Poor Boy
Thu, 26th Nov 2015, 02:04 PM
for the longest time i ran a crap filtration. i did have a bunch of HOB stuff, but it over crowded my tank and it looked horrible. from there i "upgraded" to a wet/ dry using bio balls, but i forgot to let my chick know that the bag full of bio balls near the couch was not trash so out those went.
as a temporary filter i added a carbon filter in the sump until i could either find more bio balls or get a entirely new system. i tend to get lazy at times so the whole temporary filter turned into a permanent filter. i would change those out every so often and be done with it.
now, thanks to lampkind, i have a beefed up filter system. ill take pics in a bit.
i still have the drain tube filtering into a carbon filter, but from there the water trickles down through half wet/ half dry bio balls. under that i have a bunch of macro algae with a bright LED light. that water is then cycled through my huge (its huge to me) skimmer. i didnt have room under my tank so i did add a bucket next to the sump which houses my return pump. oh, i also placed a filter sock over the return on the skimmer and that water is emptied into the side bucket and is then returned back into the tank.
this weekend i will also be adding sand to the bottom of my sump.
as a temporary filter i added a carbon filter in the sump until i could either find more bio balls or get a entirely new system. i tend to get lazy at times so the whole temporary filter turned into a permanent filter. i would change those out every so often and be done with it.
now, thanks to lampkind, i have a beefed up filter system. ill take pics in a bit.
i still have the drain tube filtering into a carbon filter, but from there the water trickles down through half wet/ half dry bio balls. under that i have a bunch of macro algae with a bright LED light. that water is then cycled through my huge (its huge to me) skimmer. i didnt have room under my tank so i did add a bucket next to the sump which houses my return pump. oh, i also placed a filter sock over the return on the skimmer and that water is emptied into the side bucket and is then returned back into the tank.
this weekend i will also be adding sand to the bottom of my sump.