Metal monster 3k
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Took a second job recently as equipment/livestock guy at a coral wholesale buisness so i been busy out in the "real world" lately as well as on the home front as a fish basement dweller...soon to come pay checks will help fund the rest of this 3k build so all is in the works now...still have 9 other setups running over 4,000gal keeping me occupied also
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Well I just sat through and read all of this thread. Loving the build and excited to see the finished product. How hard was the pool to maintain? I currently have a albino channel cat(really small) in a 45g which is obviously waaaaayyyyyy to small for when this guy gets big and thinking of doing a small pool set up while I build a monster pond.
I ran the 12' 1700gal pool temporary for 2-3 yrs...served me very well, never had any problems with it. It ran on hommade overhead filters/socks and only a 2200gh pump. Def. A good investment imo lol
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Awesome. It wont be for awhile. He is going into a 125 soon and then I will be saving to build my dream tank. I might have to message you for some advice at that point lol. BTW I love your big cats.
wednesday13 Insane big Silver Arowana ! 
I wanted to carresing that big one 
How big is she ?
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Re. the settling tank within the filter:
I love this idea. We've recently done a pond with a 2chamber flow-through filter. Chamber 1 is (was) just chunk home-made charcoal. Chamber 2 was is course, then finer mattress sponge. The sponge does not need maintenance... ever. However, the charcoal sank and filled up with crud, even with the course (thumb to fist size) charcoal, and we kept having to dial down the pump as gravity wasn't keeping up. SO- course, settlement, bacterial flock and copious beasties can do the trick and keep your water clear for 3months before you have to deal with it. Details: pond is overplanted 800gal with most of it big & shallow at 7" deep. Sump is 3'x2'x2, with the 3' partitioned into the two chambers (thus each is 18"x2x2). Stock is just fancy goldfish, african & chromide cichlids, rainbowfish, danios & guppies.
Back to my question, then: how about using a round chamber, rotational inflow for centrifugal forces to aid settlement? Has anybody used/tried?
I love this idea. We've recently done a pond with a 2chamber flow-through filter. Chamber 1 is (was) just chunk home-made charcoal. Chamber 2 was is course, then finer mattress sponge. The sponge does not need maintenance... ever. However, the charcoal sank and filled up with crud, even with the course (thumb to fist size) charcoal, and we kept having to dial down the pump as gravity wasn't keeping up. SO- course, settlement, bacterial flock and copious beasties can do the trick and keep your water clear for 3months before you have to deal with it. Details: pond is overplanted 800gal with most of it big & shallow at 7" deep. Sump is 3'x2'x2, with the 3' partitioned into the two chambers (thus each is 18"x2x2). Stock is just fancy goldfish, african & chromide cichlids, rainbowfish, danios & guppies.
Back to my question, then: how about using a round chamber, rotational inflow for centrifugal forces to aid settlement? Has anybody used/tried?
Furthermore, the neutrally buoyant and tiny solids in a large (settling) tank may be dealt with via scuds, ostrcacods, clams, snails and other itty-bitty-beasties, particularly if you've got a little bit of substrate, which may just be a few plant-roots, moss or pot-scrubbers... or charcoal. Be careful adding guppies/fish to such a system as they will rapidly consume any and all such wee-fauna. You're building an ecosystem based on detrital and bacterial foods.
Next time you go dip-netting in the local pond (don't worry about being 26... I'm 43 and my wife gives me similar teasing as I do same on snorkel and/or SCUBA) bring home a jug of water with a little bit of mud, leaves etc. Add that directly to your sump and watch the amount of crud in your filters, your cleaning needs and your water parameters. You can actually collect said mud/water/stuff now, even if the pond is frozen or even dry. Anything that gets through the filter goes back into the tank and becomes fish-food... assuming there are mouths small enough in your stock.
Next time you go dip-netting in the local pond (don't worry about being 26... I'm 43 and my wife gives me similar teasing as I do same on snorkel and/or SCUBA) bring home a jug of water with a little bit of mud, leaves etc. Add that directly to your sump and watch the amount of crud in your filters, your cleaning needs and your water parameters. You can actually collect said mud/water/stuff now, even if the pond is frozen or even dry. Anything that gets through the filter goes back into the tank and becomes fish-food... assuming there are mouths small enough in your stock.