DIY Indoor pond with rubbermaid stock tank

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I'd like to setup an indoor pond to house a pair of stingrays in. I can get the 300 gallon rubbermaid stock tank locally for about $200 http://www.tractorsupply.com/livest...sories/stock-tanks/stock-tank-300-gal-2229935 I plan on putting it in the corner of the living room, and using some stone to hide that it's just a black stock tank. I think with some nice stone, and a few plants it can become an amazing indoor pond =]I'm just confused as to what would be the best method to filter this. I've debated an fx5 or 2 of them, but then I would have hoses for the intakes and outputs coming up over the edges. Which I suppose would possibly be hidden by the stone depending on how high I stack the stones.Wodnering if anyone could offer any suggestions/opinions for filtration on this thing. It says on the description of the website that the tank has a drain, but I'm not sure of what height it's located.
 
i believe the drain is in the side just about to the bottom. i've never personally had one, but always heard good things. i've even seen them in a shop that had ac110's hanging onto the sides.
 
i have 3 of these running in my garage right now :) i use rena canisters on two of them and i have a homemade 5gal bucket filter on the other honestly the 5 gal bucket filter works the best and was half the price of the canisters. i also change 50% of the water weekly though and they are always clean.
 
I say go DIY with 4" PVC pipe. I figured it out about a month ago, and all of the fittings and glue and junk cost about $20.
 
wednesday13;3820726; said:
i have 3 of these running in my garage right now :) i use rena canisters on two of them and i have a homemade 5gal bucket filter on the other honestly the 5 gal bucket filter works the best and was half the price of the canisters. i also change 50% of the water weekly though and they are always clean.
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Are you using the drain built into the stock tank to overflow into your DIY filter?
 
I've thought about doing the same thing with the rubbermaid stock tank, except with a 100 gal, and prob just use a Magnum 350 for it.
 
I use fx5s and sponge filters in my stock tank. I would rather a sump or some drip system but i have never tried. My method is always just throw a pair of fx5s at it
 
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