Anyone with experience/photos/plans for flow through system?

[lifeoffaith]

Hey there,

This is my first real post on the forums. I've replied to a couple and I think I put an intro out there a couple days ago. My question is if anyone out there has put together a flow through system including filtration or lack thereof. I know there are a number of differing opinions on flow through and would like to see what has worked for others out there. My tank setup will be 1000-1500 gallon DIY plywood tank with viewing window, for somewhere around 10-15 koi. I know I will need to filter more or flow more through with that many fish, but I plan on doing a bottom drain to a settlement chamber to take out some of the fines from the bottom as well as a skimmer which may be where the overflow is housed along with a small pump to a shower tower or bog/flow through/moving bed type filter. I know koi are going to be messier than alot of your fish, but I'm pretty sure the basic concepts should be similar at least. Thanks for any help you can provide. I really would appreciate detail pictures, plans and suggestions!!!

 

[rbarn]

Should work fine. The bottom drain and good separation chamber system will be what you need to focus on.

Check over at www.Koiphen.com as well. They were a big help when I set-up my 5,000gallon outdoor Koi pond

 

[DIDYSIS]

Look into a sand or bead filter, ultima brand or others. Closed loop systems

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[rbarn]

This is my outdoor system.
The bottom drains feed into a Wlim Vortex poop separator and the skimmers feed into a modified sand filter filled with K1 sinking media and huge UV light on a closed loop system

Plain ole pool sand filters with the flow reversed in direction make fine bio-media chambers and cost a fraction of what purpose built ones do for the same basic thing

 

[DIDYSIS]

Wow that's some amazing looking stuff. Nice work

This is my outdoor system.
The bottom drains feed into a Wlim Vortex poop separator and the skimmers feed into a modified sand filter filled with K1 sinking media and huge UV light on a closed loop system

Plain ole pool sand filters with the flow reversed in direction make fine bio-media chambers and cost a fraction of what purpose built ones do for the same basic thing

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[lifeoffaith]

I have to do everything DIY that I can. I'm trying to save to finish an adoption from Ghana that my wife and I started about a year and a half ago. We should be getting our referral soon. Later I may be able to do more.

 

[lifeoffaith]

I'm looking for a decent priced place to buy glass for this project. I'm willing to buy and then build the tank around it if need be. Thanks for any suggestions!

 

[lifeoffaith]

Ok, I threw together a couple of pictures of what I'm thinking for the setup. I could pipe the flow through piping anywhere, so any suggestions on that would be appreciated as well. I guess my biggest question would be what you would suggest for glass thickness. I'd like to go the full 5 foot height with the glass and possibly leave the top without a frame around it and then just support the glass and the tank with support beams on either side of the glass. I'm new to tank building, so any suggestions on changes would be greatly appreciated!

 

[rbarn]

Do some more research on the Koi pond forums on how they set-up their multi stage gravity feed chambers.
There are many settlement chamber designs to chose from, but the basic layout and system is the same

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[Pharaoh]

There is a guy in Ohio selling some glass/acrylic. Username is Sphyrna I think. Check the marketplace