Joined
·
1,039 Posts
Hey Guys,
A guy on craigslist posted a "blue ball filter thingy" for 10 bucks so I went to meet him. I was expecting to get a deal on a sump, but what he had was actually one of those all-in-one reef tanks where the tank and the filter are built in the same unit. Its basically a 3 compartment system:
1. The aquarium part in front where you would keep fish
2. The prefilter section
3. The bioball/sump section.
What I was thinking about doing is putting this under my 75 and using it as a wed/dry filter and refugium. I would have the 75 drain into the #1 portion of this filter tank, which would then drain and filter into these other compartments. The pump would sit in the sump portion and pump back to the 75.
Lastly, there is a hole in the divider between the #1 and #3 sections I would need to plug, this is I think where the output from the sump is intended to go. I'm not sure what I would plug it with.
Am I crazy or would this work?
A guy on craigslist posted a "blue ball filter thingy" for 10 bucks so I went to meet him. I was expecting to get a deal on a sump, but what he had was actually one of those all-in-one reef tanks where the tank and the filter are built in the same unit. Its basically a 3 compartment system:
1. The aquarium part in front where you would keep fish
2. The prefilter section
3. The bioball/sump section.
What I was thinking about doing is putting this under my 75 and using it as a wed/dry filter and refugium. I would have the 75 drain into the #1 portion of this filter tank, which would then drain and filter into these other compartments. The pump would sit in the sump portion and pump back to the 75.
Lastly, there is a hole in the divider between the #1 and #3 sections I would need to plug, this is I think where the output from the sump is intended to go. I'm not sure what I would plug it with.
Am I crazy or would this work?



