i want to make my own filter but dont know how

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catinya

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i am fairly handy person,and has hoping some one has be able to find a good site that explaine the main parts for a do it your self freshwater filter. And is it possible to create a large one ,like a 5 gal bucket, would that make a abundent supple of benificial bacteria. also i have a heavily planted tank and am having a hard time vacuuming the waste out any seggestions.
sorry for the run ons

30 gal long tank
5 male 5 feamale very fertile fancy guppies
3 cories
1 placo
1 frog that never needs to get out of the water

filter, emporer 280, w/ second media ammo-chips
 
your DIY filter kind of made me think about using my gravel vac (which uses a pumping action under the water to get the suction going. Therefore it will keep pumping water unless you take it out of the water and it loses pressure. my idea was to get like 2 for suction into the bin, and 2 for sucking the water back into the tank from the bin, therefore the water remains contant. but this is as primative an idea as they come and really just something i thought of.

when gravel vaccing with plants in the tank, just try to get to as many areas around the plants as you can. IMO, the waste that collects around the base of the plant near their roots is beneficial to them.
 
you could make your own wet/dry sump ..but you would need a submersible pump and some biomedia.

but by the time you got done with it you could purchase a HOB filter.
 
It would not work with just siphons, you would need a pump to get the water back into the tank.
 
No matter what you do, you're going to need some sort of pump to move water back and forth. I have built many good-sized filtration units. You can get a pond pump for about 60 bucks. I have a turtle in a 5' kiddie pool, with a filter made out of a 5gal bucket filled with lava rock. The bucket sits in the pool, so I don't have to worry about drips. I also made a sump and w/d filter, following instructions here: http://cichlid-forum.com/articles/diy_wet_dry.php

You just have to get creative. My w/d cost way less than what you could buy for comparable filtration.
 
sploke said:
You just have to get creative. My w/d cost way less than what you could buy for comparable filtration.
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Exactly.

Study wet/dry filters and how they actually work, and the possibilities are endless. I'm making one out of a 55 as we speak that is really easy. I'll put up a thread when I'm finished with it.
 
I'd go with a wet/dry filter. Not only are they easy to make but of all the filters i've had this little mechanical wonder has been the most efficient.
 
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