reverse wet dry. any one ever use on like this

[skillzizzo]

I'll try to track it down - even have some step by step build pics...

I have a big rubbermaid of bio stuff I've accumulated over the years: bio balls, scrubbies, army men, lava pieces, those ceramic combo looking things.

Matt

thats funny man used everything you could find for bio stuff hey. The army men part got me cracking up. Never thought of it that way i guess you can actually use any thing thanks again

 

[Brewster320]

Please excuse the tank sized compared to the turtles, the slider was a rescue that I found in a pond while fishing last summer (I'm from Massachusetts, red eared sliders are not) that I had been trying to rehome for awhile but eventually just decided on keeping her. I will be upgrading them to a much larger stock tank soon though. So this is only temporary.

For materials I used a 5gallon bucket, 1/2" PVC pipes, lava rocks, aquarium silicone, the pump and tubing, and a light diffuser crate. At the bottom where the water comes out of the PVC
My filter's design is a little different than yours but they both work on the same principal and idea. In yours it pumps the water down onto the media where in mine it gets pumped to the bottom and rises up threw the media. At the bottom where the water comes out of the PVC there are two elbows facing different ways so that it makes a current that circulates the water as it rises. In mine it then goes into an over flow and drains back into the tank.
I also have some plants in filter as you can see (bamboo and english ivy), its suppossed to help out with the filtration plus it makes it less of and eye sore although its not needed. You can use real water plants in it if you wanted to but they'd need specialized lighting which the bamboo and ivy don't need. I probably will try some water plants further down the line and see how they do but I don't want to mess with it to much until its completely cycled and running ok.
Here is a quick blue print I drew up.

 

[beex215]

if i was the turtle i would rip open that air duct thing and escape back into that pond you found him in.

 

[Brewster320]

if i was the turtle i would rip open that air duct thing and escape back into that pond you found him in.

I don't usually take animals out of the wild and turn them into pets excpet for a few occassions. Red Ear Sliders aren't native to Massachusetts and I'm 100% certain she was a pet and not part of a feral population when I found her. She's never shown any fear of people(sticks her neck out to get rubbed, begs for food and eats from the fingers since day one ect) and hasn't had any problem with getting used to pellets, ate them on day one also. So I'm pretty sure some person just let her go in the pond and she was there until I came along and found her. I haven't seen another slider in the pond since either.

 

[skillzizzo]

Please excuse the tank sized compared to the turtles, the slider was a rescue that I found in a pond while fishing last summer (I'm from Massachusetts, red eared sliders are not) that I had been trying to rehome for awhile but eventually just decided on keeping her. I will be upgrading them to a much larger stock tank soon though. So this is only temporary.

For materials I used a 5gallon bucket, 1/2" PVC pipes, lava rocks, aquarium silicone, the pump and tubing, and a light diffuser crate. At the bottom where the water comes out of the PVC
My filter's design is a little different than yours but they both work on the same principal and idea. In yours it pumps the water down onto the media where in mine it gets pumped to the bottom and rises up threw the media. At the bottom where the water comes out of the PVC there are two elbows facing different ways so that it makes a current that circulates the water as it rises. In mine it then goes into an over flow and drains back into the tank.
I also have some plants in filter as you can see (bamboo and english ivy), its suppossed to help out with the filtration plus it makes it less of and eye sore although its not needed. You can use real water plants in it if you wanted to but they'd need specialized lighting which the bamboo and ivy don't need. I probably will try some water plants further down the line and see how they do but I don't want to mess with it to much until its completely cycled and running ok.
Here is a quick blue print I drew up.

I like it thanks for the pictures and explanation. It is pretty funny because just last night i was sitting around thinking of a way to take 3 five gallon home depot buckets and plumb them all together to make a sump like this on a bigger scale for a bigger tank. For a larger stock tank i found i plan on using in the near future. The only quistion that i have for you'r specific dising is there isn't any kind of prefilter material to catch the debri first. So how does that work ya know what i mean. Does all the large stuff just collect at the bottom of the bucket or what do you do about that issue again thanks for the pics and the time to explain this.

 

[skillzizzo]

if i was the turtle i would rip open that air duct thing and escape back into that pond you found him in.

Hello,

I am going to say this is the nicest way that i know possible, and i am not trying to be a jerk. But plain and simple this statement is off topic and derailing my thread. And serves no purpose to this thread

 

[Brewster320]

I like it thanks for the pictures and explanation. It is pretty funny because just last night i was sitting around thinking of a way to take 3 five gallon home depot buckets and plumb them all together to make a sump like this on a bigger scale for a bigger tank. For a larger stock tank i found i plan on using in the near future. The only quistion that i have for you'r specific dising is there isn't any kind of prefilter material to catch the debri first. So how does that work ya know what i mean. Does all the large stuff just collect at the bottom of the bucket or what do you do about that issue again thanks for the pics and the time to explain this.

Thanks and no problem. I'd like to see that sump once your finished, sounds impressive. I was actually thinking today about a prefilter. According to the design and the idea of this type of filter organic material will collect and get digested by the beneifical bacteria leaving only inorganic material, like sand, to build up over time at the bottom of the filter(when I say over time I mean like years). Its generally supossed to be self maintaining. However I'm thinking about adding a prefilter as I think it would help out, especially with larger debri that might possibly clog the pump. I just need to figure out how I'm going to do that.