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flowthrufilterer

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Oct 17, 2010
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I aspire to build a flow through water filtration system that can fit under a 125Gal, but can handle a 210gal or bigger
require no more than basic maintenance once a month (pre and post sponge cleaning, water changing, flow rate checking)
and be capable of handling poth salt and freshwater setups.
I want to focus more on better filtration per pass than on higher flow rates to allow for more passes.
I wish to include inlet and outlet possition in tank as a key part in the filtration to ensure the highest percentage of exch pass is old water
to achieve quality filtration without the clogging and the need to change things more often than monthly I plant to employ:
fluidized beds, protein skimming, ozone treatment, mild insanity, and math.
while unsure of success in the face of very unfavorible odds, I am certain that there is much I can learn.
 
:welcome: to MFK. i wish you luck with all of that and maybe one day you can make my stress of multi tank syndrome be a thing of the past. your success= more tanks lol good luck!
 
Pretty sure a basic sump has most of what you're looking for to be honest.

I understand what you're after, but with all those measures in place you're only going to see perhaps a 10% increase in efficiency.
Trying really specific ways to eliminate dead spots in water flow is easily done without too much math. If the return is at one end of the tank and the overflow is at the other, normal movement will typically get every molecule through the filter at decent enough rates.
Normal sumps will only require a prefilter cleaning, not sure why you'd have a filter after the bio, too.
Fluidized beds are fine, but really only amount to more of what's already there. It's better medicine to just understock than trying like mad to squeeze a tiny bit more biological action out of your filtraton.
Protein skimming sounds like a fine idea. Have at it. :D
Ozone? Like ionizing the water? Please do tell.
 
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35bfbjb.gifwelcome to mfk.. nice to meet you and glad you met up with a couple of great people on mfk already.. have fun with your project...ask questions... always help here.. :D
 
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