How to make a cheap aquarium filter www.bettasplendens.co.uk

http://www.oscarfish.co.uk How to make a really cheap aquarium/fish tank filter. Once the filter is made connect the airline to the air pump place the filter totally immersed and switch on the air pump.The air bubbles will rise in the tube and draw water with them. As this happens water will rush in through the filter down through the holes that you melted in the bottom piece. this causes a flow through the filter.

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[InkRoze]

What about that sticky glue on the outside of the bottle from the wrapper design? How did you take that off, is it harmful to the fish to leave it there?

[dinger454]

@InkRoze i dont touch the stick stuff it has never had an effect on my fish

[bibilic100]

i'd rather buy a 100 bux filter

[dinger454]

@bibilic100 thats your prerogative but not an option when you have 30 tanks.

[bhannon]

I like the simplicity but part of getting a fish tank is to add class to a room/atmosphere.

Jimmy-rigging it this way def saves some dough, but also makes it appear that you are also a part-time hobbyist in making meth.

Cheers though for your resourcefulness!

[dinger454]

@1Filmproducer if i were you i would put more than one in a 60 gallon and it will depend upon how many fish and what type you have in them. I use these in my Betta guppy and angel fish grow out tanks and for my breeding pairs of Angels in 20 gallon tanks mostly but i do have a few 50 gallon tanks with 3 litre ones.

[1Filmproducer]

@dinger454 could i make one that does enough for a 60 gallon aquarium??

[stickyZ14]

thank you! thank you! VERY MUCH THIS REALLY HELPED ME ...

[obookx]

great idea, this is easy to clean.

thanks.

[BEYBLADETRICKSHOWER]

Thnx it realy helped dude!

[mrshoecolletor]

does it filter the water

[dinger454]

@SuperWaterfowler10 Once you place plates in tank cover them with gravel. When your power heads are connected to the uplift tubes the water is sucked through the gravel and beneficial bacteria will build up in the gravel bed giving you a massive biological filter. That said Oscars like to dig in the gravel and once the plates are uncovered they are useless. trick is to add layer of gravel on plates, add gravel tidy & then another layer of gravel. Oscars can only dig down 2 gravel tidy then

[SuperWaterfowler10]

@dinger454 I had a Marineland 150 on it and a undergravel filter thing. I have two white grates with two powerheads hooked up to them but that didnt work. I then took out the Undergravel filter and only left the Marineland 150. This did nothing so i just went out today and bought a Marineland 350 which should be more then enough to filter the water. I dont however get the undergravel filter. It doesnt have a screen or anything. I dont see how pulling water through the grates does anything,Thanks