IDEA : Japanese Style Filtration...

[manbai]

wow...i hv to say that would be an awesome filtration! thnx for the idea

 

[Dr Joe]

im going to do similar type of setup... except i will add air stone on the bottom and blow air up...

What size?

 

[neoprodigy]

What size?

my sump will be a rubbermaid stock tub setup either a 100gallon ([FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular]52"L x 31"W x 25"H)[/FONT] or 150gallon ([FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular]58"L x 39"W x 25"H)[/FONT]

 

[polish]

This doesn't seem that new to me, I mean all my canister filters and HOB filters have the media fully submerged. How is this different other than using a sump style setup?

 

[neoprodigy]

This doesn't seem that new to me, I mean all my canister filters and HOB filters have the media fully submerged. How is this different other than using a sump style setup?

yes.. filtration is actually an old old idea... its the same concept as gravel is a medium of media also. the concept is to show that you dont need wet/dry on the media.. you can just pack the media...

 

[polish]

Oh ok, I just thought I was missing something.

 

[Merbeast]

MilitantPotato,

Even confusion runs amuck in my brain...Did you mean what I read or what you said?

He means what he said. Emersed means "risen out of water". Emersed filter media is wet, but not submersed (under water). Wet but not submersed media has more O2 available to it than submersed media does.

i believe the potato got his facts scrambled....

sounds like lots of O2 in air and very little in water and hence bio media exposed to the atmosphere would have lots more O2... no ???

That is exactly what MilitantPotato said.

 

[Merbeast]

yes.. filtration is actually an old old idea... its the same concept as gravel is a medium of media also. the concept is to show that you dont need wet/dry on the media.. you can just pack the media...

Barring the need for a more compact unit, what would the advantage be to switching to fully submersed media? If you have room for a 100 gallon stock tank, why not make it a wet/dry? You will save money on the filter media as you can use less to do more. Just wondering.

 

[neoprodigy]

Barring the need for a more compact unit, what would the advantage be to switching to fully submersed media? If you have room for a 100 gallon stock tank, why not make it a wet/dry? You will save money on the filter media as you can use less to do more. Just wondering.

the more media .. the more you can stock your tank...

 

[ozz465]

the more media .. the more you can stock your tank...

Agreed , thinking about doing this myself , eventually my filter would rivel my tanks capacity , so ill pack in the fish