My wet/dry....how it works. (nsf56k)

[rallysman]

I've had several people ask me about how my filter is setup and how it works so I'm making this to show how simple it is.

Here is the overflow. Just as simple as it looks...PVC

This is right off of the overflow inside the tank. I placed a valve in this tube to shut the flow off to the filter if i needed to (for service) or to slow the flow if needed.

These pix show where the overflow goes into the stand and into the filter...pretty self explanitory.

Into the bioball chambers.....There is a hole drilled over each box and a drip plate spreads it out over the bioballs. (the white stuff is the prefilter) The second pic is the second chamber, and that end of the pvc tube is capped.

The outlet to the pump is shown here.

That connects to the pump (the valve again is for servicing and flow control before and after the pump, incase the pump was to fail i could turn water off on both ends of it.) sorry about the cat

the pipe then runs outside of the stand and tank just like the overflow and then returns on the opposite side This is breif so if there are any questions just ask.

finished product:

 

[DeLgAdO]

ever get a back siphon if theres a power outage?

very nice system rally

 

[rallysman]

The sump is so big that it wont fill it if there is an outage. I've thought about trying to prevent it but there really is no point lol

 

[rallysb1tch]

Is the cat necessary for the filter to work?

 

[rallysman]

if it gets wet we know we have a problem

 

[Nic]

thank you rally answered my questions

 

[ogre929]

That's pretty sweet. I had a sump on my salt system that was not quite big enough, but just barely if there was a power outage. the water would fill all the way up to the top of the sump and stop. It was coming from two seperate tanks. both custom sized 50 or so gal tanks as well as two surge devices. Needless to say, there was some experimenting to try to get it to the point where we could turn off both tanks and no water would overflow.

 

[Cyclop3000]

I wish everybody that has a wet/dry would do this and explain their setup

 

[rayman45]

personaly i would like my sump filled up more so i can grow out fish

 

[mjime714]

Sweet setup! I was also thinking of a check valve so I dont get back flow from the exhaust side incase of an outage, but just like you, I think the sump is big enough to hold the overflow.

Does the second bio chamber get an equal amount of flow as the first?