What Media to use in Wet/Dry????????????????????????????????

[tonymofo]

Here's some pics of a wet/dry I just picked up craigslist.

What would be the best media to use and the best places to put the media in my new wet/dry.

I just threw some bioballs in there just to see how they look in there, let me know if they should go somewhere else

Thanks for any Ideas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[cvermeulen]

weird ass looking w/d

 

[prophets]

Not much room for biomedia is there? I'd go with scrubbies...spongy type pads, a bag or two of some lava rock or glass rings.

Good luck.

 

[Wolf3101]

Thats more of a refugium type system designed to use with live sand. In general they are a lot more complicated...flow wise...than a simple W/D sump. Rally can probubly tell you a lot more about it than I can.

 

[Tongue33]

weird ass looking w/d

Salt set up Like wolf said mroe of a refugium.

Freshwater is much simpler My opinion

 

[prophets]

Yet it can still be used...just requires a little bit of creativity and ingenuity.

 

[Tongue33]

Agreed.. you can still change the flow rate

 

[Wolf3101]

Might be a better idea to work out an exchange deal with a reef keeper. You could probubly come away with the bio-media and even a return pump...That brand is highly thaugh of and its very well built/ It would be a shame to chop it up just to use as a sump.

Post the pics in the salt water section and see whos intrested...

 

[Dr Joe]

Here's some pics of a wet/dry I just picked up craigslist.

What would be the best media to use and the best places to put the media in my new wet/dry.

I just threw some bioballs in there just to see how they look in there, let me know if they should go somewhere else

Thanks for any Ideas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nice find.

First rule...when you get a good deal you gotta tell us how much .

Ok, put a filter sock where the bio-balls are, place the bio-balls (or scrubbies or both) under it.

Second chamber (from left) scrubbies / plants (if you want to light it).

Third chamber put the egg crate in and open cell sponge on top.

Skinny chamber is for bubble elimination (S/W tanks)

Last chamber holds the return pump.

Now please tell me that pump set-up in the backgroung of the third pic isn't the return pump.

It's a start anyway .

Dr Joe

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[Nic]

I would pretty much fill it with bags of ceramic rings and eheim substrat pro... use filter socks and would work good... best bet would be to trade for a wet/dry though