I am going to set up a saltwater tank. Right now I have a wet/dry with 2 1300 gph pumps. So its pumping 2600 gph through the wet dry pr. hr. I want to run pvc pipes to the basement and have all my filtration in the basement instead of under the tank. Does anyone have any ideas on what to do for the filtration. I want to use the wet/dry im using now on another set up. I was thinking of using 55 gal plastic drums somehow for a filtation setup. I have tons of room and I wont have any noise to listen to. Does anyone have any ideas. I like to have more filtraion then I ever would need. Thats a problem I have. Any ideas??? Im not necacarilly set on the 55 gal plastic drum idea so im open to any ideas??? Thanks, Dave.
Filtration ideas for 210??? PLEASE HELP
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This is something I'm looking at doing eventually too, though I'm freshwater. You will have to get a high head pressure pump, magdrive (I think) and Iwaki make high head pumps among others, most normal aquarium pumps won't have the head pressure you will need to pump water up a floor.
Filtration wise the sky's the limit, you have room so go big! Use gravity to your advantage and use tall filter towers to make the most of the water coming from the tank, you could set up lights and grow trays for algae scrubbers. More water volume is better and especially so for marine setups, you could have 500gal or more water volume in the basement to act as a big buffer for the upstairs tank, all depends on how crazy you want to get
Filtration wise the sky's the limit, you have room so go big! Use gravity to your advantage and use tall filter towers to make the most of the water coming from the tank, you could set up lights and grow trays for algae scrubbers. More water volume is better and especially so for marine setups, you could have 500gal or more water volume in the basement to act as a big buffer for the upstairs tank, all depends on how crazy you want to get
Im not to worried about the pump. I was thinking of using a pond pump. There are several defferant pumps I have in mind. The filtration part is were Im having problems coming up wth any ideas.
Right now I have the tank rumming freshwater. But im in the process of getting at least a 210 + tank for the saltwater setup. I just am not sure of how I want to set it up in the basement. Any Ideas???????????
Right now I have the tank rumming freshwater. But im in the process of getting at least a 210 + tank for the saltwater setup. I just am not sure of how I want to set it up in the basement. Any Ideas???????????