I couldnt find any threads on it but has anyone turned an HOB into an internal filter, not as complicated as Im making it sound. Heres my situation, I have a turtle tank with an ac70 but Im worried the water dropping from a foot will be disturbing when I sleep, so I need to figure a way to get it closer to or in the water, I was thinking of wrapping it in a large sandwich baggy and then putting it in a tupperware bin and velcro it onto the tank lower to stabilize. Anyone have any experience with something similar.
DIY internal filter with an HOB
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The falling water will not disturb your Turtle. Is a semi domesticated animal not a person. While your worry is caring its not necessary. If you are truly concerned about your turtles welfare. Which you appear to be by this thread. Make sure your turtle has the largest tank it would require.
Just Prince;4510051; said:
I'm sure he cares about his turtle...but this is about the waterfall noise that annoys so many of us to no end.
Anyways, I think as long as you can mount it securely, have the intake & outtake where they need to be & whatnot, you'll be fine.
You could try to rig something up with PVC....not sure if I can describe this without a picture.
Get 8 90* adapters and pipe small enough to hold your HOB but big enough to support it. Run two long pieces of PVC parallel to each other into the tank, but 90* adapters on each end of both pieces, put just enough pvc at the top of the tank to get another 90* on there, these will hang over the edge of your tank. At the bottom, put enough pvc to give the backside of your HOB room to hang, then put 90*'s on both of those and run a piece in between them, hang your HOB on that piece.
Might not work, but I'd start thinking along those lines if it were me. Basically build yourself something to hang into your tank that you can hang the HOB on. Seems like thats gonna take up a LOT of space though....
Ohhh what about this...Get yourself a nice flat rock or a wide enough branch of driftwood and angle it from the water level or bottom of your tank up to just underneath the output. This way your water flow trickles down that instead of falling directly into the tank.
ORR figure out some way to basically funnel the water down into the tank. I don't know what would do it, but just get something wide enough to catch the water falling out and direct it into a tube of some sort and have that in your water.
I dunno...just brainstorming.
edit: or, if money isn't a big deal, you could replace the filter with one or two Magnum HOT's or a regular canister, these would be MUCH easier to affix a tube/hose to to run the water to wherever you want it.
Moloch;4510130; said:
Im thinking my easiest bet would be as you said with trickling the water down, maybe fixate a waterfall type mount so the water runs down back into the water without splashing, I like the ideas!!!
I got a whole new concept for you.
Just get yourself use to sleeping with the sound of the water. Soon your brain will relate that calming noise to sleep and you wont even notice it anymore. It becomes something to block out other sounds, just like how people listen to wind sounds while they sleep. Plus you can raise the water level to make it quieter. Plus you can rest assured your turtle is getting proper filtration even at night.
Just get yourself use to sleeping with the sound of the water. Soon your brain will relate that calming noise to sleep and you wont even notice it anymore. It becomes something to block out other sounds, just like how people listen to wind sounds while they sleep. Plus you can raise the water level to make it quieter. Plus you can rest assured your turtle is getting proper filtration even at night.
Redearsunfish;4510287; said:
There's an idea...Pile rocks up all the way to the filter so the water runs down over & between them. Might be easier than finding a rock large & flat enough to angle across your tank.
4" pvc pipe. boil it crimp it thin enough to encompass the out take of the HOB. Cut to size so it stands in tank. Slits on the bottom for water to escape. Cover with expanding foam to create a tree look. Cover in cement. color with colored cenment to make it look real. place in tank done.
Hope the image gives you the idea of what I am saying.
Hope the image gives you the idea of what I am saying.
Yeah I totally missed the "I". I thought he was worried about the Turtle. Try to diffuse the water flow onto one of those floating turtle platforms that can be suction cupped to the glass. You could turn the flow down on the filter at night.