Post Your Bucket Filters!

[Dan F]

Five-gallon buckets are cheap or free and can be used to make some of the most cost effective DIY filters.

I have two bucket filters going right now.

The first is a wet/dry full of bioballs with a prefilter in the drip plate.

The second is a mechanical filter for the return. It has a no-bypass filter pad on the bottom (shown) and a tray full of filter floss (not shown) in the top chamber.

I'm sure there are some pretty great designs out there. Let's see what you have built!

 

[Gr8KarmaSF]

Nice D

 

[Camshaft Ramrod]

I get horrible flashbacks when I see holes in plastic...




edit/ and not because of a bad experience with a defective "raincoat" BTW......

 

[wednesday13]

Here's mine . Works with a 550 gph pump. Water is sucked through the top of the bucket through filter pads and pot scrubbies and has a return to the surface. The white foam is the end of the return, it stops the splashing.

 

[koidaddy]

I am experementing with this canister type setup. Water is pulled through the canister to seal when running. If pump shuts off the bucket leaks at the lid(lid only has on 1 turn). I just ordered a 9 gallon beer fermenter that has a pretty good lid.
Pump is a pondmaster 1800.
Wish me luck.

 

[Dan F]

Nice D

Thanks, J!

I get horrible flashbacks when I see holes in plastic...


edit/ and not because of a bad experience with a defective "raincoat" BTW......

How do you reply to one of Camshaft's posts?

Here's mine . Works with a 550 gph pump. Water is sucked through the top of the bucket through filter pads and pot scrubbies and has a return to the surface. The white foam is the end of the return, it stops the splashing.

Very nice. You are really going for it - two 300 Rubbermaid ponds in your house! Or is that a shop?

I am experementing with this canister type setup. Water is pulled through the canister to seal when running. If pump shuts off the bucket leaks at the lid(lid only has on 1 turn). I just ordered a 9 gallon beer fermenter that has a pretty good lid.
Pump is a pondmaster 1800.
Wish me luck.

Excellent - just the sort of experiment I was hoping to see! Update us when the new bucket is installed.

 

[Camshaft Ramrod]

How do you reply to one of Camshaft's posts?

lol, Sorry Dan, What I should have said was, Drilling a hundred tiny holes in plastic sucks. Was it as frustrating for you as I always found it?

 

[Dan F]

lol, Sorry Dan, What I should have said was, Drilling a hundred tiny holes in plastic sucks. Was it as frustrating for you as I always found it?

Actually I kind of like it, I must have a bit of O.C.D.. You know it is time to take a break when the drill gets hot or your arm goes numb...

 

[Dan F]

Nobody else? I was hoping to see some ten-bucket Monster-Filter or crazy Bucket-BioTower...

 

[RBE17]

Nobody else? I was hoping to see some ten-bucket Monster-Filter or crazy Bucket-BioTower...

I'll have to snap a picture of my milk crate bio tower packed full of scrubbies and bio balls. It's total ghetto.