WET DRY with powerhead?
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Your problem will be that powerheads aren't meant to deal with any head at all and your wet/dry will probably at least a couple of feet below your tank. It could be as small aproblem as a greatly reduced GPH but it worst case would be blowing out your pump and potentially create a dangerouse situation.
Might work if you do something like this: http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=182129.
Yeah, but you still have to pump the water up there. Nothing gets solved, your still using a powerhead against a couple feet of head.
I had my old W/D set up with a power head, for a good 12months with no problem. my current set-up is with a 4000lph fountain pump into a 5 gal bucket. here is some old ones i have made with a 1200lph powerhead.
That second one is basically the one i am using now. but its suspended by the wall. and the intake has been hard plumbed. with a 4000lph pump and the outake is dumped straight out of the bottom
please excuse the very dirty wall. we had just moved in and had not painted it
That second one is basically the one i am using now. but its suspended by the wall. and the intake has been hard plumbed. with a 4000lph pump and the outake is dumped straight out of the bottom
please excuse the very dirty wall. we had just moved in and had not painted it
I run my undertank wet/dry with an AquaClear Model 70 powerhead. It's on a 180 gallon tank with a 7 gallon biochamber and it pumps up to almost 55" with no problem. I cut off the "air inlet" and put a piece of tygon tubing over the resulting hole.
While it doesn't do the huge turnover many people seem to favor, I've checked it's flow rate and it's running about 360gph which turns my tank over 2 times an hour which is plenty of flow for a trickle filter. It's not my only filter though but it is my primary biological filter.
While it doesn't do the huge turnover many people seem to favor, I've checked it's flow rate and it's running about 360gph which turns my tank over 2 times an hour which is plenty of flow for a trickle filter. It's not my only filter though but it is my primary biological filter.