![]() the riparium planters are creating a bottle neck of water flow between the siphon and open standpipe sections. With a 42 inch weir, regular plastic gutter guard didn't have enough rigidity to stay in place so I zip tied it to eggcrate and it works very well at preventing any more unwanted rides but now the bean animal drain system has been negatively affected. all the fish I added to the tank, endlers, otocinclus and a dwarf African frog have taken the water slide down to the sump albeit with no ill effects. So I finally installed gutter guard on the coast to coast overflow. I just had to add a tube that came down to a bowl resting on the substrate and voila! The Simple Solution I came up with yesterday was to use the sump as the mixing container and the pump as a way to fill up the display tank. ![]() I have done several 100% water changes using a python but that was just tap water. I have been racking my brain for a long time trying to figure out how to safely and easily do a water change while combining tap water and RO water in this system. It took forever to realize that the easiest solution was the best plan. I will most likely be using a eheim compact 3000 which pumps 700+ and I am hoping for 400gph into the display tank. one minute it's DEAD quiet and the next I can hear a trickle. I just dont think the bean animal system was designed for such low flow as I am having trouble tuning the sound in the open channel despite having a gate valve on the full siphon channel. The bean animal system works fantastic!! My return pump is only a temporary unit that is is supposed to pump 500gph but when accounting for the return pipes and head is probably closer to 250. stock tanks like this are perfect for this kind of thing. I have plenty of room in there for extra seeded media and equipment and space for breeding boxes etc.Ī sump need not be complicated for fresh water, and certainly doesn't need to be made from glass or expensive acrylic. the sumps main purpose is a water reservoir to increse the total for the system because there is so much soil and hardscape in the tank. water drains down into the bucket, overflows into the sump and makes its way through the poret foam filter and back to the display tank. and in theory I shouldnt have to clean the foam ever! I do not have a high bioload so 10ppi will function just fine as the riparium plants will be the main form of biological filtration in my setup. If needed smaller cubes of 20ppi and 30ppi foam could be used in the same manner within the cube. I made another smaller 5 sided cube out of eggcrate and zipties to fit inside creating a space between that and the poret foam for seeded seachem matrix to serve as further filtration. I took a 13" x 39" x 2" piece of 10ppi Poret foam and cut them to size to make a 4 sided cube and used the left over scs1000 silicone to glue them together and to a 13" x 13" porcelain tile base. I forgot to take pictures of the filter build but it's pretty simple.
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