Will this over the tank sump design work?

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I've found carbon pretty unnecessary tho, I haven't used any in over a year on any of my tanks I feel the space is better spent on bio. .....especially if that set up works the way it should basically you'd end up with a double stacked trickle wet/dry which Definitely holds the potential for an immense amount of bb

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The question though is it enough bio to sustain such a stock over the next couple of years? I mean basically one stack can hold approximately 20 gallons so if I use even just 10 of those on bio media that to me seems pretty significant on such a small tank? If I doubled that and did two stacks that seems like that would have to sustain the stock? Maybe I am wrong and there is something that I'm missing?


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I would imagine you should be in pretty good shape I have my sump that's only 40-45 gallons with a drip tray trickle onto about a 5 gallon bucket of bio balls, then the return chamber stuffed with assorted bio media and the fx5 with nothing but ceramic rings......so maybe 30-35 gallons of water space is bio all that keeps my 375 crystal clear and clean, so I would think 10-15 gallons worth of bio on your 220 should do pretty well.......even as they all grow

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Hmmm trying to grasp this whole thing is a little difficult there are just so many designs of things that I could do and I just want to do as little weight as high of an amount of bio as I possibly can... If anyone as any recommendations Im completely open to here them... No normal sump is going to work so anything above the tank with little weight Im open to!


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I use one of those rectangular plastic planter things that holds maybe a gallon or two and that runs my 75g no problems. I have two 10"+ bichirs, a 8" Florida gar and a 7" synodontis catfish. My parameters are always damn near perfect. Sometimes my nitrates creep up.


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Rachel.Cody said:
I use one of those rectangular plastic planter things that holds maybe a gallon or two and that runs my 75g no problems. I have two 10"+ bichirs, a 8" Florida gar and a 7" synodontis catfish. My parameters are always damn near perfect. Sometimes my nitrates creep up.


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Hmmm I mean my stock is going to be pretty heavy and I would say that I have about 10 gallons of bio and I think that if I add another say 20-30 gallons of bio it should be pretty significant I would assume? I think I am going to go with a simpler design and run the outflows from my canisters right into the top of a 30 gallon storage container filled with loofahs. This should cut weight and actually give me 10 gallons more bio then the shelves would. Then I would simply have 1.5" holes drilled in the container with tube running into the top of my aquarium. Any more ideas critiques out there? I'm all ears to new ideas!


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Keister said:
Hmmm I mean my stock is going to be pretty heavy and I would say that I have about 10 gallons of bio and I think that if I add another say 20-30 gallons of bio it should be pretty significant I would assume? I think I am going to go with a simpler design and run the outflows from my canisters right into the top of a 30 gallon storage container filled with loofahs. This should cut weight and actually give me 10 gallons more bio then the shelves would. Then I would simply have 1.5" holes drilled in the container with tube running into the top of my aquarium. Any more ideas critiques out there? I'm all ears to new ideas!


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That sounds like a good design to me but I'm no expert lol. I want to make a bigger one but I barely have any room on top of the tank. My sump has two filter pads from the HOB on my other 75g, filter floss, plant trimmings and a banana plant, half of a sponge filter, ceramic ball media, biozorb carbon bag, and two pantyhose things with small pieces of cut up tubing and bottle caps for a cheap diy media lol. It's hard to tell in the pic but there's a lot going on in there


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