Sump Advice for 300gal (Pics Included)
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Eheim's Substract Pro would work like a charm on the lower part of yr sump, but then u'd better be a hi share stock holder for the german company.... 
instead u can try expanded clay balls... i would... and get a serious biological filtration out of that sump.
instead u can try expanded clay balls... i would... and get a serious biological filtration out of that sump.
peninha said:
Hi Peninha, I've never heard about "expanded clay balls" and using them in filtration systems. I tried Googling it, but didn't come up with much.
Would you mind elaborating for us?
JB
Right...quite an interesting design there.....
what i would do is have a set of 2 foams in each tower as a prefilter then leading into a biological media, at the moment I use K1 alot which is great stuff. From there is trickles into the main sump right? in which i would load full of Alfagrog a course biological media, over/under glass divders through some poly wool to polish it off past heaters then into your pumping compartment.
This is a rough idea as I can't see what it's like in the main sump from those pictures, how it's divided up etc.
what i would do is have a set of 2 foams in each tower as a prefilter then leading into a biological media, at the moment I use K1 alot which is great stuff. From there is trickles into the main sump right? in which i would load full of Alfagrog a course biological media, over/under glass divders through some poly wool to polish it off past heaters then into your pumping compartment.
This is a rough idea as I can't see what it's like in the main sump from those pictures, how it's divided up etc.
That is a pretty crazy setup. It seems a little backward though, but if anything the rotating pipes on the top are really cool and you should keep it just because of that. The pot scrubbers would do best in the towers, or at least elevated off of the bottom of the sump portion so that they are not submerged.
I think that the best way to go from there would be like this... Leave the rolls were they are, maybe cut them in half, so that they are 6 in thick. Then fill the bottom half of the tower with the pot scrubbers. Get a plastic lite cover or egg crate, something that will hold the rest of the pot scrubbers and hold them out of the water. That should work pretty well, and if you needed additional filtration you could add a FBF. Then you should be pretty well set. but you might want to have some sort of prefilter before the pipes unless they come off and clean easily.
I think that the best way to go from there would be like this... Leave the rolls were they are, maybe cut them in half, so that they are 6 in thick. Then fill the bottom half of the tower with the pot scrubbers. Get a plastic lite cover or egg crate, something that will hold the rest of the pot scrubbers and hold them out of the water. That should work pretty well, and if you needed additional filtration you could add a FBF. Then you should be pretty well set. but you might want to have some sort of prefilter before the pipes unless they come off and clean easily.
that is one crazy set up for sump, seems like something you would see from overseas with their unique filteration ideas.
anyway you can take a pic of the full side angle for us to see???
anyone heard of bateria house (BH), seems very popular overseas. this sump seems like you can put some of those on the top area and the fill the bottom with pot scrubbers/ceramic rings.
anyway you can take a pic of the full side angle for us to see???
anyone heard of bateria house (BH), seems very popular overseas. this sump seems like you can put some of those on the top area and the fill the bottom with pot scrubbers/ceramic rings.
This sump is actually an old school set up. I used to have a similar set up 14 years ago. It looks cool with the twin towers. The floss rolls are only good for mechanical media but they are a pain to maintain in the rolled form. I like the idea of drip trays lined with a decent mechanical filter media and fill the rest of the tower with mini- bio-pin balls or something. It will be a good mechanical filter and easy to service, the drip trays will provide plenty of aeriation too. The spray bars seem cool but in reality they will get calcium build up and other gunk and will eventually stop spinning. Drip trays are more practical and less maintainance. In the lower sump area I would actually plumb in a fluidized bed biological filter rather than cluttering it with bulky bio media. You can run the fluidized bed off the main return pump in parrallel, it takes very little flow to operate and is very space efficient. You can then utilize the rest of the sump for chemical filter medias and heaters to have a clean un-cluttered looking sump. The baffle dividers in the middle of the sump are for isolating the pump return intake. This way if you put the heaters on either side of the dividers they will always be submerged and not burn up if the water level drops too low in the sump due to evaporation etc.
