i am currently setting up a 700 gallon freshwater stingray tank. the tank is going to have a heavy bio load as well as requires HEAVY mechanical filtration. i am not at all concerned with chemical filtration (carbon/ion exhange media).
i am currently on the fence on whether i want to build my own large wet/dry system (which i have done in the past with great success on my 180 gal tank). the wet dry's mechanical filtration would consisted of 100% of the water first flowing through a series of 32" 100micron mesh filter bags. the water would then flow over a combination of bio-balls/ceramic beads for bio filtration OR
Whether i should buy a product on the market called Xtreme biofilter. its basically a souped up bead filter system traditionally used for pond filtration. instead of using beads they use a mcuh better patented filter media that produces huge surface are for bio-filtration and exceptional mecahnical filtration. the benfit to this system would be that it would be a closed system AND i would never have to clean the filter media because it has a backwash feature such as a poll filter does which agitates the media, knocks off all the waste and gets washed down the drain!!!
can anyone who has a large home-made wet dry post photos of it please? any input would be appreciated! thanks!!!!
i am currently on the fence on whether i want to build my own large wet/dry system (which i have done in the past with great success on my 180 gal tank). the wet dry's mechanical filtration would consisted of 100% of the water first flowing through a series of 32" 100micron mesh filter bags. the water would then flow over a combination of bio-balls/ceramic beads for bio filtration OR
Whether i should buy a product on the market called Xtreme biofilter. its basically a souped up bead filter system traditionally used for pond filtration. instead of using beads they use a mcuh better patented filter media that produces huge surface are for bio-filtration and exceptional mecahnical filtration. the benfit to this system would be that it would be a closed system AND i would never have to clean the filter media because it has a backwash feature such as a poll filter does which agitates the media, knocks off all the waste and gets washed down the drain!!!
can anyone who has a large home-made wet dry post photos of it please? any input would be appreciated! thanks!!!!
