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So I've had a long journey with filtration. I started with a 55 gallon tank with two marineland emperor 400's.
it wasn't good enough. So I added a magnum 350 and replaced my heater from 1994 with a new eheim jager.
Swapped out the tank for a 75 gallon and added an eheim 2075 filter. the big 160g one.
filter pads for all these filters are expensive when you're what I considered slightly over-stocked. My water conditions have always been pristine, but the cost was getting to me.
I added a 50 gallon acrylic sump I picked up in exchange for a 500w heater from a friend who had been using it on a 150 salt.
When I did this I pulled all my media, added 10 more liters of eheim media, and put it all in media bags and threw it in the sump with my areator and heater.
The water is returned with a Mag 9.5 pump that I dialed down by adding 4 extra feet of hose.
The mechanical filtration is a 7" filter sock
Recently I decided I wasn't happy with the set-up. It looked clean as everything was self contained in the sump.
So, I brought the mag350 back out and filled it with carbon, put the intake hose in the sump, and the output into a 5 gallon wet/dry box I obtained for free, and filled that sucker with bio balls, and threw the bio-wheels from the penguin400's in to the sump to keep the bacteria alive until I give those filters to a friend.
Right now everything is a mess, because by recently I decided I mean 45 minutes ago I did this. I have to clean it all up. I was thinking of building a small stand for the sump, and putting the 20 gallon long tank the mag350 is in in front of that.
By the way, what looks like the front of the stand is the back. The tank stands behind my couch and acts as a room-divider between the living room and the laundry room. so it's not a big deal that the sump isn't in the stand. that it doesn't fit in because it's so wide.
I was just looking for some feedback on how I might clean this up. it's a simple 2 chamber sump.
and the filter sock isn't in the holder because I was just moving everything around chaoticly.
also, I can't set up the eheim filter with the sump because it needs the head pressure from the tank to make it run properly, where the mag350 spits out water like a champ even if you elevate it above the water level. so I think I'm going to sell it.
What you think guys? about everything but the mess it's in right now.
So I've had a long journey with filtration. I started with a 55 gallon tank with two marineland emperor 400's.
it wasn't good enough. So I added a magnum 350 and replaced my heater from 1994 with a new eheim jager.
Swapped out the tank for a 75 gallon and added an eheim 2075 filter. the big 160g one.
filter pads for all these filters are expensive when you're what I considered slightly over-stocked. My water conditions have always been pristine, but the cost was getting to me.
I added a 50 gallon acrylic sump I picked up in exchange for a 500w heater from a friend who had been using it on a 150 salt.
When I did this I pulled all my media, added 10 more liters of eheim media, and put it all in media bags and threw it in the sump with my areator and heater.
The water is returned with a Mag 9.5 pump that I dialed down by adding 4 extra feet of hose.
The mechanical filtration is a 7" filter sock
Recently I decided I wasn't happy with the set-up. It looked clean as everything was self contained in the sump.
So, I brought the mag350 back out and filled it with carbon, put the intake hose in the sump, and the output into a 5 gallon wet/dry box I obtained for free, and filled that sucker with bio balls, and threw the bio-wheels from the penguin400's in to the sump to keep the bacteria alive until I give those filters to a friend.
Right now everything is a mess, because by recently I decided I mean 45 minutes ago I did this. I have to clean it all up. I was thinking of building a small stand for the sump, and putting the 20 gallon long tank the mag350 is in in front of that.
By the way, what looks like the front of the stand is the back. The tank stands behind my couch and acts as a room-divider between the living room and the laundry room. so it's not a big deal that the sump isn't in the stand. that it doesn't fit in because it's so wide.
I was just looking for some feedback on how I might clean this up. it's a simple 2 chamber sump.
and the filter sock isn't in the holder because I was just moving everything around chaoticly.
also, I can't set up the eheim filter with the sump because it needs the head pressure from the tank to make it run properly, where the mag350 spits out water like a champ even if you elevate it above the water level. so I think I'm going to sell it.
What you think guys? about everything but the mess it's in right now.
