300 gal Filtration

[MatthewSiegel]

I am setting up a 300-gal cichlid tank and want to filter with a wet/dry. Two different LFS employees have suggested the Eshopps WD-300CS. The bio chamber seems a bit small for this size aquarium.

Thoughts? What do you guys recommend?

 

[swk]

That's the sump I use on my 180. For a tank that large you can either connect 2 commercially made sumps, or custom make one large one out of a 75+ gal aquarium.

 

[cigars]

Make your own great stuff in the diy section, I made my own wet dry with a plastic 3 drawer chest holds 5 gallon bucket full if bio balls still had space for more and I have 12L of bio rings under it and I have the heater in the sump (rubbermaid container) flows about 1000 gph (probably a little less but this is what the pump is rated for). In conjunction with this I have a fluval 405, ac110, and a emperor 400 for mechanical all on a 125 gallon definately overkill but it works flawlessly. I plan on making a larger one for my 265 gallon aquarium these diy filters work better and are cheaper to make than any filter you can buy IMO.

 

[tomojsg]

pick up a used 100g and use that as a sump

 

[hotsauce]

Im setting a 360gal up with a 125gal diy wet/dry. It all depends on the load in the tank

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