strange idea, using power filter.

[neoginn]

While i was cleaning my tanks today i got an idea for my saltwater tank. let me run it by you... I wonder if i could take a power filter and pretty much take out the back and make it bigger. that way i could fill it with live rock or macro algae. the container i would be using to make enlarge the back of the filter is shallow only 4 inches deep but it is 1 foot square. once again its only an idea, but one that struck me as plausiable. what do you guys think?

 

[Toirtis]

it would take some engineering to make sure that all the 'media' had proper flow-through, but I suppose it could work (although what you are suggesting sounds a biy large)...I have done Aquaclear 300s & 500s as refugiums full of rock rubble and macroalgaes, lit by small, clip-on compact flourescent lights.

 

[neoginn]

really my goal or inspiration for this idea is just to improve the water quality. and i was thinking that if i grew some plants in the filter that it would control the nitrate or nitrite problem that is common in saltwater tanks.

 

[boxxmann]

I think that it would work w/ a little engineering to make the box bigger. Great idea!