oregonian thats a good ghetto one, bet it works well good idea....also i was going threw photobucket and found some old diy's that might belong here lol
50 gal sump
Needless to say its not too much of an eyesore and it worked great, but the kicker is when its time to change the media its kind of hard to open the tray when they are 12 inch long each and they face each other with only 6 inchs of inbetween room, so it lasted awhile and got very few media changes, only reason i made new one cause it was so damn hard to change i had to dissasemable one tupperware piece at a time..
so you ever have that problem when you go to feed your fish...put the food in and it goes right to the overflow, just what i wanted to do is feed my filters....well i have seen the feeding rings at various places and always thought they were too small not big enough for a few big fish to eat out of, well i came up with this idea lol
its a tupperware bowl
lol it is black in a couple of spots cause i had to warm it up with a lighter to bend it but once i got it level it worked great if you have goldfish, i don't have anything huge but when the oscar came up for feeding time everything stayed in the ring untill they started hitting the top and created a wave effect and knocked all the food out, it could be fixed by haveing taller edges and would have looked better painted but i just moved the overflow instead lol
oh yea this is when you get them nasty micro bubbles from a drip plate or whatever causes it..my trickle filter was causeing lots of micro bubbles to be thrown back into the tank from the sump's pump so i siliconed a box together and stuffed a pad before the pump, needless to say it worked very well and stayed in till setup was takin down
this was on my first setup for my return it had 1 inch ID tubeing siliconed into a 15in long 1in wide pvc pipe, silicone did hold good i was suprised and it did work well, but i replaced it with a standard hang on the back adjustable return
oh yea and this is before the 2nd container was added on the 50 sump
sorry for the large pics but it is what it was saved as in photobucket hope you enjoy lol.
50 gal sump
Needless to say its not too much of an eyesore and it worked great, but the kicker is when its time to change the media its kind of hard to open the tray when they are 12 inch long each and they face each other with only 6 inchs of inbetween room, so it lasted awhile and got very few media changes, only reason i made new one cause it was so damn hard to change i had to dissasemable one tupperware piece at a time..
so you ever have that problem when you go to feed your fish...put the food in and it goes right to the overflow, just what i wanted to do is feed my filters....well i have seen the feeding rings at various places and always thought they were too small not big enough for a few big fish to eat out of, well i came up with this idea lol
its a tupperware bowl
lol it is black in a couple of spots cause i had to warm it up with a lighter to bend it but once i got it level it worked great if you have goldfish, i don't have anything huge but when the oscar came up for feeding time everything stayed in the ring untill they started hitting the top and created a wave effect and knocked all the food out, it could be fixed by haveing taller edges and would have looked better painted but i just moved the overflow instead lol
oh yea this is when you get them nasty micro bubbles from a drip plate or whatever causes it..my trickle filter was causeing lots of micro bubbles to be thrown back into the tank from the sump's pump so i siliconed a box together and stuffed a pad before the pump, needless to say it worked very well and stayed in till setup was takin down
this was on my first setup for my return it had 1 inch ID tubeing siliconed into a 15in long 1in wide pvc pipe, silicone did hold good i was suprised and it did work well, but i replaced it with a standard hang on the back adjustable return
oh yea and this is before the 2nd container was added on the 50 sump
sorry for the large pics but it is what it was saved as in photobucket hope you enjoy lol.
but that tupperware feeding ring is awesome
