Help with filtration of 2000 liter tank

[shocker]

Hi! Can smeboddy help me with how to filtrait my 2000 liter tank in a not so expensive way. Drawings would be fine if you have something i could make myself.
Thank you.

 

[crisnen]

yeah would like to have a plan too

 

[hayden]

how many gallons is that? i would suggest a wet dry sump or a berlin sump with lots of bio media i like berlin sumps.

 

[Danh]

Overflows to a sump. Use a smaller tank as the sump tank. Get some kind of a plastic container, a trashcan or something tall like that, full of bio balls, send the water that is overflowing straight to the top of the bio balls with a prefilter (filter pad) on top. The water accumulates in the sump then a pump powering a return back into the tank. See another DIY thread for DIY Durso pipes for overflows. The pipes and the sump are fairly simple.

 

[shocker]

Pictures or drwings would help alot. I dont know how a Berlin sump looks like. I think 2000l is about 550 gallon.

 

[cvermeulen]

Pictures or drwings would help alot. I dont know how a Berlin sump looks like. I think 2000l is about 550 gallon.

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Try the search button, there are sticky threads about this.

 

[amehel0]

its 520 galls.chuck on a 250g sump, 2 fx5's 3 fbf's a diatom filter and a inline charcoal filter with 3-4 canisters and 2 eheims.

 

[Steve_89]

its 520 galls.chuck on a 250g sump, 2 fx5's 3 fbf's a diatom filter and a inline charcoal filter with 3-4 canisters and 2 eheims.

That is ridiculous.... It would be great...but very unrealistic.

I would go with a wet/dry system...around 100-120 gallons with a cannister filter for extra mechanical filtration and circulation.

If you are unfamiliar with wet/dry systems there are plenty of threads here on MFK. Just search "wet/dry" or "sump".

 

[fishdance]

I would use a long low plastic box (or glass if your a handy DIY) placed above the tank with a low standpipe drain in the bottom at one end. Use a powerhead with hose to pump up to the box with a spraybar or drip plate to distribute water over a prefilter then bio-media to create an overhead wet/dry filter. It will drain back into the tank via standpipe. Keep the standpipe water height low so you have more trickle filter volume. The filter can be as big/small or as tall/long as you need and there is no need for a sump or need to drill the tank. Also no need to calculate sump volumes, pump head heights, bulkhead diameters etc and the chance of an overflow is almost zero since the filter is over your tank which is easy to access and clean.

I would use 2 of these for backup since they are so cheap. As with any wet/dry you can choose what media, how much mechanical filtration etc.

 

[shocker]

I allredy done what fishdance said. And this works good. Thank you.