I Was Board, made new sump Idea

[nfored]

What do you think

 

[koop171]

It's a good idea but like chompers said in one of his posts. All bio media does the same thing so using all differnet kinds is more just for looks.


So I would just fill it with one bio media or just get scrubbies

 

[dmopar74]

i dont think the water will flow through the sand.

 

[chesterthehero]

and the first section is going to clog up.. having the fine media there for polishing is going to be wasted by then sending the water through the rest of the media... and the heater section is a huge waste of space..

 

[nfored]

No sand Check.
Smaller heater area and bigger pump area Check.
And loose The micron Filter.

But what do you think about the bio wheels? I wanted it to work like the tidepool.

 

[Alan Russell]

I think I can't read much of that and I have pretty good eyes.

 

[X24]

Go with no sand.

Put mech. filtration from coarsest to the finest polishing pad right before the bio-medium (keeps crap out of the bio-media). Go ahead and mix your bio-media as different types of bacteria prefure to inhabit different surface's, so the bacteria that are generally found on scrubbies aren't necessarily the same kind that are predominantly on a sintered glass media.

Instead of the heater area, just use that as the pump area and just place the heaters in there with them. If you want a deep sand bed for presumably nitrate removal, i doubt its effectiveness will really be all that noticable, but just get a deep narow plastic piece of tupperware or something of the type and fill it full of sand up to 1" from the top and place it in your heater/pump part of the sump.

work out some kinks and it doesn't look like a bad setup at all.

 

[chesterthehero]

bio wheels are cute and if you want to build a rig to hold them go for it... sorta pointless IMO but its not going to hurt anything...