meicalnissyen
Aquarium Advice Newbie
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- Jan 21, 2016
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Greetings
The attached pic is of my stacked setup. its been running for appx 4 years.
I am stealing a few feet from the front room to make the guest BR larger and just finished sliding the stack over to accomodate that.
a couple years ago I replaced the 55 in the bottom slot with a 75, and I have enough meat in the frame I built to do this with the other 2, which I am seriously considering doing for several reasons, one of which being framing around the tanks and creating veiwing windows. the stack is in essence an extension of the main hallway in the house as is.
SO
I've been running intank pond pumps, pushing thru a pair of household filters loaded with bio media with a foam sock on the pump for mechanical.
the exact setup varies abit between the tanks (rings, miniballs, creamics etc)
but in essence same setups.
My TECO power here in tampa is pretty unreliable so i'm hesitant to do an overflow to a sump, but there is no species related reason I know of to avoid comingling the waters
looking forward to breaking the system down, blasting and adding a small brace to my feet, repainting bringing back online with a quiet efficient filtration sys. though part of me is hesitant to fix something thats not really broke
I have to do a swap of the socks every 10days ish, and open the cannisters up to rinse of the bio every 6 to 8 weeks
I would love to hear or see some ideas to do a neater job of filtering
the three tanks are:
huge oscar
big red devil (real a-hole that one)
community of convicts terrors oscars
The attached pic is of my stacked setup. its been running for appx 4 years.
I am stealing a few feet from the front room to make the guest BR larger and just finished sliding the stack over to accomodate that.
a couple years ago I replaced the 55 in the bottom slot with a 75, and I have enough meat in the frame I built to do this with the other 2, which I am seriously considering doing for several reasons, one of which being framing around the tanks and creating veiwing windows. the stack is in essence an extension of the main hallway in the house as is.
SO
I've been running intank pond pumps, pushing thru a pair of household filters loaded with bio media with a foam sock on the pump for mechanical.
the exact setup varies abit between the tanks (rings, miniballs, creamics etc)
but in essence same setups.
My TECO power here in tampa is pretty unreliable so i'm hesitant to do an overflow to a sump, but there is no species related reason I know of to avoid comingling the waters
looking forward to breaking the system down, blasting and adding a small brace to my feet, repainting bringing back online with a quiet efficient filtration sys. though part of me is hesitant to fix something thats not really broke
I have to do a swap of the socks every 10days ish, and open the cannisters up to rinse of the bio every 6 to 8 weeks
I would love to hear or see some ideas to do a neater job of filtering
the three tanks are:
huge oscar
big red devil (real a-hole that one)
community of convicts terrors oscars