Sumps - Wet/Dry Filters

These are drawings of a sump that can be used with an ETS skimmer. - [Details]

Peter Z's Fishline (Photo Diagram) - [Details]

This is pretty close to my current sump configuration. My previous sumps were just way to small to handle a volume of about 2,500 gallons per hour. - [Details]

The tank is 24" x 16" high x 14";, The baffles in the middle are 9" high. A glass bar can be mounted just below the top to fit lids if wanted - [Details]

FINS (Photo Diagram) - [Details]

Before I get started on this procedure, I must tell you that the white stuff you see in the box is filter media just to help quieten down the gurgle from the spillway. Do not remove the scratch proof paper from the acrylic until everything is bonded together. Before you attempt any gluing or bonding do some test pieces for practice. - [Details]

This article is a quick attempt to give you an easy-to-build wet/dry filter. In my case this was designed to filter a 145-gallon pre-drilled aquarium with a built-in overflow chamber. - [Details]

This page shows the details of the Wet/Dry itself. The details on the overflow box are shown here. - [Details]

The benefit for building your own can easily be seen. A typical sump system runs easily $200. You can make one just as good if not better for $50. If you still wanted to spend the $200, then you could make yourself a really really good sump system. - [Details]

In this article I will explain how to build sumps, bulkheads, and the Durso Standpipe. - [Details]

The Krib - [Details]

The Krib - [Details]

Here’s a good project for those of you want to try your hand at Acrylic fabrication. FBFs’ are highly efficient biological filters that have enormous bio-load capacities and take up very little space. The mechanics behind the FBFs are quite simple. Sand is the filters’ media, and each particle of sand is the surface which the bacteria attach to. When the sand is in motion (the "fluidized" state) it constantly removes bacteria during it’s collisions with other sand grains, this provides a replenishment of bacteria and the bacteria colony is able to expand very rapidly to increases (or decreases) in bio-load. Since each surface of each grain of sand is available for bacteria, the total surface area in pounds of sand in a FBF is enormous. One pound of sand is approximately able to handle 100 gallons of an average stocked aquarium. The project that follows contains 15 pounds of media, it has the ability to handle very large (1500gallon) aquariums. - [Details]

An almost total DIY project, with the glass tank being brought from a tank builder after providing them with the design of what was required. If was done again would build it from scratch, works out cheaper, are more handy with construction of things like this now and you can get exactly what you want. - [Details]

The first diagram below shows a top view of the whisper 3 wet/dry power filter that hangs on the back of the 30gal. main tank. I don't have an over flow, and I wasn't fond of the idea of using a siphon to supply water to the sump. I used what I had laying around which helped save on cost while at the same time trying to prevent all posibilities of flooding. The pump of the whisper draws water from the main tank into the filter chamber which is separated by a divider that I put in (the red line on the diagram below). The water passes through a fiber cartridge (green lines ) that catches the large particles, and then gravity flows to the sump via 1/2" cpvc. The return line is also 1/2" cpvc which comes in on the other side of the divider (red line), passes through a second fiber filter and flows back into the tank. The blue arrows show the direction of water flow. - [Details]