Advice

Hello all I have recently purchased my first home and will be inheriting a 245 gallon aquarium. Thoughts on filters? Prefer to stay on the cheaper diy side but if it will be easier and make more sense to buy a canister I'm open to doing so any input and adivce is greatly appreciated.

 

Here are some videos for DIY canisters & sumps:



(if you decide to do a sump and the aquarium is not drilled)

HOW TO: Build an aquarium sump - fluidized moving bed filter
HOW TO: Build an aquarium sump - emerged trickle filter

 

You know, considering the cost of discarded DIY things I had to throw out because I messed up, I think would've been cheaper to just buy a canister.

 

Cheapest canister I found that I would feel safe with is around 320 dollars

Call me dumb I know but how would the water from sump get into the tank? I guess I'm wondering how to hook up the intake and out take

 

Oiii. Yeah, maybe you might as well build a sump. My tip then is: when it says it requires electrical parts like pumps etc, get good ones. For filter media, eBay sells 50 bioballs for $2.

Do you intend to drill the tank?

 

There would be a pump (usually a pond pump) in the sump, pumping the water back into the tank through a hose/tube.

 

No I don't trust myself lol

Any recommendations on the pump to use?

 

Don't really have any recommendations, but you would need about 1250 gph.