I built this filter in about an hour last Sunday. It is made from two 5-gallon buckets.
I started by drilling holes in the bottom of the top bucket.
I then cut about 2" off the bottom off bucket #2 and drilled it full of holes.
The bottom of bucket #2 became the drip tray/pre-filter, the remainder of bucket #2 became the stand for the filter.
I used the lid from a 2-gallon bucket to make the yellow ring that holds the filter pre-filter pad in place.
After filling it with bio-balls, it was done (a lot of people talk about pot scrubbies, but I've got about 20 gallons of bio-balls left over from a reef tank setup).
The water is filtered through an Eheim 2017 (efi-mech and coarse floss) before it goes into the wet-dry. The Eheim is actually powered by my Iwaki. The impeller broke and hasn't been manufactured since 1989, so I cut off the cord and hooked the intake to a valve from my return line.
Anyways, you could make a bunch of these for practically nothing (except the cost of media).
I started by drilling holes in the bottom of the top bucket.
I then cut about 2" off the bottom off bucket #2 and drilled it full of holes.
The bottom of bucket #2 became the drip tray/pre-filter, the remainder of bucket #2 became the stand for the filter.
I used the lid from a 2-gallon bucket to make the yellow ring that holds the filter pre-filter pad in place.
After filling it with bio-balls, it was done (a lot of people talk about pot scrubbies, but I've got about 20 gallons of bio-balls left over from a reef tank setup).
The water is filtered through an Eheim 2017 (efi-mech and coarse floss) before it goes into the wet-dry. The Eheim is actually powered by my Iwaki. The impeller broke and hasn't been manufactured since 1989, so I cut off the cord and hooked the intake to a valve from my return line.
Anyways, you could make a bunch of these for practically nothing (except the cost of media).
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