I know I'm kinda shooting off in a tangent, but how about taking two pumps and a timer that alternated sequencing on the pumps and then figuring out either the volume needed for alotted time or duration per volume given and created a sort of sped up tide pool. It would be great for biological filtration. Not as efficient as a typical wet/dry but still might be cool. just curious.
The first tank is an internal filter that a guy did.
The second pic is from something that I did similar, but I didn't completely get rid of the HOB. I took a 20g long and put a partition about 3" from on end and then made a tray/ramp that collected the water from the HOB and diverted it to the other end. In the partitioned section, I placed foam in the sections cut for overflow and then put nylon scrubbies in the rest. worked quite well until the fish out grew the setup.

The first tank is an internal filter that a guy did.
The second pic is from something that I did similar, but I didn't completely get rid of the HOB. I took a 20g long and put a partition about 3" from on end and then made a tray/ramp that collected the water from the HOB and diverted it to the other end. In the partitioned section, I placed foam in the sections cut for overflow and then put nylon scrubbies in the rest. worked quite well until the fish out grew the setup.


