back to the sump through the sand. Best fishes David goldfishgarageDOTcom
Ichthius 1 year ago
amazing
takadi 1 year ago
How did you make DIY plz?
Kakashi101sensi 1 year ago
single pass bio-filtration in the smallest foot print possible with out additional pumping or energy required. This tank has a 22 inch and 28 inch redtail catfish, a 20 inch florida gar and a 32 inch african lung fish so that's a lot of ammonia to process. The media is glass beads but I also put caribsea oolitic aragonite (sugar sand) in the reactor to feed carbonates to the bacteria and buffer the pH. Best fishes David goldfishgarage com.
Ichthius 1 year ago
what the benefit of it..?
ridwanlay 1 year ago
@ridwanlay Have you ever read up on these filters? These,in my opinion, are the best for breaking down fish waste.easy to make,very cheap to purchase,compared to other biological filters! They will outperform,biologically,any other style filters out there.I'd take a guess and say this filter would be good for around 500 gallons or so.
sc2dave 11 months ago