sump

Hello guys! Im new. Im starting a 75 gallon cichlid tank. All I have is the tank. starting from scratch after my turtle tank. I need all the advice I can get. Please feel free to school me, I actually want it. I also need just about everything... Should I attend the BFD before buying things?

What would be the best filter for my 125 planted tank a wet/dry or a sump to just filter the water.

So, as many of you have seen in my fishroom (and other people's fishrooms)....I drain my tanks to a Rubbermaid bin under the tanks and use a sump pump to send it to a utility sink when the bin is full. I'd like my sump pump to not allow the bin to fill quite so full before turning on, so I'm...

Wanted to know what is the minimum sump tank size that could handle the water in a 180 gallon African cichlid tank? Alex

This weekend I was able to get my new 135 gallon tank (thanks again to Tony for helping me get things up and running). This is my first tank that I've owned that was drilled for a sump, and being that it is an acrylic tank, I decided to use the sump for filtration. While I've been keeping...

Okay so I'm looking to redo my racks for my 10 30brs and eliminate using sponge filters and heaters in each tank. I'm planning on getting a 100 gal Rubbermaid tub to use as my sump. I already know how my design is going to be but have some questions. First question how many heaters and wattage...

Hey all I am currently setting up a second tank a 150 gal tall question is I recently was given a sump never used a sump before kinda lost has a Hob overflow box 2 outlet but sump only has 1 inlet can I plumb the 2 outlet into one inlet? My pump has plenty of GPH to handle the water flow plus...

So I was noticing my sump was missing some of the "finer" debris in my 125. I am on vacation this week so I decided to spend some time messing around with a way to improve it..... Mag 18 pump to a 4" sch 40 PVC pipe.. Filled with course medium and finer filter media ... Down to a tee fro the out...

I picked up a 20L at the $PG sale for use as a sump on my 55g AC tank. In doing my research I've come across quite a few different options on filtration and want to see what you all have experience with. First, here are my thoughts. I'd like to start the sump off with a trickle down onto...

Hello guys, I'm looking to do a wet dry filter on one of my tanks..just because I want to experiment with different kinds of filtration on my tanks.. How should I know what size of a sump tank to do? Are there rules for that? Or can any size tank work? I'm looking to do this on a 50 gallon...

I decided to model a large sump after the ecosystem miracle mud sump. Found some plans on the net and once I had acquired some acrylic which was 1/2 inch thick. I know that 1/2 inch is crazy but when you get free acrylic beggers cant be choosers. I learned alot about working with acrylic doing...

Looking for suggestions/inputs on building a sump for a 220(not drilled). I've never used a sump before, I've been a canister guy every since I've been in the hobby. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I have a 160gal reef ready tank, dual overflows, and a 45gal sump. I want to run the sump but I'm not 100% on the media for a cichlid tank. Sent from my SAMSUNG GS3 using MonsterAquariaNetwork App

I'm sure that the question has been discussed before about canister filter vs. sump, but I dare ask it again. Here's my setup/needs. Tank is a 90 gallon, not drilled, no current filtration. Inhabitants will be green terrors, jack dempseys, giant danios, and may some sort of pleco. The tank...

Anybody please help me find a check valve for my 1 inch vinyl tubing that I will be using on my mag 9.5 to throttle the pump? I found this but not sure if I can stick the tubing in it and if so what size ? If thats not the one can anyone please show me where I can find a check ball valve...

…Well… I just got myself a used Marineland 200 gal deep dimension. And I have no idea how to go about filtration. The previous owner was using it for saltwater, so he pretty much took out the original overflows, and had 6 more holes professionally drilled (2 for the overflow). All of this...

I have a thread going over in the Old World forum, can't figure out how to edit it, started a new one. I just bought a 125g off of CL's: it came with this sump/trickle filter (24Lx12Dx18H) and a 3 MDQX-SC Little Giant Quiet One Pump: I have this sump (ok, it's dirty, sorry...

So when I bought my 92 gal it came with a sump, and I was obviously excited to learn/screw around with new equipment. After having it set up as a wet/dry with filter floss on top of a drip tray on top of bio-balls, with lava rock rubble, and more floss before the return pump, the water just is...

:confused: would like to make a wet/dry filter for my 185 insted of haveing 5 filters on it 3 ac500 hob and 2 ehime pro 2s and 2 powerheads and aragonits and coral sand with shells and lace rock i havent realy found much thet tells and shows me how to make one and how big it should be i was...