The proclear premium 300 has mechanical and biological filtration as do any wet dry sump. What kind of chemical filtration are you looking for and why?
So the blue pad is a mechanical filter as are the sponges inserted in the bubble trap. You can use some polyfil batting as a n additional water polisher in the first stage. As far as using chemi pure elite you could put that in your pump/heater bay if you are actually gonna spend that money.
Not a problem Beth. If I may ask, why are you buying a sump rather than making one? That sump you are looking at is almost $400. You can build one with the same capability or more for $100 or less.
So my sumps are all either tanks I have collected over the years or sterilite storage containers. The sumps made from tanks have baffles the container style dont have baffles. They have trickle towers and a large refugium and equipment space.
Oh yes they work well. I'm at work so cant send pics. A 50 gallon clear tub will run you $40, plus a couple of 3 drawer towers $12, bag of lava rock 10 lbs $10, polyfill batting $10, potscrubbies 20 for like $5.
Here is one from my 75 gallon tanks.
The pvc pipe in top of the wet/dry is the dirty water going in for filtration with holes for the water to trickle down. The other pvc pipe to your right is going into the tank with clean water. Your bins has yr biological chemical and mechanical. The tote has your pump,heater and what everelse you would want. This is unbelievable. Questions: The pvc pipe that goes to yr tank has another pvc pipe attached. Where is that coming from ?
Looks good. How noisy is it with the water trickling down? I have a sump now, it's silent with Herbie drain I have set up. The trickle tower is probably even cheaper to build than my sump, was curious if it was noisy. One thing I sometimes worry about is getting enough oxygen to the BB (using a mattenfilter in my sump). Hasn't been an issue but I am not majorly overstocking either.
