wet dry filter

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HugeGhost

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I wanted to know if this wet dry i just made can actually work. I filled a 5 gallon bucket with bioballs and stars and media and put it next to my 140 gallon tank. Then i put a super strong rio pump with a sponge in it and attached tubing on the end of the rio and put it back to the tank. Then i used another piece of tubing the same size to siphon water into the bucket bam then i adjust the rio to equal the same as the tube siphoning in WATER INTO THE BUCKET!
CAN THAT ACTUALLY WORK I PLAN ON SWITHCHING THE BUCKET TO A 2O GALLON TANK! Any advice would greatly be appreciated i just set it up and it seems to be working OK
 
HugeGhost said:
I wanted to know if this wet dry i just made can actually work. I filled a 5 gallon bucket with bioballs and stars and media and put it next to my 140 gallon tank. Then i put a super strong rio pump with a sponge in it and attached tubing on the end of the rio and put it back to the tank. Then i used another piece of tubing the same size to siphon water into the bucket bam then i adjust the rio to equal the same as the tube siphoning in WATER INTO THE BUCKET!
CAN THAT ACTUALLY WORK I PLAN ON SWITHCHING THE BUCKET TO A 2O GALLON TANK! Any advice would greatly be appreciated i just set it up and it seems to be working OK
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Yes it would work fine just one small problem if your pump failed or it gets blocked up you flood your room and kill the fish, make sure there is a hole in the siphoned tube a few inches down this way stops the problem. In my fish room a few years back I did the opposite I had a large power head in the tank this pumped up to a large drum full of bio balls with a layer of sponge on to this had an over flow that then just ran back into the tank. No pretty in a house but great in a fish room. Maintenance was simple just take sponge off top wash in tank water put back worked really well.
 
stotty said:
Yes it would work fine just one small problem if your pump failed or it gets blocked up you flood your room and kill the fish, make sure there is a hole in the siphoned tube a few inches down this way stops the problem. In my fish room a few years back I did the opposite I had a large power head in the tank this pumped up to a large drum full of bio balls with a layer of sponge on to this had an over flow that then just ran back into the tank. No pretty in a house but great in a fish room. Maintenance was simple just take sponge off top wash in tank water put back worked really well.
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thanks for the fast reply bro i dont understand what ya mean about making a hole in the tube since both tubes can be potential hazzards if anything fails

what i did was i keep both ends that go into the tank only 1 inch below the surface so in an emergency if anything fails i would only loose 1 inch of water from the tank! Would that actually be functional can i just leave a bucket like that rigged up.
 
That’s fine but the intake you want low to suck up the detritus so on the uplift (intake)where it bends over about 2” (in the water) drill a hole if the tank gets low it will brake the siphoned that way no more flow back into the filter.
 
Okay well now i have a 30 gallon storage container its plastic with 20 gallon worth of bioballs and stars and various other expensive media. I have a big rio pump with a sponge on the bottom of the container with a 3 quarter inch tube connected to it going to the tank making my current! I have a half inch siphon tube in the tank siphoning water thru a old fluval canister filter with sponges, after the water goes thru the sponges and canister it pours onto all the bioballs.
I have been having trouble regulating the rio to equal the siphon but when i am not home i take off the siphon and just let the rio airrate the bioballs etc then when i get home from work i set it back up.

please any advice would really help the tank is flushed against the wall with no holes for any overflow stuff will my way actually work and will my 140 be totally awesome its freshwater but i want the water perfect for my school of Payaras tahnks everybody in advance
 
The problem with that is you have made it over complicated and by switching off the filter for long terms say if you went down the pup and came home late all the bacteria in the filter could be dead. As I say the simple way bucket next to tank bio balls filter wool. Have the pump in the tank and have an over flow back into tank. There are so many ways to do this but you must always consider you could flood your room and kill your fish. The idea off switching it off defeats the idea off having it. If you put that hole in the uplift siphoned tube 1” under the water any problems and it will stop draining. You need a power head that has not got a sponge on it as as this clogs up it will reduce the flow. Come on there members:feedback: . I put one on the side off my tank sectioned off a bit put in a glass divider a bit of perforated plastic bio balls and a power head works really well and safe.

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This was the sort of thing I had over the tank water pumped up by pump flows through gravity takes it away had extra hole at to as emergency over flow if media got blocked. But if you are running with your idea you must have the hole drilled inside the tank, about a half-inch below the water level.That way, if your pump failed and a back-siphon occurred, you'd only lose as much water as was in the tank above the hole before the hole was exposed to the air, breaking the siphon. This is the way I had it set up in my tank and it works correctly every time you turn off the pump.

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ok now i have a better understanding of it all i took down the one i made its way to hard to adjust the pump to equal whats being siphoned out. The overflow method is the only way to go i will work on rigging something up like you did bro thanks for all the awesome help your friend Howie
 
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