nice & simple overflow you wont notice

[basslover34]

^^^^^
Makes alot more sense to me...

you'd just need to have a larger Sump to account for the extra water in a power outage... But thats exactly what I was thinking

 

[leg89]

Siphon would not start by itself after powerloss though, would it?

no, same principle as i showed you before. the only difference is that there would be more water going iin the sump in case of outage since the last part of the overflow would empty almost completely.

yes that could probably be used as a prefilter, but since you don't want a large space lost, this verflow is supposed to be somewhat not really deep nor large, so the sponge you would put in there (or whatever you'd put) is gonna be small, and so always full of .... you know... you would probably need to change it very regularly.

what i'll probably do, personally,is the design i showed, the biggest dirt parts are supposed to deposite in the bottom of the compartiment, so you clean it when you siphon the aquarium. but i have a good prefilter in my sump (that is almost done, pics to come).

 

[zennzzo]

you'd just need to have a larger Sump to account for the extra water in a power outage... But thats exactly what I was thinking

The reason I found this thread so interesting, is I have been tossing around the idea of doing something like this, but going all the way across the back wall of the tank and integrating the wet/dry filter too.
Maybe I'll start a thread for discussion...

 

[Starting up]

I have seen people place bio balls in this compartment to break the large particles into smaller ones. On the setup i seen they also had the outlet at the bottom of the tank with egg crate to stop the outlet from getting blocked

 

[Lil_Stinker]

I have seen people place bio balls in this compartment to break the large particles into smaller ones. On the setup i seen they also had the outlet at the bottom of the tank with egg crate to stop the outlet from getting blocked

Smaller poop? then more will pass.. but I do like the bio ball idea,,,

You wont actually need a larger sump, cause the water will likely stay lower in the overflow (near the hole)

Siphon would not start by itself after powerloss though, would it?

Its not actually a siphon, its more of an overflow

 

[Starting up]

by the term smaller poop when it is smaller it has a larger surface area for BB to work on it in the nitragan cycle. and no you will not need a larger sump it is as i have said a over/ under flow syster as it overflows at the top and sucks for the bottom as well.

 

[Arturo]

That's pretty cool.

 

[Lil_Stinker]

by the term smaller poop when it is smaller it has a larger surface area for BB to work on it in the nitragan cycle.

better to remove it than to have to convert it..

more surface area the more ammonia is released & the more your BB has to work.. if it is trapped then removed, it needs not be "worked on" at all.

just my thinking, perhaps

 

[unstopable4700]

those diagrams made my head hurt?? too many colors w/o a key, lol

 

[zennzzo]

better to remove it than to have to convert it..

more surface area the more ammonia is released & the more your BB has to work.. if it is trapped then removed, it needs not be "worked on" at all.

just my thinking, perhaps

Mine too...