Drip system and Sponge Filter
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If you're sure your well water is OK with your fish, you might find this interesting.
I read here on MFK a couple years back, some Vietnamese/Thai/Laotian guys were talking about their tanks, they were really into flower horns, and extremely rare and large SA fish. They couldn't get really big tanks where they are, or big acrylic tanks were expensive, but they had all the free freshwater they could pipe into their house from a river they lived on.
So they rigged up a constant heavy stream of water from the river to flow into their tanks, and overflow out a bent elbow and hole in the side of the tank.
So on a 75 gallon tank, they were "dripping" like hundreds of gallons of water a day. They didn't have filters, they didn't care about bio-media, why bother. Just keep water flowing into and out of the tank, their fish thrive. Never do a water change.
I once heard discus breeders do something similar.
I read here on MFK a couple years back, some Vietnamese/Thai/Laotian guys were talking about their tanks, they were really into flower horns, and extremely rare and large SA fish. They couldn't get really big tanks where they are, or big acrylic tanks were expensive, but they had all the free freshwater they could pipe into their house from a river they lived on.
So they rigged up a constant heavy stream of water from the river to flow into their tanks, and overflow out a bent elbow and hole in the side of the tank.
So on a 75 gallon tank, they were "dripping" like hundreds of gallons of water a day. They didn't have filters, they didn't care about bio-media, why bother. Just keep water flowing into and out of the tank, their fish thrive. Never do a water change.
I once heard discus breeders do something similar.
I bought a tank from a guy who had a diy insulated barn/shed with atleast 15 huge tanks setup in nearly a circle arrangement around the inside walls of the building. Each tank overflowed into the next until the end of the line where a pump in the lowest tank (maybe 1 foot lower than the first) would pump water back up to the first. When you are in the shed the water is in a continuous current around you. Every tank was packed full of plants and had some small fish. The whole setup was pretty rough but the tanks looked meticulously taken care of and the fish looked amazing. I've never seen such colors out of tetras and rainbowfish. No filters...just a man-made circular stream in a barn.
I was a kid and new to the hobby at the time and didn't ask many questions...just picked up my tank and took off. Wish I would have looked around more.
I was a kid and new to the hobby at the time and didn't ask many questions...just picked up my tank and took off. Wish I would have looked around more.
