More Bio Tower ?s

  • We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo
Joe..... I'm glad it kinda makes sense now......

So.... there is NOT going to be any anerobic bacteria in a tube unless it's atleast 4 feet tall? Assuming taller with higher flow rates? That right there puts a nail in the coffin. I thought I may be able to reduce the height needed if I reduced the diameter........

The 1/2 of the sump I was going to devote to this project is roughly 18x 26.

300 gallon growout tank. 1/2 a dozen juvie rays are going into it.

Open to ideas.........
 
Why not have someone build an acrylic bio tower. I was thinking of getting one about 5ft tall 2ftx2ft. Filled with bio balls. Standing in a sump on top of milk crates. I was going to use this on a 10ftx5ftx40in. pond that I am building.....
 
DB junkie;2707874; said:
You win Zennzzo!!! NO shower heads......LOL
Click to expand...
:headbang2 :headbang2 :headbang2
Now I can tell you why...
I did a wet/dry in a stack of 5 gallon buckets with a modified Watercan nozzle...
It was pump in the tank up to a nozzle then trickle down through the media and back into the tank...I thought it was ingenious...

when it plugged after being my show-off piece for a couple of weeks, I pumped 75 gallons of my 150 onto the floor when I was out in the ocean...

Lucky for me I got home to just ill fish and no deaths...

Small holes suck, period big holes rock...:headbang2
 
ray777;2707992; said:
Why not have someone build an acrylic bio tower. I was thinking of getting one about 5ft tall 2ftx2ft. Filled with bio balls. Standing in a sump on top of milk crates. I was going to use this on a 10ftx5ftx40in. pond that I am building.....
Click to expand...

I had a nice one..... Bout 10 feet tall 2 wide and 1 deep. Cut it into sections that are actually a useable height.

This is what currently filters my pond unchanged since I built it last spring. 2 towers that are about 3 feet tall, sitting in a PVC stand in a rubbermaid 150. Probobly 1500 pot scrubbies and 20+ gallons of Bio Balls poured on top to keep them hunkered down. Beings that my basement is only about 6 feet tall I made them as tall as I could and still able to service the mechanical pads (filter is gravity return so it's allready off the floor a foot and a half.)

Just thought maybe I could improve upon what I allready have...... Just figured that since my towers were so short maybe there was a way to incorporate an IMPROVED filter on the 300 gallon grow out....

Just very hard for me to accept the fact that I built something right and can't make it better. :irked: There is ALWAYS a way to improve something.
 
idea im playing with is a 12" pipe about 8' long..it will be filled with bio balls as i know a guy with 4 32gallon rubber maid trash cans filled with them just need a truck to pick them up.. i snoozed on my cheap piece so now i need to get the guy to order me a new one and it only comes 12' and i cant spare the $$$....
 
My cielings are 8 foot....LOL I'm definetly going to have to go shorter.

Thought you were a completely submerged kinda guy Nic? What gives?

PVC in bigger sizes definetly isn't cheap.... Glad I have a BUNCH left over from old transmission line and bandpass enclosures that epicly failed in my van.
 
Nic;2708505; said:
idea im playing with is a 12" pipe about 8' long..it will be filled with bio balls as i know a guy with 4 32gallon rubber maid trash cans filled with them just need a truck to pick them up.. i snoozed on my cheap piece so now i need to get the guy to order me a new one and it only comes 12' and i cant spare the $$$....
Click to expand...
$19.56 a foot, no minimum, 12" white sch. 40 PVC pipe...
http://www.usplastic.com/catalog/pr...splastic&category_name=13669&product_id=16587
 
Twenty bucks a foot? Ouch.

Here's a cheaper way to get it. Go dig up a sewer line and grab what you want. The City will bring more the following day. I'm not saying to use old sewer line in your fish tanks. You go back the day after and dig up the new stuff. :grinno:

Ok, so maybe that's a bad idea. What you really do is look for some construction where they are using the stuff and talk to one of the guys. Ask for scrap or old stuff that may be useable that they have. It helps to have some beer with you.
 
CHOMPERS;2709097; said:
Twenty bucks a foot? Ouch.

Here's a cheaper way to get it. Go dig up a sewer line and grab what you want. The City will bring more the following day. I'm not saying to use old sewer line in your fish tanks. You go back the day after and dig up the new stuff. :grinno:

Ok, so maybe that's a bad idea. What you really do is look for some construction where they are using the stuff and talk to one of the guys. Ask for scrap or old stuff that may be useable that they have. It helps to have some beer with you.
Click to expand...
Time, Gasoline, Wear and Tear, Beer, DUI, and a Maybe?
20 bux a foot is cheap...
Now the 12" cap??!?, that's expensive...:ROFL::ROFL:
 
I think this is starting to make it pretty obvious why the Jap sumps exist... Not only less space but way less $ in materials.

Beer? Dui? Sounds like a terrible idea. I'd shotgun 2 redbulls slightly before the buttcrack of dawn Sunday morning, jump in the ol incognito Grand Caravan drive out to a fresh trenching site and tell that brother of yours that if he doesn't hurry up with the pipe he will have to walk...

Lol! Seriously though trenching outfits and city dumps are gold mines. I've never paid more than $5 a foot when going that route.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
MonsterFishKeepers.com
Top Bottom