New grow out system

David M

David M

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Ok, I am busting at the the seams here. Want a good laugh? I am a firm beliver in using what you have and spending as little money as possible, this may cause heart failure for you pro's :D

A lot of this stuff I picked up basically for free, here's what I have to work with: A POS 240 acrylic tank with about 20 holes and a few cracks, will be used as a reserviour to keep total volume up.

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This is the basic idea, 200 gallons actual water volume of usable tank space and another 250 in filtration and reserviour.

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Well David, have to show the first picture to my wife ! She will my stuff is not the real mess she said last week ! :D :D

Anyway, don´t worry I´m just a little jealous for not having my fish room yet... Very nice babies on the other post !!!!!

Anderson.
 
David,

Looking good. I love the look of a tiered setup. They work well space-wise. Sometimes they are harder to clean but that's life.


Oh yeah, I like the milk carton that says, "St. Thomas Daires" :p :p :p :p :p
 
What, no baskets?
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I was planning to do the raceway/ basket thing based on cost, then these tanks popped up so I grabbed 'em. More work to clean but much better for observation. I get just about the same volume in the 4 X 8 footprint so I'm happy :)
 
David,

Interesting, what is the foot print of the Bio tower and are you going to supply air at the base of the tower?

THanks

Steve
 
It's somethingike 18 X 20 and about 48 tall. Again it's not something I would actively seek out but I already have it, price was right (free) and it will work so I'm gonna use it. Yeah I thought I'd drill a hole or two in the sides near the bottom and run some 3 or 4" fans throught it. After it is all set and I have the flow right I will cover the sides with something, I have read that clear sides are not ideal for trickle filters as they only encourage algae to drow on the media.
 
David,

Thanks for the reply. I have not heard that about the side of the Bio tower. I plan on building something similar in size, if I can get the stuff that I need to do it with.

Let us know how things go.

Steve
 
I read that in Hoff's book, the only time I'd ever seen that said but it does make sense. He also suggests as a dirt cheap, opaque wet/ dry just cut the bottoms out of several large styrofoam fish boxes (usually free at lfs) and stack them. That is the kind of thinking I like :D
 
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