I have just recently purchased a 125 gallon aquarium that I am going to put my oscar in and a few other fish. I currently have a 90 gallon aquarium with my oscar and a large common pleco. On that tank I use two eheim 2217's and a couple of power heads with prefilter foam on the intakes. I am going to have those filters on the new tank but would like to add another filter to the new tank. I have a 29 gallon tank that I would like to convert into a sump filter but I have never done or seen a sump filter first hand. I am handy and I get the basics but more research never hurts. Here is a drawing of what I am thinking. If anyone has any thoughts or ideas I am all ears. Also I have no interest in a refugium. Just want the filter to be a filter. Thanks!
First sump filter questions
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Re design and other thoughts
So here is a redesign of my filter. I am planning on having mainly mechanical filtration in the first chamber. I have several chambers in this filter so that I can rinse each chamber a week or so apart from each other, when cleaning is needed, so that I do not crash the tank. I did have another question though for anyone out there. I have read a lot about a wet dry filter because it gives sufficient oxygen to the bacteria. Instead of having the tower and trickle system I were to just put an air stone in the first chamber? I feel that any bubbles would "pop" before they get to the pump. I am also thinking of a few things for my media. In the first chamber I am thinking varying densities of filter pads. In the next four chambers I will have some sort of bio media. I am thinking lava rock or crushed unglazed pottery. I am a potter and have a ton of bisque fired pottery around. In the last media chamber I am going to put maybe carbon or other chemical filtration. In the pump chamber I will put my heaters and the pump obviously. The heaters are not going to be placed that high in the last chamber I just sketch them in real quick. My first design I had the walls way to high and I think if I had a power outage I would have a lot of water on the floor. I am now planning on using a 55 gallon aquarium for my sump and having my water level in that tank at about 5/8ths full. That leaves about 20-25 gallons of free space in the tank. If my calculation are correct that should be plenty. I am planning on starting the build for this filter this week or next week. If anyone has any advice on design I am all ears.
So here is a redesign of my filter. I am planning on having mainly mechanical filtration in the first chamber. I have several chambers in this filter so that I can rinse each chamber a week or so apart from each other, when cleaning is needed, so that I do not crash the tank. I did have another question though for anyone out there. I have read a lot about a wet dry filter because it gives sufficient oxygen to the bacteria. Instead of having the tower and trickle system I were to just put an air stone in the first chamber? I feel that any bubbles would "pop" before they get to the pump. I am also thinking of a few things for my media. In the first chamber I am thinking varying densities of filter pads. In the next four chambers I will have some sort of bio media. I am thinking lava rock or crushed unglazed pottery. I am a potter and have a ton of bisque fired pottery around. In the last media chamber I am going to put maybe carbon or other chemical filtration. In the pump chamber I will put my heaters and the pump obviously. The heaters are not going to be placed that high in the last chamber I just sketch them in real quick. My first design I had the walls way to high and I think if I had a power outage I would have a lot of water on the floor. I am now planning on using a 55 gallon aquarium for my sump and having my water level in that tank at about 5/8ths full. That leaves about 20-25 gallons of free space in the tank. If my calculation are correct that should be plenty. I am planning on starting the build for this filter this week or next week. If anyone has any advice on design I am all ears.
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