here is my homade internal canister filter
here is a really good cheap filter .. its 2 stacked on top of each other
here is a really good cheap filter .. its 2 stacked on top of each other
Filteration for poor ppl
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Oh, geez. This looks like Liam's dead fish store in Chinatown.
They're great filters and good ideas, just bad memories.
I actually built a miniature one with a tupperware sandwich box once. Worked amazingly well. Better than the Whisper filter the tank came with, at least.
They're great filters and good ideas, just bad memories.
I actually built a miniature one with a tupperware sandwich box once. Worked amazingly well. Better than the Whisper filter the tank came with, at least.
ok well i dont have a heater but i can just add warm water at first i heard. And since u said i should take them out of the bowl i put them in my other bathtub in the meantime so they have more room to swim around. But yea i will just empty half then move it.and also who ever asked about a filter , i dont think i need one because i will just keep the tank really clean with a net i bought.
lol wtf
lol wtf
Above the tank or dump filters are cheap and easy.
All you need is:
- A bucket or rubbermaid (with 2-3 holes in the bottom of it)
- Something to hold it above your tank (if it doesn't sit on your tank itself) - I use 1x2" would planks cut to size
- A water pump (in the tank)
- Some tubing to run water from the pump in the tank through a hole in the bottom of the bucket or rubbermaid and over whatever media you fill the bucket / rubbermaid with
- Media / baskets for media - I get plastic trays from the Dollar store and use lava rock, bio balls and pillow stuffing for media
In a nutshell, you pump water from the tank through a hole in the bottom of the rubbermaid over whatever trays of media that you have...and water dumps back into the tank via gravity.
The absolute simplest version of this I've seen involves use of plastic food storage jars with screw off lids on their sides.
Matt
All you need is:
- A bucket or rubbermaid (with 2-3 holes in the bottom of it)
- Something to hold it above your tank (if it doesn't sit on your tank itself) - I use 1x2" would planks cut to size
- A water pump (in the tank)
- Some tubing to run water from the pump in the tank through a hole in the bottom of the bucket or rubbermaid and over whatever media you fill the bucket / rubbermaid with
- Media / baskets for media - I get plastic trays from the Dollar store and use lava rock, bio balls and pillow stuffing for media
In a nutshell, you pump water from the tank through a hole in the bottom of the rubbermaid over whatever trays of media that you have...and water dumps back into the tank via gravity.
The absolute simplest version of this I've seen involves use of plastic food storage jars with screw off lids on their sides.
Matt
knicks791;4155614; said:
Not really.
The pump needed to move water from sump to tank is the $$$ generator.
An above tank filter can use less costly pumps to move the same volume of water.
knicks791;4155614; said:
The great advantage about the overhead filter is you don't need to worry about leaking , All the water will go into the tank anyway
Over tank filter to the extreme.... Fed by 2 780 GPH Quietone 3000 pumps. Want to do this for all my tanks.
