DIY canister filter

bamboox

bamboox

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a ice bucket, a under-water water pump, with a lot of bio-max rings. it's not pretty, but it gets the work done.

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here are more pics.
total cost: around $45
what do u think about this?

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Not bad! How do you have the pump (what brand is it?) situated in the bucket? What size is the bucket and what's the flow rate? I assume its a bio only filter so you don't need a high flow rate.
Cool!
 
beviking said:
Not bad! How do you have the pump (what brand is it?) situated in the bucket? What size is the bucket and what's the flow rate? I assume its a bio only filter so you don't need a high flow rate.
Cool!
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I used "Top Fin Pond Water Pumps", it's 250GPH, whatever it means (I think it means 250 gallon per hour). and it's a 2 gallon cooler. It's bio plus physical filter, but mainly for bio filtering.
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I put this pump at the bottom of the bucket, then put some bio rings and filters on top of it, then connected the output to water-out pipe of the bucket. water coming in from the top of the bucket, throught filters, then bio-rings, then to the pump, and got pumped out from the bottom of the bucket.
 
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Raskolnikov said:
Looks nice. Have any pictures of the inside?
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sorry, didn't take any pic of inside, but it's quite simple, just 3 layers inside, top layer is physical filter, middle layer for bio-rings, bottom layer, water pump. then connect the output of the water pump to the pipe connect to outside of the bucket.
 
how does i/o in the tank look ? err.. hard to tell, i guess it not bad, once it sucked one of my 3.5 inches long electric blue into its 3/4 inch pipe (sad...) then i nailed some plastic needle across the pipe opening to prevent it from happening again.
 
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