Ok once and for all. What do you think would be the best filtration option for my 130gal fully planted discus tank? I would like to inject C02 somewhere down the road as well.
Best filtration for my tank? (Once & for all)
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dude,
Build your own sump!!! less expensive in the long wrong....h+ll, less expensive short term as well. Adds MANY more gallons of water overall. you can choose how much Bio and mech filtration. The best thing out there. I would get it, but my tank is glass and im not so sure about that syphon.oh..no PRIMING!!!
Build your own sump!!! less expensive in the long wrong....h+ll, less expensive short term as well. Adds MANY more gallons of water overall. you can choose how much Bio and mech filtration. The best thing out there. I would get it, but my tank is glass and im not so sure about that syphon.oh..no PRIMING!!!
Crab, crab, crab....A sump is not a filter, it is a container, a tank, a vessel of some sort attached such that the water exchanges between the display and the sump.
A sump may be used to house many or any type of filter - W/D, canister, DSB, plenum, veggie, even UG - whatever. Or a sump may only be a refugium, or only a means to increase the water volume in the system.
If you mean W/D, say so.
A sump may be used to house many or any type of filter - W/D, canister, DSB, plenum, veggie, even UG - whatever. Or a sump may only be a refugium, or only a means to increase the water volume in the system.
If you mean W/D, say so.
You can use it as a filter though. Add a mech filter on the entrance to the syphon and you can add bioballs or whatever in the inside of the sump. You can use a plastic (food safe) container and add 40 gallon of water to that, inside, you can add the bioballs for bio filtration. you can also add a heater or bubble wall or whatever you like. But adding this setup will give your tank an additoinal 40 gallons!!! while a canistor will hold only about 2 gallons. I would use a emperor 400 with the sump.
JBW - as I said, it can be used as a filter , or to house filters, but a sump is not a filter, it is a sump. If it is used for filtration, that must be specified, otherwise no informaton is transmitted.
seeing as you want to have a pretty heavily planted tank (why else would you want c02) your main thing you want to accomplish is mechanical filtration.
most canisters are likely going to be used as mostly bio-filtration, unless you want to open it up once a week.
Id say your best soultion would be to setup a sump and setup a sort of wet/dry filter but with mostly mechanical media. You can then add a section to the sump filled with bio media if you choose.
most canisters are likely going to be used as mostly bio-filtration, unless you want to open it up once a week.
Id say your best soultion would be to setup a sump and setup a sort of wet/dry filter but with mostly mechanical media. You can then add a section to the sump filled with bio media if you choose.
Well I have been reseaching this a far bit, and when someone says sump they are usulay refring to a filter of somesort.
This is what I am thinking for the Sump, use a 72gal tank have half of it filled with bio balls, and make a tower out of the water fill it with bio balls for wet/dry filtration. And put a layer of Lava rock on the bottom of the other half of the tank were the pump and heaters are. The pump I am looking at works at 850gph.
This is what I am thinking for the Sump, use a 72gal tank have half of it filled with bio balls, and make a tower out of the water fill it with bio balls for wet/dry filtration. And put a layer of Lava rock on the bottom of the other half of the tank were the pump and heaters are. The pump I am looking at works at 850gph.