tropicalfish
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Hello All!
I am new to this forum.
I decided to share my work-in-progress project to get some "improvement" ideas. I am working on a two chamber canister filter which will be for my 10 gallon hex. This AquaClear in my tank is rated for 30 gallons and I will soon move that to the empty 30 gallon.
The containers are plastic and glass. They both have plastic screw on caps.
The first chamber is the filter chamber, which also contains the pump. Water will come down into the filter and flow upwards into the chamber, then get pumped to the second chamber. The second chamber, the glass jar, contains the heater, and water will spiral around it from the top back to the top. At the bottom of the jar are round clear glass marbles for weights. These two containers are clear.
The heater is a VISI-Therm 50 Watt.
Since I am working on this with no additional purchase, I will try to fit in the penguin powerhead 550. The impeller broke a while back, and I found an unneeded Top Fin 60 impeller that works perfectly. pictures next:
Note: Sorry for bad pic quality, camera broke so using webcam
[img=http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/6149/picture86dx5.th.jpg] [img=http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/7158/picture85ux1.th.jpg] [img=http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/4409/picture84jj8.th.jpg] [img=http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/2603/picture82tt0.th.jpg] [img=http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/8753/picture80hm1.th.jpg] [img=http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/8451/picture79yc8.th.jpg] [img=http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/2125/picture78bm3.th.jpg] [img=http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/7862/picture77pm0.th.jpg]
Forget the hole labeled "AIR IN" on chamber 2.
oops sorry the images didn't come out right. Will try to fix it next time...
just click the link thingies
I am new to this forum.
I decided to share my work-in-progress project to get some "improvement" ideas. I am working on a two chamber canister filter which will be for my 10 gallon hex. This AquaClear in my tank is rated for 30 gallons and I will soon move that to the empty 30 gallon.
The containers are plastic and glass. They both have plastic screw on caps.
The first chamber is the filter chamber, which also contains the pump. Water will come down into the filter and flow upwards into the chamber, then get pumped to the second chamber. The second chamber, the glass jar, contains the heater, and water will spiral around it from the top back to the top. At the bottom of the jar are round clear glass marbles for weights. These two containers are clear.
The heater is a VISI-Therm 50 Watt.
Since I am working on this with no additional purchase, I will try to fit in the penguin powerhead 550. The impeller broke a while back, and I found an unneeded Top Fin 60 impeller that works perfectly. pictures next:
Note: Sorry for bad pic quality, camera broke so using webcam
[img=http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/6149/picture86dx5.th.jpg] [img=http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/7158/picture85ux1.th.jpg] [img=http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/4409/picture84jj8.th.jpg] [img=http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/2603/picture82tt0.th.jpg] [img=http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/8753/picture80hm1.th.jpg] [img=http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/8451/picture79yc8.th.jpg] [img=http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/2125/picture78bm3.th.jpg] [img=http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/7862/picture77pm0.th.jpg]
Forget the hole labeled "AIR IN" on chamber 2.
oops sorry the images didn't come out right. Will try to fix it next time...
just click the link thingies